Ramsey County History – Winter 2001: “Growing Up In St Paul: A Child With An ‘Eye Problem’ and Memories of the Vision Classes in the St. Paul Schools”

Growing Up In St Paul: A Child With An ‘Eye Problem’ and Memories of the Vision Classes in the St. Paul Schools

Author: John Larson

The author’s memories of growing up in the Merriam Park and North End neighborhoods in the late 1920s and the ‘30s touch upon treatments for his eye disease, the local swimming hole and blacksmith shop, the end of Prohibition, his “vision classes” at Webster and Irving Schools, exploring the new Ramsey County Courthouse, and riding the streetcars.

PDF of Growing Up in St. Paul