San Francisco
The Swedish Club of San Francisco and the Bay Area was founded in 1918 by Dr. A. O. Lindstrom and a group of Swedish businessmen of the Bay Area for the purpose of showing courtesy to visiting businessmen from Sweden, to entertain and assist them during their stay there; to enhance relationships between Sweden and America, thus opening up business possibilities in both direction; to promote and enhance Swedish culture in the new land.
--from the SCSFBA website.
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--from the SCSFBA website.
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C O N T A C T
Dear Swedish American Viewers,
I hope this website has aided you in some positive way with your interest in preserving and promoting Swedish American histories and cultures.
If you wish to list/link your own Swedish American story and information via your website, YouTube or PDF files to this website, that would be wonderful! If you wish to list or delete your Swedish American Organization, Institution or Establishment, it will be done! Just CONTACT me. Tack själv en miljonen!
Here is to celebrating with you all things great in Swedish Americana,
Fran Cochran
SwedishAmericana
Dear Swedish American Viewers,
I hope this website has aided you in some positive way with your interest in preserving and promoting Swedish American histories and cultures.
If you wish to list/link your own Swedish American story and information via your website, YouTube or PDF files to this website, that would be wonderful! If you wish to list or delete your Swedish American Organization, Institution or Establishment, it will be done! Just CONTACT me. Tack själv en miljonen!
Here is to celebrating with you all things great in Swedish Americana,
Fran Cochran
SwedishAmericana
Go HERE to 2018 Midsummer
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"The Swedish Club of San Francisco and the Bay Area represents an ideal blend of a Little Sweden In America."
(From The Swedish Club Biography by Heinz Evert Hellstrom, also by: Hogberg-Lindblom-Linstrom-Lundstrom-Olsson-Petterson-Swanberg)
2013 America's Cup Swedish Contender San Francisco Bay
A 2009 program from the Swedish Club of San Francisco and the Bay Area
"Swedish Art from Lindsborg, Capital of the Swedish Lands of Kansas"
San Francisco Christmas Fair 2009 at Saint Mary's Cathedral
Sponsored annually by the Swedish Women's Education Association
( SWEA )
Swedish Americana
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