Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Neumann. Together they discuss resort in Minnesota duirng the 1940s. Resorts discussed include: Bayview, Tip Top, and Interlachen.
Interview with Mr. Covel. His parents were Sydney and Florence Steele Covel. His father worked in the Hudson Cheese Factory and his mother worked as a housekeeper for the owners of the Cheese Factory. His paternal grandparents homesteaded on Union Lake.
Interview with Minnie Brakken (Mrs. Anton Brakken). Minnie was born in Carlos Township in 1901. Her parents were Ira Wheeler and Lena Engkvist Wheeler. She discusses life on a farm with 11 children, gardening, canning, and playing ball with her father. She also discusses the first Carlos, Minnesota Post Office of 1928 which was also the Brakken's family home.
Interview wtih Myrtle Blade (Mrs. Carl Blade). She came to Holmes City in 1926 and operated the Blade Store in Holmes City until 1969. The Blade Store was a hardware and grocery store. Myrtle discusses making stove pipes and putting screens in milk strainers as a large part of the hardware business. Her husband Carl was born in Sweden in 1891. They met at the Fergus Falls State Hospital where both of them were working.
Interview with Nellie (Jerry) Hoffman. She relates the history of her family at Indian Mounds, including the University of Minnesota excavation of second largest Indian Mound Minnesota and the history of woodlands Indians in the area.
Interview with John Klukken. John was born in 1887 in Norway. His family immigrated in 1900 to Osakis, Minnesota. His wife was Helga Vangsted, Klukken. John served as pastor in Enderlin, North Dakota in 1916-1918. He discusses his reasons for leaving Norway, how he become a citizen, his church activities, politics, and Norwegian customs.
Interview with Robert and Ruth Hunter Hultman. The Hultmans were wwners of the Viking Trail Resort. They purchased Camp Preston in the mid 1950s. Robert continued to work at newspaper while Ruth ran the resort.
Interview with Teddy Kaldahl and Harold Brundin. Tuddy Kaldahl, went to Banff and Quebec to teach skiing. He returned to rent the Ballroom (located in Glenwood, Minnesota) in 1923. The Lakeside Pavilion was built in in 1908 along withthe ski jump. Dances were hled on Wednesday and Friday (featuring modern dance). Old-Time dances were held on Fridays. Alabamians was one of the bands they discussed. The drummer was Cab Callaway. Together they also discusses bands, dances, and costs.
Conversation between Gordon Hobart and Walter Leuthner. Gordon Hobart raised turkeys. He also started and ran Interlachen. His father owned a meat market. Reminder that no frozen meat was available at that time; but every resort and farm had an icehouse. The iceman delivered to residential iceboxes. Refrigerators were not locally available until the end of the 1920s. Meat was only available from local farmers; but vegetables would come in on refrigerated railroad cars and were dropped off in each town. They discuss business local practices. The grocery store would pay they bakery at end of season since most local people bartered products at grocery store. They provide reminiscences about: Terry Weatherman, England Grocery, cigar factory, sawmills, ice cream man, fishing and "fish" stories, Minnissouri Club, fishing guides, school boy capers, duck hunting, and how the annual wheat crop determined Alexandria's prosperity.
Interview with Walter Leuthner. Walter was born on November 30l, 1894. His parents were Joseph and Versa Leuthner. His father had a bakery business. Walter started working as a fishing guide and began a fishing guide business in 1927, working out of Maryland Hotel. He discusses guiding on Douglas County Lakes and the tourists he guided.
View of the Geneva Beach Hotel from Lake Geneva. There are people standing at the top of the stairs and down by the water. A sailboat, the dock and gazebo are all visible. In 1896, J.L. Dickinson acquired the Alexandria Hotel at Geneva Beach from Mr. Letson, an early resort builder, and changed the name to the Geneva Beach Hotel. The hotel burned down on September 2, 1911.
Four pictures divide up the postcard: Exterior view of the hotel; interiors of the private dining room and main dining room; as well an interior of the main lobby.
View of a stairway, dock and boats tied to the dock. There are people in the boats, a man sitting on the dock and a man sitting on the stairs. (On back: No. 3. Printed in Germany).
