Cathy Wurzer: Swede Hollow was destroyed by fire. Looking at the pictures, again, pretty spectacular, deliberately set fires in 1956.
Annette Atkins: The St. Paul Fire Department went in and poured gasoline. They just saturated the place in gasoline and sent it up. They believed — and there was a fair amount of evidence — that it was the safest, best thing to do for the rest of the city.
MPR today has a short but striking slideshow on St. Paul’s Swede Hollow, once an immigrant community (Swedish, Irish, Italian, Mexican) and now a park.
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