37 Amazing Vintage Photos Show Street Scenes of Minneapolis in the 1920s-30s

   
Beer wagon, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1939
 
Bootblack's stand, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937

 

 
Boston Block Department Store, 300 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 27 December 1936

 

 
Chicago Hotel in Minneapolis, 1920

 

 
Christmas decorations at 7th Street and Nicollet Avenue. Dayton department store on left, 1920s

 

 
Christmas decorations at Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, 1925

 

 
Directing traffic the Minneapolis way, 1923

 

 
Fight between teamsters and police, Minneapolis, June 1934

 

 
Gas station in Minneapolis, December 1937

 

 
Gateway Park, the heart of skid row, Minneapolis, September 1939

 

 
Gateway Park, the heart of skid row; Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6 July 1937

 

 
Goodwill store and Mission church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937

 

Hennepin Avenue at South Tenth Street, Minneapolis, 1934

 

Hennepin Avenue from Sixth Street looking north, Minneapolis, 1920

 

Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, ca. 1920s

 

Horse racing on lake of the Isles, Minneapolis, 1929

 

Looking up Nicollet from Fourth Street south, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 14 January 1937

 

Miller's restaurant, 126 Washington Avenue south, Minneapolis, January 16, 1920

 

Minneapolis Mayor George E. Leach points out a good place to get run down by a car, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1925

 

Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time in a presidential election, 1920

 

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1925

 

Miss Minnesota over Nicollet Mall, 1938

 

Newspaper row, Fourth Street south near Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1927

 

Orpheum Theater (still very much in use), 910 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1933

 

Passengers boarding a street car at Hennepin and 9th, Minneapolis, ca. 1920s

 

Pawnshop in Gateway District, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939

 

Pawnshops and secondhand stores, Minneapolis, 1939

 

Policeman with boy at Thirty-Sixth Street and Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1925

 

Sixth and Nicollet in the rain, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1924

 

Skid row, Minneapolis, August 1937

 

Snowplow owned by Jefferson Transportation Company, Minneapolis, 1925

 

South Sixth Street, near Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 1925

 

Southwest corner of Snelling and University, St. Paul, Minneapolis, 1932

 

The heart of downtown, Seventh and Hennepin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1920

 

West hotel, Minneapolis, 1927

 

Workers marching through Minneapolis Loop in observance of May Day chanting, 1937

 

404 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1931