Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Lottie Neal

Titles: Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Lottie Neal (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Lottie Neal was born in Arkansas. She and her husband, Bishop Neal, lived on Rondo Avenue in St. Paul and owned a building that housed various businesses and some apartments. Her husband also worked for the railroad. Mrs. Neal worked in a grocery store they owned and later for the school system. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Life on Rondo Avenue; property they owned; favorite places on Rondo Avenue; how neighborhood has changed; how people have changed; how the freeway changed the neighborhood; reactions to the freeway; work managing the building and the grocery store; work with public school; activities for children before the freeway was built; murder and suicide on their property and its impact on her husband.

Dates

• 05/23/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Neal, Lottie
• interviewer: Kretsedemas, Philip

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 100
• Accession Number: AV2003.65.12

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Our Gathering Places Oral History Project' <OH 100>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 14 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:39:16 running time

Subjects

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