History of Master Shoemaker, Frank Kovacs
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- Fonds / Collection
- Nielsen
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1982 - 1982
- Accession Number
- 2022.09
- Scope and Content
- Newspaper clipping with photo of Frank Kovacs. Red Deer Advocate January 30, 1982 on his retirement from the shoemaking business after 35 years.
- Fonds / Collection
- Nielsen
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds Number
- 367-22
- Item Number
- 11
- Accession Number
- 2022.09
- Date
- 1982 - 1982
- Physical Description
- Newspaper clipping in good condition
- Name Access
- Doris Turner
- Ann Nielsen
- Frank Kovas
- Steve Kovas
- Subject Access
- Shoemaker
- Geographic Access
- Sylvan Lake
- Scope and Content
- Newspaper clipping with photo of Frank Kovacs. Red Deer Advocate January 30, 1982 on his retirement from the shoemaking business after 35 years.
- Article tells of Mr. Kovacs story of becoming a shoemaker intially working with his grandfather in Hungary and then taking training in making orthopedic footware.
- He left Hungary in 1927 and settled in the Sylvan Lake area two years later.
- His son, Steve, opened a store on 49th Street in Red Deer in 1942 and two years later Frank joined his son to help out. Frank continued to make specialty shoes and his son handled the regular shoe repairs.
- Notes
- Ann Nielson is the daughter of Charlie and Doris Turner