Co-op records. 1971-2006.

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Co-op records. 1971-2006.

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Financial records, collective log books and meeting minutes,correspondence, flyers, store operations files, histories and reminiscences, andnewspaper clippings of the longest running food cooperative in the Twin CitiesMetropolitan Area. Also included are records of several affiliated worker andservice cooperatives that the North Country Co-op engendered: North CountryHardware Store, North Country General Store, North Country Bookstore, North CountryCo-op Library, and the North Country Development Fund. There is also materialpertaining to the co-op wars and the dissolution of the People's Warehouse(Minneapolis, Minn.).

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People's Warehouse of the North Country (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Distributing Alliance of the Northcountry Cooperatives (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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North Country Department Store (Minneapolis, Minn).

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North Country Bookstore (Minneapolis, Minn).

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North Country Co-op Library (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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North Country Co-op (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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In February of 1970 West Bank (Minneapolis, Minnesota) resident Diane Lynn Szostek traveled to San Francisco, California to visit David Krall, who was sharing an apartment with fellow West Bankers Susie Shroyer, Keith Ruona, and Eddie Felien. While in San Francisco Diane's friends took her to a small, local bulk foods cooperative store. Later that summer Shroyer returned to the West Bank and soon after had the idea of opening a bulk foods cooperative like the one she experienced in ...

North Country Hardware Store (Minneapolis, Minn).

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Co-op Organization (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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North Country Development Fund (Minneapolis, Minn).

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All Co-op Assembly (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Olsen, Kris (Kristoffer Edward), 1946-1998,

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In the summer of 1970 Susie Shroyer returned to the West Bank (Minneapolis, Minn.) from San Francisco, California. After her return Shroyer had the idea of opening a bulk foods cooperative like the one she experienced in San Francisco. What she needed was space at little or no cost. Diane Lynn Szostek, who had met Shroyer while visiting mutual friend David Krall in San Francisco during February of 1970, and Alvin Odermann volunteered their back porch and basement as a storage and di...

North Country General Store (Minneapolis, Minn).

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