Ramsey County History – Spring 2005: “Growing up in St. Paul: Simple, Carefree Days—Hague and Fry—and the Center of a Boy’s Universe”

Growing up in St. Paul: Simple, Carefree Days—Hague and Fry—and the Center of a Boy’s Universe 
Author: James B. Bell

The author lived his first sixteen years at the house of his grandfather, a businessman engaged in finance. Life at 1618 Hague was simple and had many carefree days. He wrote that “the neighborhood of Hague Avenue and Fry Street” was “the focal point of my earliest education” and recalls the village-like character of the shops at Selby and Snelling. He and his siblings all attended the Richards Gordon School on Dayton Avenue. There are memories of bringing money for Red Cross drives, participating in the student police patrol, and school release for Protestant religious instruction. There were dance lessons from Marie Rothfuss after school and French lessons at his school.
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