View of Lakeside Pavilion, 1909. This pavilion eplaced an earlier open air pavilion. Charley and Pearl Hamilton announced their marriage in this note to Miss Clara Kotura of Thornton, Iowa.
Clara Swanson recalls: C.A. Swanson bought half interest in the Rogers Hotel with Dr. Fjelstad in 1914. Mr. Swanson started the bakery in the basement of the hotel. Art Malmberg, in the window, was the bookkeeper.
Clara Swanson recalls: This is one of the large bakery trucks and the small advertising trucks. The advertising truck would hand out small sample loaves of bread to children.
Exterior view of the Swanson Bakery. Beside Swanson's Bakery the open lot was home to a miniature golf course. A close look reveals several players. At the center of the picture one can see the cornice and flag pole of the Glenwood State Bank, 1907, on the north side of Minnesota Avenue.
Interior view of the Glenwood Bakery / Swanson Bakery packaging department showing loaves, bagging machines and the pass-through window to the bakery sales floor.
Delivery truck for miniature sample loaves of Swanson's Sonny Boy Bread. Shorty Johnson holds three inch sample loaves and an unknown man holds a full size loaf.
Delivery truck for miniature sample loaves of Swanson's Sonny Boy Bread; Shorty Johnson, driver; Sample loaves were given to children as a marketing technique.