The Winona State Teachers College campus is at the center of this photo of Winona. It was probably taken from Garvin Heights, the bluff to the south of Lake Winona.
Contributing Institution:
Winona State University, Darrell W. Krueger Library
Wellington Schroeder discusses where he was born and his childhood home; coming to Minnesota on a train and seeing the largest flour mill in the world; his father's farm at Sanford, Minnesota; hauling supplies for logging camps near Grand Rapids; helping unload the first steel rails of the Deer River logging railroad; how much different men in the logging camps made; being barn boss for the teamsters at a logging camp; the poor logging conditions in 1892-93; the financial constraints of logging companies; ice fishing on Maple Lake; starting a store in Bemidji; coming to Bemidji from Osakis; early businesses in Bemidji; hauling supplies for his store from Park Rapids; his custom-made wagon; making a killing on flour; hauling money for a bank; fixing the roads as he passed over them; his route into tow; following lumber teams to know where it was safe to drive; and buying and shipping blueberries. The interview continues in BCHS 084a.
Winona streetcar #10 is shown just inside the door of the carbarn at 58 Johnson Street. Built in 1913, it ran until the end of service in 1938. It has been preserved by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum and is being restored to return to service.
The motorman is reversing the trolley pole at the west end of the Main Line on 5th Street. This is either Lee Street or Bierce Street, after the line was shorted in 1933.