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Follow Us
Through a Short Pictorial History
of our company. |
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August Kaspar Pictured
in his backyard shop with workman and son, Arthur Kaspar, (left)
making corn shuck baskets. |
| Model T Truck used in
early sales calls by Arthur Kaspar circa 1924. Here he is
crossing a river in Arkansas on a hand operated ferry. This
was not the trip someone took a shot at him. |

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First building built
circa 1930, still in use today. A big gamble during
depression days. |
| Fred Breithaupt making
gym, baskets, one of Kaspar Wire Works all time best
sellers. Still being manufactured for most American schools
today. |

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Wire Rack using Bassick
casters, a company purchased by KWW in 1996. |
| The Kaspar Push-Away
Cart. One of the first "nesting carts" in
production. This model followed the earlier
"Carry" grocery basket. |

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KWW gym baskets kept
getting stronger with the times. |
| Manufacturing an early
version of newspaper racks around 1956. Don Kaspar, current
president of Kaspar Wire Works, is shown center. |

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Don and Arthur Kaspar
with the 20,000th rack sold November, 1967. The One
Millionth rack was sold July 1, 1985. |
| The early 1980's brought
the USA Today boom to Shiner. |
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