East Side Oral History Project: Interview with Lucille Carlstrom

Titles: East Side Oral History Project: Interview with Lucille Carlstrom (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Lucille Carlstrom was married to Russell Carlstrom whose family has owned a fuel business on the East Side for four generations. Her own career was in nursing at St. John's, Anchor and Gillette Hospitals. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Lucille's time as a nursing student in St. Paul. Detailed description of the life of a nurse and nursing student. The start of A.A. Carlstrom and Sons in 1889. Some information on A.A. Carlstrom. Anecdotes about Swedish culture on the East Side and in Swede Hollow. The expansion of the business to include men's clothing and uniforms. The contraction to just uniforms. The decline of the East Side in the 1950s as people moved to the suburbs. Stories about Swedish food and cooking. The evolution of home heating from wood to coal to oil. Other business run by the Carlstrom family. Other immigrant groups on the East Side including the Irish and Polish.

Dates

• 06/26/1991 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Carlstrom, Lucille
• interviewer: Galt, Margot Fortunato

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 99
• Accession Number: AV2003.92.6

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'East Side Oral History Project' <OH 99>

Quantity: 1.5 hours sound cassette 20 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:32:31 running time

Subjects

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