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Title: Isadore Berman Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Isadore Berman was born February 22, 1924. He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1941, served in WW II, earned a BA from Grinnell College in 1949 and, later, an MBA from Columbia University. He is continuing in the family scrap metal business. He and his wife, Ida, have a son and a daughter.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23300

Title: Jim George Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Jim George was born and raised in Iowa receiving a degree in journalism from Coe College. He spent four years in the United States Air Force in World War II. Returning to Iowa after the war he was the editor of newspapers in Eldora, Grinnell, and Montezuma, and then worked for four years as sports information director at Grinnell College. He then took a position at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company where he spent 25 years as public relations director. After retiring from GMRC he continued to work for them part time for another eight years. In 1985 he returned to Grinnell College and served as sports information director until 1999. He and his wife, Isabel, had three daughters. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26719

Title: Larsen's Motel
Description: Color postcard of Larsen's Motel, which was one mile east of Grinnell, Iowa, on Highway 6, in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. and Mrs. Don Larsen, owners and operators. Photo, art work and produced by Douglas R. Smith, Washington, D.C. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11642

Title: Leo Flanagan Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Leo was born in Sully, Iowa, on January 19, 1908. He farmed, worked in service stations for 21 years, and in automobile sales and management for 20 years. He and his wife, Blanche, had three children.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23302

Title: Lucille "Sid" Potts Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Lucille McDowell was born in Grinnell on October 19, 1910. A1928 graduate of Grinnell High School, she attended business college in Quincy, Illinois. In 1937 she married Dick Potts. She began her banking career in 1929 as a bookkeeper at Citizen's National Bank (later Poweshiek County National Bank and then Wells Fargo). She retired in 1975 at which time she was an officer and board member.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23314

Title: Main Street between Commercial and 4th
Description: View of the west side of Main Street between Commercial Street and 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in the mid-1950s. Duffy's Tavern (829 Main St.), established 1957, is on the right; P & M Cafe (825 Main St., run by Peg and Merl Masteller) is at the left. 827A Main Street is Rawlings TB Barber Shop. 827B Main Street was F&R Used Furniture in 1959 and C.H. King Used Furniture in 1962. Grinnell Feed and Grain is in the background at the left. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6475

Title: Margaret Arnold Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: The daughter of Dr. O.F. and Laura Parish, Margaret was born in Grinnell on June 14, 1906. She graduated from Grinnell College and taught fourth grade in Flint, Michigan, for a short time. She owned and operated Arnold's Shoe Store in Grinnell for 53 years and retired in 1989.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23299

Title: Mathews' Rexall Drug Store Pharmacy Staff
Description: Pharmacy staff of Mathews' Rexall Drug Store in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1950. From left to right: Jack Crosson, Earl Mathews (owner), and Harold Stebbin.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6183

Title: Max Smith Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Max Smith was born in 1918 and raised on the family farm in Marshall County. He graduated from Chillicothe Business College in Missouri before working as a hog buyer for the Rath Packing Company in Waterloo. In 1941 he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he served in the European and North African theatres and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he completed his bachelors degree at Iowa State University in 1949 and moved to Grinnell in 1950 where he served as President of the Poweshiek County National Bank from 1966 through 1983. He and his wife, Delores, had two children. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26715

Title: McCormick Farm Equipment Store
Description: Matchbook cover advertising the McCormick Farm Equipment store in Montezuma, Iowa. The outside of the matchbook has images of International trucks; the inside has the name and address of the local dealer. Matchbook produced by Universal Match Corp.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12533