Article: Seeger Co.'s tenure was bittersweet for East Side: Book shares landmark refrigerator firm's hot history, frosty finish as it closed in 1984.

Byline: Tim Nelson

May 29--Those chickens President Herbert Hoover once vowed to put in every pot had to come from somewhere.

And for much of the past century, chances were good that families across America would have pulled them from a refrigerator made in St. Paul.

The Seeger Refrigerator Co., founded in 1902 and later known as Whirlpool, was an East Side landmark and American icon for more than 80 years. With 3M and Ford Motor Co., the company played a major role in giving St. Paul its blue-collar tinge.

The East Side plant's closing in 1984 proved an ill omen, according to James B. Bell, a St. Paul native and Oxford University ...

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