For $38, consumers can buy an authentic 6-foot aluminum Festivus pole from the Wagner Companies on Brown Deer Road. They also feature a smaller, 2-foot, 8-inch table-top model.
The company began making Festivus poles late last year, and since October 2006, has been selling 15 polls per day. According to Tony Leto, executive vice president of sales and marketing, there were 30,000 visits to the company's Web site the week before Dec. 23, the unofficial Festivus holiday.
Official support for this Wisconsin manufacturer was undercut by controversy.
Leto said the company gave a pole to Gov. Jim Doyle, a Seinfeld enthusiast.
But following the recent racial remarks of comedian Michael Richards, who played Kramer on the sitcom, Doyle is disassociating himself from "Seinfeld." He won't be celebrating Festivus this year.
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