Rising Rapidly

September 16, 1967, Appleton Post-Crescent

We first looked at this tower back in 2013 on the blog: 

http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2013/02/island-water-tower-takes-shape.html.  In this stage of construction, it looked similar to the Saturn rocket that took us to the moon.  But while it was built adjacent to the Washington Street parking lot, I always thought of it as an Ahnaip Street thing, for whatever that's worth.  And with the elimination of the old Second Street water tower in recent years, this is what's left to announce to the world that you've crossed over into Menasha.