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Ramsey County History – Fall 1992: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Polish Sausage and Trips on the Streetcar”
DeAnne M. CherryGrowing Up in St. Paul: Polish Sausage and Trips on the Streetcar Author: DeAnne M. Cherry The author spent many days on St. Paul’s North End in the 1940s in the company of her Polish grandparents. This memoir includes St. Casimir’s Church, Calvary Cemetery, Hank’s Grocery, visits from the rag…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “Fifty Year Later—A Survivor’s Memories of the Bataan Death March”
Philip S. Brain Jr.Fifty Year Later—A Survivor’s Memories of the Bataan Death March Author: Philip S. Brain Jr. “The line beneath life and death is very narrow.” The first line of this memoir sets the tone. The author spent almost all of World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese. His account,…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Years of Depression, Gangsters, Good Schools”
Willard L. BoydGrowing Up in St. Paul: Years of Depression, Gangsters, Good Schools Author: Willard L. (Sandy) Boyd The author grew up in idyllic St. Anthony Park in the 1920s and ’30s. Memory lane is fully occupied: Guttersen School, the farm campus, John Dillinger, the Midtown Theater, and Murray High School. The author…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “Help, Housing ‘Almost Impossible to Find’: A Single Mother and World War II”
Hilda RacheyHelp, Housing ‘Almost Impossible to Find’: A Single Mother and World War II Author: Hilda Rachey The trials of a young, single, working mother of two in St. Paul during World War II. She had to scramble time and again to find housing and child care (both often inadequate), deal…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1989: “Boats, Boaters and Boat Clubs—Slips Cost 10 Cents a Foot”
Thomas J. KelleyBoats, Boaters and Boat Clubs—Slips Cost 10 Cents a Foot Author: Thomas J. Kelley Two short pieces in one, this article centers around Navy Island, the history of the Minnesota Yacht Club, and memories of the Minnesota Boat Club. The Yacht Club began in 1912 as the St. Paul…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1988: “A Record Setting Winter—And the Ice Harvest on Lake Owasso”
Neill J. O’NeillA Record Setting Winter—And the Ice Harvest on Lake Owasso Author: Neill J. O’Neill As a lad in the mid-1930s, the author worked three seasons harvesting ice on Lake Owasso in suburban Ramsey County. He recalls in detail how the ice harvest worked—the equipment, the procedures, the job hierarchy,…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1988: “George H. Trout and the Corner Grocery Store”
Karl TroutGeorge H. Trout and the Corner Grocery Store Author: Karl Trout This memoir from the son of a grocer in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood is filled with delightful details: how the commodities were delivered and sold and how customers tasted the butter before buying. According to the author, “the…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1985: “Growing Up on Dayton’s Bluff—A Turn-of-the-Century Boyhood”
Karl H. TroutGrowing Up on Dayton’s Bluff—A Turn-of-the-Century Boyhood Author: Karl H. Trout The author recalls the everyday life of a boy who lived in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. His family lived on Burns Avenue in a home with no central heat, gas, or electric heat. Warmth was provided from coal…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1981: “1910s ‘One-Horse’ Gladstone Recalled”
Lucile Arnold1910s ‘One-Horse’ Gladstone Recalled Author: Lucile Arnold A memoir of the vanished hamlet of Gladstone along Frost Avenue in today’s Maplewood. The writer recalls its two-room schoolhouse with its bell tower and spiral fire escape, swimming in Gladstone Lake, childhood games, the frequent railroad traffic and streetcar service, Mrs.