Here below are some amazing vintage photos showing street scenes of Minneapolis in the 1920s-30s.
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| Beer wagon, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1939 |
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| Bootblack's stand, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937 |
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| Boston Block Department Store, 300 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 27 December 1936 |
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| Chicago Hotel in Minneapolis, 1920 |
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| Christmas decorations at 7th Street and Nicollet Avenue. Dayton department store on left, 1920s |
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| Christmas decorations at Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, 1925 |
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| Directing traffic the Minneapolis way, 1923 |
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| Fight between teamsters and police, Minneapolis, June 1934 |
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| Gas station in Minneapolis, December 1937 |
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| Gateway Park, the heart of skid row, Minneapolis, September 1939 |
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| Gateway Park, the heart of skid row; Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6 July 1937 |
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| Goodwill store and Mission church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937 |
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| Hennepin Avenue at South Tenth Street, Minneapolis, 1934 |
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| Hennepin Avenue from Sixth Street looking north, Minneapolis, 1920 |
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| Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, ca. 1920s |
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| Horse racing on lake of the Isles, Minneapolis, 1929 |
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| Looking up Nicollet from Fourth Street south, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 14 January 1937 |
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| Miller's restaurant, 126 Washington Avenue south, Minneapolis, January 16, 1920 |
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| Minneapolis Mayor George E. Leach points out a good place to get run down by a car, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1925 |
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| Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time in a presidential election, 1920 |
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| Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1925 |
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| Miss Minnesota over Nicollet Mall, 1938 |
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| Newspaper row, Fourth Street south near Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1927 |
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| Orpheum Theater (still very much in use), 910 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1933 |
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| Passengers boarding a street car at Hennepin and 9th, Minneapolis, ca. 1920s |
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| Pawnshop in Gateway District, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939 |
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| Pawnshops and secondhand stores, Minneapolis, 1939 |
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| Policeman with boy at Thirty-Sixth Street and Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1925 |
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| Sixth and Nicollet in the rain, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1924 |
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| Skid row, Minneapolis, August 1937 |
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| Snowplow owned by Jefferson Transportation Company, Minneapolis, 1925 |
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| South Sixth Street, near Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 1925 |
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| Southwest corner of Snelling and University, St. Paul, Minneapolis, 1932 |
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| The heart of downtown, Seventh and Hennepin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1920 |
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| West hotel, Minneapolis, 1927 |
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| Workers marching through Minneapolis Loop in observance of May Day chanting, 1937 |
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| 404 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1931 |
