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—Methodist—
Author:
s. n.
Creator:
First Methodist Episcopal Church (La Crosse, Wis.)
Author:
Emma Salzer Hallauer?
Creator:
John Adam Salzer 1823-1892
Emma Salzer Hallauer
Emma Salzer Hallauer
Author:
Robert R. Lorenz
Creator:
Robert R. Lorenz
Description:
A short history of the early German-American Methodist farming families who settled in the Town of Shelby, Chipmunk Coulee area of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, in the mid-nineteenth century. Family names include Hiekel, Kunerth, Bendel, Tietz and Starch.
Author:
Ironwood Press, Inc.
Creator:
Wesley United Methodist Church (La Crosse, Wis.)
Description:
First Methodist Episcopal Church -- Caledonia Street Methodist Episcopal Church -- Onalaska Methodist Episcopal Church -- First German Methodist Episcopal Church -- Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church -- West Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church -- Second German Methodist Episcopal Church -- The General Conference.
Includes business advertisements
ocm61460845 pages are not in correct order; some duplicates
ocm61460845 pages are not in correct order; some duplicates
Author:
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
Description:
Bud Miyamoto (b. 1945) spends a majority of his interview remembering his early life in La Crosse, specifically life on the North Side as a Japanese American. Topics include but are not limited to: North Side neighborhood, his (white) mother's background and employment at the Auto-Lite factory, father’s service in the 100th Infantry Battalion during WWII and journey from Hawaii to La Crosse, Camp McCoy, local businesses (the Sweet Shop, the Country Kitchen, and the Riviera Theatre), social life and entertainment (school dances, drag races, movies, county fair, circus, and picnics), recreation and sports (swimming at the North Side Beach, softball at Copeland Park, and fishing on Black River), student rivalries between Central High School and Logan High School, health remedies, religion (St. Luke’s Methodist Church), anti-Japanese racism in town, Black Americans in La Crosse, Moss family, working-class cultures on North Side, Auto-Lite factory, community grief from 1959 lay-offs at Auto-Lite, employment (Manke Hardware Store, M. Lokken & Son Grocery, Neumeister’s Butcher Shop, Guggenbuehl and Nekola, Nelson’s Clothing Store, and Berg’s Pharmacy, Milwaukee Sentinel, the Sweet Shop, andSandy’s fast food), President John F. Kennedy, 1965 Flood, Lower North Side train depot, telephones, medical industry, and local radio.