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Dorothea Nordstrand

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Black and white photo from the 1930s depicting two women at bank adding machines
A Day Like No Other
I didn’t really need to read the scribbled message on the slip of paper he handed me with the hand that wasn’t busy with the...
Black and white photo from the 1930s depicting two women at bank adding machines
Lessons in Life
There are many memories from the time I worked at Green Lake State Bank; some funny, some sad, but all a precious legacy from that...
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Garbagemen’s Pay: A Reminiscence of 1930s Seattle

This reminiscence by Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand (1916-2011) is about the colorful characters she met while working at Green Lake State Bank. Dorothea was a frequent...

a couple of women in an office
My First Job: A Reminiscence of the Great Depression
Graduation from high school in 1934 plunged me smack into the midst of the Great Depression...
Memories of Roosevelt High School
This is a reminiscence and reflection on Seattle's Roosevelt High School by 1934 graduate Dorothea Nordstrand...
Daddy’s Way with Words
One wonderful Friday, when I was 13, he decided the time had come...
The Pfisters: Founders of my Seattle family
All their lives, they cared for each other. Through good times and bad, their affection was unchanging...
Midnight Swim
The water felt like silk as I slid through it... I would roll onto my back and float, gazing up into the star-studded blackness of...

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