Melodies for Christmas

 

                                                                                    December 19, 1924, Menasha Record

The Menasha Music Shoppe was located at 177 Main Street, which has the same address as the Hotel Menasha.  And since the hotel barber shop and cigar stand had the same address as well, there must have been some extra space for a purveyor of fine music to sell their wares.  The artists featured here are not household names by today's hindsight, though I cannot vouch for their popularity in 1924.  For all I know, they could have been very popular. Radio had not hit its heyday as of yet so as years go on, more and more Americans will be exposed to commercial radio big bands and orchestras and that will fuel another rise in record sales.