Lloyd Witt reminisces about his family's blacksmithing activities at their shop on Plank Road now called Menasha Avenue. In its heyday, Plank Road, as the shortest route into Manitowoc, was a toll road which collected 10 cents per farmer or traveler per trip.|00:00:00-Part 1 Introduction00:00:22-Part 2 Witt family background in blacksmithing from 1909; work before and after WWII duty as a Seabee00:01:36-Part 3 Welding and blacksmithing00:02:56-Part 4 Kellner’s Corners blacksmith shop and customers on Menasha Avenue; tollgate00:05:00-Part 5 J.J. Stangle supplied the blacksmith shops in Manitowoc.00:05:52-Part 6 Apprenticeship with father; repaired parts00:08:06-Part 7 Work for Manitowoc Shipbuilding00:09:12-Part 8 Blacksmithing processes; making tools; chain links00:12:38-Part 9 Shoeing horses, mules, and oxen00:16:28-Part 10 Blacksmithing during the depression; bartering; volume of work00:18:11-Part 11 Work during the depression, WPA, and World War II with less help and fewer supplies00:20:11-Part 12 Tighten wooden wheels00:24:55-Part 13 1900 Blacksmith shop at Pinecrest Historical Village Walking tour of Pinecrest Historical Village00:26:30-Part 14 Thompson Cabin – Norwegian builder00:28:28-Part 15 Pinecrest Historic Village of Manitowoc depicts Manitowoc about 1900.00:28:57-Part 16 Luebke Cabin (Kunze House) – German builder00:30:38-Part 17 Mrs. Vetting Home (Sorenson House) - 185400:32:55-Part 18 Schoolhouse (Shadyside School) – 1870 – being reconstructed at the Village00:35:28-Part 19 Collins Depot - 1887, locomotive, flat car and tender