Selby Avenue, west of Dale Street

ID: 384
This file appears in: Restaurant Row

Photographer: St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press

Date: 1967

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Restaurant Row

By Paul Nelson
The familiar Midwest urban decline began along Selby during the Depression, accelerated after World War II, then hit its nadir with two nights of violence after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in…