Five taverns and a ballpark
The Wouters family has been in the tavern business in and around Green Bay since 1965.
It started in 1965, when Gary and Judy Wouters bought the 616 Club in Green Bay. For several years it was the stomping ground for many of Green Bay's top fast-pitch softball teams, especially friends and family of the champion 616 Club team — Gary "Joe" Wouters was both a player and a manager on that team from 1958 to 1973.
The 616 Club was the first in a line of taverns run by Judy and Gary: The Abbey Bar in 1974, Pulper's Pub in 1977, The Office Lounge in 1977, and the Pla-Mor Lounge in 1988.
In keeping with their love of softball, sports and the tavern business, in 1974 they bought Wouters' Front Tavern and Softball Park — Bill Sundell Memorial Park. Over the years the Wouters children became more involved in the business, everything from ball diamond maintenance to bartending.
Following in the shoes of their parents, in 2001 Mike and Jim Wouters took over the reins of the family business.
This history is Wouters' Front's own, reproduced from woutersfront.com and rearranged into paragraphs. Nothing has been added to it and nothing has been taken out.