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WALSER CRANE SERVICE
WALSER CRANE SERVICE. On June 29, 2006, Bob Walser stepped away from the family business responsible for relocating enormous objects--including Dubuque's TOWN CLOCK in 1971.
The family business began 80 years ago when his father began hauling furniture in an old bus. He added a crane service in 1948. Bob Walser began working for his father at the age of fifteen and full-time when he was eighteen. In 1971 Bob became the point-man when the company was given the job of moving the Town Clock fro a building at 825 Main to the new TOWN CLOCK PLAZA. The elder Walser died before the job was completed by his son.
Walser Crane Service merged with another crane company and the company's location on East 19th Street was remain open under the name--A-1 Crane and Machinery.
The 1983 through 1993 Dubuque City Directory listed 525 E. 19th.
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Source:
Weinhold, Josh, "Crane Operator Walser Retires From High-Profile Job," Telegraph Herald, June 29, 2006, p. 1