Charlie Nylund was born in 1929, one year before his future wife, Rose Lindstrom. Charlie and Rose first met in 1937, when she purchased a nickel insurance policy from his stand for her red wagon. Though it was love at first sight, and he proposed marriage, Rose was told to wait by her mother, Alma. In 1979, at the age of 50, Charlie took a business trip from St. Olaf to Miami. Due to Blanche taking pictures over used film in Charlie's old camera, Rose believed that Charlie and Blanche had an affair.