Ramsey County History – Spring 1997: “Growing Up in St. Paul: The Milkman, the Iceman, and Ice Chips in the Sawdust at the Bottom of the Wagon”

Growing Up in St. Paul: The Milkman, the Iceman, and Ice Chips in the Sawdust at the Bottom of the Wagon

Author: Ruth F. Brin

The author was born in 1921 in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood. She grew up in a prosperous Jewish family. This memoir conveys the times—the Swedish milkman and his wagon, streetcar rides, fear of TB and scarlet fever, a brother’s life-threatening illness.

PDF of Growing Up in Saint Paul