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Longtime resident recounts O'Fallon memories: paper routes, businesses and midcentury life
Summary
At the May 5 meeting, Tom Ginevra delivered an extended oral history of O'Fallon, describing mid-20th-century daily life, early businesses, railroad anecdotes and family recollections; commissioners encouraged recording the interviews for archival preservation.
Tom Ginevra, a longtime O'Fallon resident, shared a multi-decade oral history at the May 5 Historic Preservation Commission meeting, recounting childhood memories, family businesses and small-town life that commissioners said should be captured and preserved.
Ginevra described delivering newspapers from a young age — "I became a paper wire when I was 11, and I remember delivering 61 Globe Democrats in the morning and 62 Post-Dispatch in the afternoon"…
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