More pictures and captions unpublished in the days of yore.
Contributor: Joan Gallagher of Inver Grove Heights
Date of picture: Unknown
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: None
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Contributor: Gerald Aamodt of Shoreview
Date of picture: Early 1950s
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: “This is a picture of my wife, who marched for the Field Schlick Drum and Glockenspiel Corps. Looks like she is prepared to march in a Winter Carnival parade sometime in the early ’50s, as she has on her winter uniform. Picture was taken in front of the Field Schlick store on Wabasha Street.”
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Contributor: Jay Mae of Star Prairie, Wisconsin
Date of picture: 1947
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: “Picture taken by my mother-in-law on family farm — town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin, near Star Prairie. Snow chunks cut with shovel, pushed up to top on a plank.”
Contributor: M.F. of North Branch
Date of pictures: ca. 1932 and 1940
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: “The first one is a truck used in app. 1932 working on Highway 8 going into Taylors Falls.
“The second one is app. 1940 when Chisago County purchased this ‘Oshkosh’ — taken in front of the courthouse in Center City. Pictured left to right: my father, Paul Peers; county engineer Adolph Engberg; salesman and patrolmen Gilbert Hawkinson and Frank Nelson.”
Contributor: Jean of West St. Paul
Date of picture: 1919
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: “Another mode of transportation.
“Picture taken at corner of Cherokee Avenue & Morton Street in 1919.
“My parents always took their walks over to Cherokee Park. As my brother and I got older, we went sliding or skiing over there.
“I can give you a little history of the park. It was St. Paul’s campgrounds. They furnished picnic tables, swings, slides and teeter-totters. Also, there was a small iron stand to cook on. There were restrooms on the lower level of the bandstand.
“By the late ’20s or early ’30s, camping was prohibited, because people living on Chippewa Avenue across from the park said campers were stealing clothes from their clotheslines.
“The city opened another campground off of Highway 61, north of Lake Phalen. That didn’t last very long.
“There was a regularly scheduled night for the band concerts.”
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