A Downtown Hospital?

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.