Co-op records. 1970-2012.

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Co-op records. 1970-2012.

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Board of directors, annual membership, and collective meeting minutes; financial records; committee reports; daily work logs; correspondence; and flyers of a food cooperative in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A small number of files pertain to the Seward Community Cafe, a cooperatively run cafe located across the street from Seward Community Co-op. Some materials address the "co-op wars" of 1975-1976, in which Seward was deeply entrenched.

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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...

Co-op Organization (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Seward Community Co-op (Minneapolis, Minn.), creator.

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Seward Community Co-op was founded in 1972 by Jerry and Deane Dodge, [Butch?] Hughes, Phyllis Scott, and Don Barton. The co-op was opened in a storefront located at 22nd Street and Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The co-op's founders secured a $3,000 grant from JUMP, a coalition of area Protestant churches supporting urban renewal projects, to purchase the former Superette building. Money was raised from community members and through the Model Cities program to purchase the...

Cashman, Leo B.

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Park Pantry (Saint Louis Park, Minn.).

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Seward Community Cafe (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Hickman, Howard.

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