A Tale of a Pail

 

We've covered a lot of this in previous posts, but the above is a 1931 trade ad for pails manufactured by the Menasha Wooden Ware.  Pails were made until the late 1950s, and the Wooden Ware eventually became the Menasha Corporation.  Pails and kegs and other wooden storage containers went the way of the dinosaur as the industry discovered new ways to do shipping, in particular, the corrugated carton.  This linked post from 2012 shows the group of men who were, indeed, the last of the pail makers:  https://menashabook.blogspot.com/2012/07/last-of-pail-makers.html