20.19

Print, Photographic

1947

John Jondal in John's Recreation Pool Hall. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7". Description: black and white photo showing the interior of the Pool Hall at 109 South State Street, Waseca, Minnesota, also known as the Weller Building; shown standing behind the bar dressed in dress pants and a white shirt, a light colored fedora hat and smoking a cigar is John Reuben Jondal; standing at the bar drinking a coke is a young man in a billed cap and overalls; in the background are several pool tables and young men with pool cues.

The pool hall was located in the upstairs of Jondal's building in the late 1930s and 1940s; later it moved to the basement of the same building. John Jondal retired sometime in the early 1970s after also having operated a grocery store likely located on 7th St.; his wife was Thelma C. Jondal; donor is his daughter Joan Jondal Anderson.