I grew up in Mpls. and boarded a train to Montana when I was 18 and never looked back. My first 18 years I lived at 13th Ave. S.E. in Minneapolis and I remember mom taking four children on the Bryn Mahr bus at 13th and Hennepin up to East Hennepin where the National Tea (T?) grocery store was a block off Hennepin Av. behind a Woolworth. Imagine watching 4 kids plus carrying a week’s worth of groceries on a city bus in the 1950’s! From our house on 13th Av. S.E. from 1961 to 1965 I took a bus from Como Ave. S.E. & 15th Ave. S.E. to Hennepin Ave. and 2nd St. N.E. where I and six of my grade school girlfriends transferred to the 2nd Av. N.E. bus to St. Anthony of Padua High School two blocks before that bus met at Broadway Ave. N.E. From my house I could also catch the Johnson St. bus or the Bryn Mahr which also transferred at Hennepin and 2nd Av. N.E. Of course, we reversed our route on our way home from high school. I also took summer school classes for three summers for extra credits (French, typing, geometry). I wanted the experience of attending a public high school so I took the COMO bus almost all the way to Uptown near where West High School was located and then in the afternoon I would walk to Lake Calhoun, sunbathe, then take the bus all the way back to S. E. Minneapolis. I traveled right through the seediest part of downtown Minneapolis where there were so many bars and flop houses that you could not turn your head fast enough to count them along one block. Lastly, I remember many times taking the Como Ave. bus all the way to the fairgrounds in St. Paul and to the Como Park Zoo. Thank you for your video and the memories. 🎉
Amazing stuff! It's so much fun to bring the history of the city together in this way. You guys rock! Please use the modern name for Maka Ska in your videos. It is a bit distracting to hear the old name used so much without mention that it is no longer used.
It’s pretty standard for historians to use the old name for things when they are talking about them when they still used different names. If you were doing a historical presentation on the city now known as Saint Petersburg in the 1950s, you would refer to it as Leningrad as that is what it was called at that point.
I grew up in Mpls. and boarded a train to Montana when I was 18 and never looked back. My first 18 years I lived at 13th Ave. S.E. in Minneapolis and I remember mom taking four children on the Bryn Mahr bus at 13th and Hennepin up to East Hennepin where the National Tea (T?) grocery store was a block off Hennepin Av. behind a Woolworth. Imagine watching 4 kids plus carrying a week’s worth of groceries on a city bus in the 1950’s! From our house on 13th Av. S.E. from 1961 to 1965 I took a bus from Como Ave. S.E. & 15th Ave. S.E. to Hennepin Ave. and 2nd St. N.E. where I and six of my grade school girlfriends transferred to the 2nd Av. N.E. bus to St. Anthony of Padua High School two blocks before that bus met at Broadway Ave. N.E. From my house I could also catch the Johnson St. bus or the Bryn Mahr which also transferred at Hennepin and 2nd Av. N.E. Of course, we reversed our route on our way home from high school. I also took summer school classes for three summers for extra credits (French, typing, geometry). I wanted the experience of attending a public high school so I took the COMO bus almost all the way to Uptown near where West High School was located and then in the afternoon I would walk to Lake Calhoun, sunbathe, then take the bus all the way back to S. E. Minneapolis. I traveled right through the seediest part of downtown Minneapolis where there were so many bars and flop houses that you could not turn your head fast enough to count them along one block. Lastly, I remember many times taking the Como Ave. bus all the way to the fairgrounds in St. Paul and to the Como Park Zoo. Thank you for your video and the memories. 🎉
85 yo . Tears in my eyes
Lagoon was extended east of Hennepin sometime between 1957 and 1966, so after the streetcars were gone.
Amazing stuff! It's so much fun to bring the history of the city together in this way. You guys rock!
Please use the modern name for Maka Ska in your videos. It is a bit distracting to hear the old name used so much without mention that it is no longer used.
How about bring back these trollys😊😮😊😊
It’s pretty standard for historians to use the old name for things when they are talking about them when they still used different names. If you were doing a historical presentation on the city now known as Saint Petersburg in the 1950s, you would refer to it as Leningrad as that is what it was called at that point.