Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II: Interview with Martha Kufner Schmaltz

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II: Interview with Martha Kufner Schmaltz (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Martha Kufner Schmaltz was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended St. Agnes Catholic School, Wilson Junior High School, and Mechanic Arts High School. She joined the Marine Corps and was trained in Motor Transport. After the war she married and held several jobs before retiring. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Living conditions in the basement of a duplex; the Catholic school experience; recreational activities: going to silent films, playing softball on competitive teams; holiday celebrations; 4th of July, birthdays, Christmas; life during the Great Depression and going on welfare; bottling homemade beer during Prohibition; working for Montgomery Wards, Northwest Airlines, and Northwest Aeronautics; life in the Marine Corps: training, playing on post sports teams; life as a part of a young, married couple; getting involved with bowling and the accomplishments that followed; employment situations and the real estate market during the 1950s and 1960s; starting a family business.

Dates

• 09/20/2007 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Schmaltz, Martha Kufner
• interviewer: Bekke, Douglas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 115
• Accession Number: AV2008.26.31

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II' <OH 115>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassettes 80 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 144 minutes length

Subjects

How can we help?

• Help / About Collections Online
• Learn about the Collections
• Contact the Gale Family Library for help with research, orders, and use/licensing
• Have feedback or comments on the new Collections Online system? Please fill in the Collections Online Feedback Form.