January 8, 1940, The Daily News-Times
My attention was taken by the item in the midst of the "20 years Ago" section about the rumored sale of the Hotel Landgraf property for use as a hospital. As regular readers of this blog know, this hotel was succeeded by the Brin Building and Theater in 1928. My mind reels at the thought of a hospital at the intersection of Main Street and Tayco. How might things have changed for the city's fortunes if they'd had a medical facility at that location? What would that have done to traffic patterns? What about the surrounding retail and residential space? And I wonder who this mysterious "Menasha man" was. One can play the "what if" game indefinitely, but it does make one wonder.
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