Lang's Sweet Shop
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- University and Western -
Well into the 20th century, Frogtown's stretch of University Avenue was where neighborhood residents could shop for anything. Small family-run grocery stores, meat and fruit and vegetable markets provided food. General merchandise stores provided a wide variety of household goods. Confectionaries provided sweets and in some cases, a soda fountain counter. Milinery shops provided fine ladies' hats. Cobblers made shoes for the entire family.
Photographer: Mando Studio
Date: 1933
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Manufacturing and Other Storefronts
Manufacturing and Other Storefronts
Manufacturing uses were present along University and throughout the Frogtown neighborhood. Examples include the 1914 Ford Building, 117 W. University, an early motor vehicle manufacturing building and…