July 15, 1958, Twin City News-Record
We take what little victories we can find in the Menasha area, be it touting our recreational opportunities or bragging about our "professional personalities" as it says here. The Badger Highways quarry was a mainstay for sneaking into, as my grandparents on Airport Road lived virtually behind the quarry. Illegal or not, I have fond memories of sneaking into there with my older brother on Sunday afternoons as our parents visited with our grandparents.
True but funny story. Our house was a stone's throw away from what was then known as the Courtney and Plummer quarry on Tullar Road in Neenah. That was our playground. My younger brother, when he was less than 10 years old in the second half of the 1960's, would go everyday to the quarry during the week when they were working because he was fascinated with seeing the big quarry trucks. He would always stand just outside the entrance gate. All of the truck drivers would always wave to him. Then one day a pick up truck pulled up to him with two quarry workers inside and told him to get in. The poor kid didn't no any better and got in. Once inside they told him they need to go to the other side of the quarry because they would be blasting. When the blast was done they brought him right back to the quarry gate entrance to continue watching. Can you imagine something like that happening in this day and age!
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