Courtesy of the Neenah Historical Society.
Wisconsin Avenue looking west toward Bergstrom Paper Company, circa 1928.
“In 1928, the city of Neenah was standardizing the placement of ornamental lighting downtown,” Miranda Ridener, Executive Director of the Neenah Historical Society, says. “The clock stood two feet from where a new light was to be placed. The talk of removal concerned enough citizens that Mayor George E. Sande took up the matter with the board of public works to find a solution. The clock was seen from long distances down Wisconsin Avenue, and many people used that clock in the morning to make sure they were on time to their jobs.
“The clock was saved. During World War Two, the clock stopped working because of broken parts they could not get due to shortages. It disappears from pictures in the 1960s, but I have not found any newspaper record of its removal.”
