Entrance to Selby Tunnel

ID: 385
This file appears in: The Streetcar Era

Looking towards the Cathedral

Date: August, 1931

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: The Streetcar Era

By Paul Nelson
The electric streetcar service began on Selby Avenue in 1890. St. Anthony Hill, however, proved to be a vexatious impediment; the steep grade made for slow and hard going travel, especially in winter.…