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==Comprehensive History==
 
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Originally opened on August 1, 1937 by L. Gordon Watson, the locker plant was purchased by Don Werner on October 1, 1957, and renamed Werner's Frozen Food Center. At that time the plant included "1000 individual frozen food lockers and additional bulk storage space" as well as a smoke room for smoking hams, bacon, turkey, and other meats<ref>"Local Locker Plant," Wayne County Topics, January 1959, p.5</ref>. The plant also sold and processed all types of meats as well as offered customers the possibility of freezing vegetables in bulk.
  
 
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Revision as of 11:01, 24 January 2022

Werner's Frozen Food Center
Type Butcher Shops; Meat Markets
Industry Retail
Fate Dissolved
Headquarters Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations 0000 South St., Wooster, Ohio
Area served Wayne County, Ohio

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Comprehensive History

Originally opened on August 1, 1937 by L. Gordon Watson, the locker plant was purchased by Don Werner on October 1, 1957, and renamed Werner's Frozen Food Center. At that time the plant included "1000 individual frozen food lockers and additional bulk storage space" as well as a smoke room for smoking hams, bacon, turkey, and other meats[1]. The plant also sold and processed all types of meats as well as offered customers the possibility of freezing vegetables in bulk.

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  • Wooster, Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration, June 14-21, 1958, p. 99.

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References

  1. "Local Locker Plant," Wayne County Topics, January 1959, p.5

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