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Downtown 1958
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Valley Plumbing & Heating Supply
A freight engine belching smoke, makes its way down River Street, between Tayco and Little Lake Butte des Morts. Some of the other businesses along River Street were Marathon Paper, George Whiting Paper, and the Whitmore Machine and Foundry Company.
This was before my time because I don't remember steam engines being used. However, I walked by this location at least twice every day from 1960-68 going back and forth to St. Patrick Elementary School. In those days, there was a long, two-story building at about the location of the steam engine. One of the railroads used to deliver tank cars of solidified wax to the building. The Marathon (well, actually, American Can) workers closed the doors and used steam to heat the exterior of the cars to melt the wax. The wax was then pumped across River Street to the main plant to be used to coat paper. The railroad guys who delivered the tank cars used to have lunch at the taverns along Tayco Street.
Stared at that very location many hours in the 80's, standing in the road at Washington and River streets.
ReplyDeleteThis was before my time because I don't remember steam engines being used. However, I walked by this location at least twice every day from 1960-68 going back and forth to St. Patrick Elementary School. In those days, there was a long, two-story building at about the location of the steam engine. One of the railroads used to deliver tank cars of solidified wax to the building. The Marathon (well, actually, American Can) workers closed the doors and used steam to heat the exterior of the cars to melt the wax. The wax was then pumped across River Street to the main plant to be used to coat paper. The railroad guys who delivered the tank cars used to have lunch at the taverns along Tayco Street.
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