"Paper bundles serve as dance tickets"

Creator

Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wis.)

Date

• December 18, 1941

Summary

• Clarence Thompson (right) and Miss Marcella Peot (left), each wearing a winter coat and holding a bundle of newspapers tied with cord, stand with Sea Scout Marvin Rein next to the display window and entrance of the Carmel Crysp Shop (spelled "Carmel Crisp" in the 1942 city directory) at 1118 1/2 Washington Street in Manitowoc, Wisconsin on December 18, 1941. The Carmel Crysp Shop was one of several confectioneries on Washington Street. Visible through its window are the neon "Carmel Crysp" sign, Christmas decorations, a Coca Cola cooler, and a popcorn machine with a sign reading "Howdy Folks! Our Business is Popping. How's Your's?" The double doors behind Thompson and Peot lead to radio station WOMT's "Town Hall" meeting room on the second floor of 1118 Washington Street, above the Mikadow Theatre. A "waste paper ball" was being held in the Town Hall, with bundles of scrap paper serving as admission tickets. Four orchestras played for the dance, and the local troop of Sea Scouts coordinated collection of the waste paper. This dance kicked off the first World War II scrap paper drive in Manitowoc. This picture was published in "The Manitowoc Herald-Times" December 19, 1941.