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Meyer & Krueger Meat
Market
Royal Meat Market
405 E Main
c.1935
-- -- MEYER
& KRUEGER MEAT MARKET
405 East Main Street
Leo E. Krueger behind the counter
1957
01 06 J.
M. MEYER RETIREMENT
A veteran Watertown meat market
operator, J. M. Meyer, 823 Cole Street, of the Royal Market at 405 Main Street,
has retired. Mr. Meyer, who has been in
the meat trade for 53 years, plans to devote himself to some travel, fishing
and following his favorite sport - baseball.
For more than 33 years he has been engaged in the Royal Market in
Watertown, having taken in as his partner, shortly after he opened the
business, L. E. Krueger of this city.
The two have operated the business since 1923.
1967
01 05 ROYAL MEAT MARKET HAS NEW OWNER /
Lowell Pritchard Purchases Place from Kruegers
The Royal Meat Market, 405 Main Street,
one of Watertown's oldest and well established business places, is now under
new ownership. It was purchased by
Lowell Pritchard from Erwin E., Leo E., and Robert C. Krueger who have operated
the business for many years. Robert C.
Krueger has entered a new line of employment, while Leo and Erwin Krueger will
continue to work at the market for at least a month to help Mr. Pritchard in
the business transition and familiarize him with the various sausage recipes,
etc.
Mr. Pritchard said today that he
will continue to operate the business under its long established name and will
continue the same business policies and maintain the same high standards that
have made it a successful business, serving a wide area of customers both in
the city and surrounding areas.
He said he will continue to
provide the high quality of cured and fresh meats which were the rule of the
previous operators. The market will also
continue to specialize in sugar-cured hams, bacon and home-made sausages.
Mr. Pritchard recently completed
seven years with the Equity Livestock Cooperative as a slaughter livestock
auctioneer for five and a half years and one and a half years as the market
manager at Johnson Creek. He left the
position to purchase and operate the market here.
Fred Hinzmann,
Johnson Creek, formerly the yard foreman at the Equity Livestock Market of
Johnson Creek, will be employed at the Royal Market.
05 20 VIENNESE SAUSAGE-MAKER JOINS ROYAL MARKET
Leopold Chocholous,
a Vienna, Austria sausage maker, with 49 years experience,
has joined the staff of the Royal Market at 405 Main Street. His duties will be to turn out high grade
sausages.
Born in Vienna in 1905, he went
to work at the age of 13 as an apprentice in the renowned Johann Franke Sausage
Firm. In 1933 he was elevated to the
position of manager and first sausage butcher.
Since coming: to the United States in 1952 he has worked for
three sausage firms, most recently for the Elements Sausage Co. of Milwaukee. In all instances, his work and products have
been widely acclaimed.
The Royal Market plans to carry
on the same Old World recipes already made famous by the Kruegers
and a former partner of the late Jules Meyer, Lowell Pritchard, the present
owner of the market, stated.
The Royal Market plans to add new
products such as an old world Braunschweiger in a
natural casing, smoked bratwurst, blood and tongue sausage and other lines of
sausages.
Wallace Block of the former
Block's Market has also joined the Royal Market staff on a part-time basis.
The Royal Market at the present
time, in addition to its home cured hams and bacon produces 11 different kinds
of sausage, besides killing its own hogs and poultry.
1973
1974
-- -- EXPANSION, BUILT BY MAAS BROS.
Cross Reference:
Bob Burbach, formerly of
Royal Meat, with Eske's Stick ‘N Brick, 1983
Royal Meat Market 1957c,
405 E Main, 1950s-70s city assessor form, WHS_006_052a
Royal Meat Market 1957c,
405 E Main, 1950s-70s city assessor image, WHS_006_052b
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