WACO
Updated 241 days ago
- Age: 73 years
- ID: 9375132/141
2300 N US-169 Mankato, MN 56001
Waco Scaffolding & Supply Company is a supplier of scaffolding and scaffolding accessories as well as contractor tools and equipment that serves the Mankato area, Southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. With an ever expanding inventory of sales and rental items, a professional, helpful and experience staff, we strive to exceed the expectations of our customers... In 1950 after retiring and closing his butcher shop, Leonard C. Diegnau was bored. He responded to an advertisement in a Minneapolis newspaper for a salesman to sell steel tubular frame scaffolding for a new manufacturer, the Wilson Albrecht Company. Taking the W from Wilson, the A from Albrecht and the CO from company, the name was now shortened to Waco. As Leonard pulled a trailer load of scaffolding behind his Oldsmobile to various work sites around the five-state area, it became clear to him that the cost of the scaffold system didn't set well with the smaller contractors. He asked if they would prefer to use the..