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Sharing the Vision...Still sharing the family vision is Dorothy Carlson, shown with her late husband, Erin Carlson in the early '40s. Mr. Carlson died on april 12, 1991, shortly before the opening of the present County Market.Upon his discharge from the sen/ice in 1946, he returned to manage the Carlson Grocery Store atPine and Mill streets in Ironwood. Working briefly in 1954 as advertising mana-§er with 20th century Foodtores, he subsequentlyopened the Carlson Supermarket on Cloverland Drive in 1956 and Carlson'sa/is^u Super Market in downtown MICll. Ironwood in 1961.i 1912— Holmgren's o become Carlson's)on Mill Steet.Family Observes 100 Years in Retail Grocery TradeIt was great-great-great-grandfather Peter Holmgren who begain it all more than a century ago when he opened the first family store on Wilson Street in the Aurora Location. In 1912, the store was moved to Mill Street (shown at left) and the name was changed to Carlson's. Subsequent affiliations included Cloverfarm Stores and 20th Century Food Stores and the present Super Valu association. The store went supermarket and independent in 1956 when a brand-new building was erected on Cloverland Drive in Ironwood. The store moved to a downtown location in 1961. The culmination of five generations of dedicated service came when Carlson's County Market opened in the Ironwood Commons mall inJune of 1991.
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Ironwood Daily Globe
Ironwood, Michigan, US
Mon, Jun 20, 1994
Page 12
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