March 26, 1941, Appleton Post-Crescent
Though headquartered at Jandrey's in neighboring Neenah, Menasha gets equal billing as a market for this spring style. With war rumbling in Europe, America was less than nine months from entering the conflict and to focus on something so trivial, seems bittersweet, knowing now the hardships Americans would face in the coming years. Perhaps it was a prelude of the heroic efforts we all would anticipate, as it seems that heroes wear capes, at least in the comic books! Just ask any kid from that era about Superman, who was all the rage.
Jandrey's was a fascinating store for me as a kid. They didn't have much merchandise I was interested in, but whenever a transaction occurred, the clerk would put the money in a little metal box and send it on a track system up to the office where the change was counted out. Then the box would come zipping back with the customer's change and sales slip. I always wondered how the box knew how to get back to the clerk that sent it up.
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