Oral history interview with Helen and Ed Banasik / interviewed by Susan Dal Santo
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- 1987
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Mr. and Mrs. Banasik discuss their marriage and family life in La Crosse, Wisconsin. They describe work, home, recreation, and entertainment activities. They also comment on changes in society and politics. The following topics are also included in the interview: Childhood background -- Meeting each other -- Finding a home -- Wages after World War II -- Journeyman sheet metal apprenticeship -- Buying first home -- Building own home -- First telephone -- Children -- Life before and after children -- Employment, young people -- Railroad employment -- La Crosse railroads -- Neighborhood development -- Family Picnics -- Change in television culture -- World War II enlistment -- Atom bomb Japan -- Bomb shelters -- Korean War, opinion -- Korean War, economy -- Buying habits -- John F. Kennedy, opinion -- Food service, UW La Crosse, 1964 -- Fair grounds near UW La Crosse -- UW La Crosse campus expansion -- Goose Town neighborhood
Interviews form basis for student reports cataloged separately.; Forms part of: La Crosse Urban History Project, 1945-1960, conducted by students of History 325, American Urban History, at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1987.
00:00:20—Childhood background | 00:01:05—Meeting each other | 00:01:45—Finding a home | 00:02:25—Wages after World War II | 00:02:50—Journeyman sheet metal apprenticeship | 00:03:55—Buying first home | 00:04:33 -- Building own home | 00:06:48—First telephone | 00:08:00—Children | 00:09:00—Life before and after children | 00:12:50—employment, young people | 0:13:30—Railroad employment | 00:14:35—La Crosse railroads | 00:15:40—Neighborhood development | 00:16:30—Family Picnics | 00:18:01—Change in television culture | 00:19:07—World War II enlistment | 00:21:25—atom bomb Japan | 00:23:25—bomb shelters | 00:25:13—Korean War, opinion | 00:26:24—Korean War, economy | 00:28:26—Buying habits | 00:29:27—John F. Kennedy, opinion | 00:30:25—food service, UW La Crosse, 1964 | 00:32:40—Fair grounds near UW La Crosse | 00:33:40- UW La Crosse campus expansion | 00:35:05—Goose Town neighborhood
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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- Banasik, Ed -- Interviews
Banasik, Helen -- Interviews
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Families
Recreation -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs
United States -- History -- 1945-1953
United States -- History -- 1953-1961 - Type
- sound
- Language
- English
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- Oral history interview with Helen and Ed Banasik / interviewed by Susan Dal Santo. 1987. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebAudioPlayer.jsp?doc_id=aa172543-df64-469f-9585-15a8bb4e56e4/wlacu000/00000018/00000012. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- (1987) Oral history interview with Helen and Ed Banasik / interviewed by Susan Dal Santo. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebAudioPlayer.jsp?doc_id=aa172543-df64-469f-9585-15a8bb4e56e4/wlacu000/00000018/00000012
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