Hi All!
Gosh this topic has just grabbed me by the nards. Too nice to stay inside for long, but I'm gonna use my second post to list a few things that made St Paul such a neat place to grow up.
The list is a bit West-End-Centric, 'cos that's where I grew up!
The Catholic Pipeline. Baptized at St Luke, K-2 at Nativity, 3-8 at St Mark's, 9-12 at Cretin, BA Summa in 3 years from College of St Thomas. Thousands of other St Paul boys and girls followed similar tracks, although the fairer sex separated to Our Lady of Peace or Derham or Vis and on to St Kates while the boys could opt for St Thomas Academy if Cretin was too blue collar for 'em. And most of us intermarried.
Touch Footie on the islands of Summit or the lawn in front of O'Shaunessy Library or Magnus Hall.
Carp fishing at sewer outlet under Lake Street Bridge...rickety old Lake Street Bridge which would shudder disconcertingly when a bus came over and had rotting wooden planks (those that weren't missing) for a walk/bike path.
Keggers below Goodrich or Fairmont or Jefferson. How no teens fell to their deaths off those precarious places, I cannot fathom.
Keggers at Crosby, way back in the woods, before it became a yuppie jogging path.
Lee Lenore's Sauna on Randolph and Snelling above a laundromat, with the motto, "Entrance in Rear." Always good for a giggle.
May Day Procession in honor of the Virgin Mary down Summit to the Cathedral. Nothing Commie about it.
Nice, twisty tangletowns, nice straight avenues. NO 4-WAY STOPS like those poor saps in Mpls had.
The mystery of Hidden Falls (not anymore a mystery) and Shadow Falls (still pretty much undiscovered)
The original Carbone's on Randolph. They put a dollop of butter atop the generous mozzarella. -- #1 Date spot....after catching a flick at the Highland or Grandview.
Abundant ditch weed which inspired many a placebo high.
Grade School Days at the Highland, Phalen, Como golf courses. $1 if you teed off before 7:00 and stayed the hell ahead of the real $5 paying customers.
Whew! I guess this will have to suffice at Part One. I must get outside and start the fall cleaning. One thing that bugs me, as that no matter how perfect the weather, one insect or another will spoil the fun. We have a nest of angry wasps somewhere, and they will be dive-bombing with a vengeance today.
Cheers!
Paul Kuettel Falcon Heights
Sorry about the lack of detail under the previous post.
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