Holiday Decorations
December 16, 1976
Seventeen Christmas ornament strings were stretched across Main Street and hung up for the holidays on Monday and Tuesday, December 6th and 7th.
These ornaments are normally put up three days before Thanksgiving, but the forklift equipment that is usually used to put the ornaments up was considered unsafe this year. So North State Tree Surgery and Pest Control was hired out of Janesville to put them up.
Three strings will not be put up because of the removal of wooden telephone poles from Main and the new steel light poles have not yet been put in. Their removal is part of a removal improvement project to get the wooden telephone poles off of Main Street.
Pictured above: John Jones, owner of North State Tree Service (above left) and David Hughes, city street department employee string up Christmas ornaments above Main Street, while Bo Markam, also with the street department, watches below. (Advocate photo).
