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SNELLING AVENUE
BUSINESS INITIATIVE |
In the fall of 2005,
Sparc
reinvigorated efforts to make improvements along
Snelling Avenue, north of University. This page is the
start of documenting the history of business
organizations along Snelling Avenue.
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EARLY
ORGANIZATIONS
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1921 - Hamline
Commercial Club
This congratulatory
letter from, dated October 12, 1921, is from the
Commercial Club's president to the vice
president. It reveals several interesting facts
of the day:
- The Club was
headquartered at the Masonic Temple on the
corner of Snelling and Capitol (today's
Englewood)
- Names of the
Club's officers, presumably neighborhood
residents, appear at the top of the
letterhead
- There are two
addresses at the bottom of the page for the
Club president and secretary: in the
"Metropolitan Bank Building" and the "Pioneer
Building" -- Are these in downtown Saint
Paul?
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(click image to
see larger version)
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Photo of the
Masonic Temple, courtesy
of the Hamline
University Archives
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1938 - North
Snelling Club
This Pioneer
Press clipping from January 6, 1938, shows a
group with ambition:
"Projects
in which the club is interested are a
clubhouse for the Hamline playgrounds,
Snelling Avenue and Lafond street, and better
street lighting on Snelling
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1948 - Long Time
Resident Retires
This article from the
1948 Midway Monitor about longtime
resident A. J. Wallace gives some excellent
history of both businesses and the
neighborhood.
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(click
image to read entire article)
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1990? - Snelling Avenue Improvement Project
An eight-page document, created by the Snelling Avenue Improvement Project, the predecessor to today's SABI.
This piece describes the design, color scheme, and suggest use of the Hamline Midway logo.
Open Page images in New Window:
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Or download a PDF of the entire document:
---Snelling_Improvement-c1990.pdf [39 MB]
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(Courtesy of Triesta Brown)
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Updated 5 Dec 2006; Stay tuned for more
soon!
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