November 13, 1963 Appleton Post-Crescent
With all the focus on President Kennedy and 1963 this month, I decided to look back fifty years and see what was going on in the area. I found the above article about the Little Lake Butte des Morts bridge progress. We'd touched upon it back on November 1st when I featured an article citing the formation of a committee in the summer of 1962 to promote the idea of a bridge.
This story indicates that Menasha had been waiting for such a bridge since 1928 or so. Interesting. Guess my research isn't finished yet.
Not sure how "townsmen" thought the bridge would help downtown Menasha. It's an obvious bypass to Appleton, where everyone was already shopping in 1963. Go figure.
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