Ramsey County History – Spring 2008: “Growing Up In Saint Paul: When Selby and Snelling Had a Life of Its Own, 1943–1954”

Growing Up In Saint Paul: When Selby and Snelling Had a Life of Its Own, 1943–195

Author: Bernard P. Friel

The author, who was born in 1930, lived in a three-generation home at 1237 Selby. His first real job was at Park Drug Store at Selby and Snelling, and that job lasted eleven years. He also worked on a railroad dining car. Friel went to Central High School, where he participated in sports and other activities. He also writes about Charles Schultz’s barbershop, O’Gara’s Bar, his experiences working at the drugstore, and the various activities at the corner in the 1940s, including his recollections of the big fire of 1947. In his adult years he became an attorney.
PDF of Growing Up in Sant Paul