Still serving the industrial, institutional, health care, food service, manufacturing, professional, municipality and school markets, United Paper is a wholesale distributor and has been locally owned and operated since 1921 in Menasha. The photo above is their old location; I grew up in the shadow of this building, which is just north of the old Coonen's gas station at Third and DePere Streets and just before the railroad tracks.
Thanks David. I worked at UP the summers of 1959 and 1960 along with two fellow SMHS grads, Bob "Marty" Mortell and Gary Bately. Hard work in warehouse. Best shape I was ever in Harvey Beiblein owned UP. They must have had good work men's medical insurance. Unloading boxcars with 600 lb rolls of paper stacked 3 high with only truck tires and a crowbar required skill and lack of brains on our part.
ReplyDeleteI believe my uncle worked here as well, Dan Schweitzer!!
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