Sorensen Neighborhood

Did you know? Sorensen Factoids March 07

Feb 24, 2007

- Every summer in the 1920s,
fireworks were sold out of the Butler Brothers warehouse, which stood where Alabama Avenue intersected the railroad tracks a block east of Brunswick. Smoking was banned near the building, and neighborhood residents came to buy cherry bombs, caps, 3-inch salutes, Roman candles, skyrockets and ladyfingers.

- In 1933, a committee led by
C.L. Hurd came up with a new street naming and numbering
system for St. Louis Park. Webster, Xenwood and Yosemite were among the names added. The ?“second alphabet?” took names from U.S. states and Canadian provinces (such as Alabama and Brunswick).

- Hamilton Street is named in honor of Joseph Hamilton, a founding father of St. Louis Park who served as its first mayor and postmaster from 1886 to 1900.

Source: ?“Something in the Water: The Village of St. Louis Park, Minnesota 1945 and earlier?”
Editor, Don Swenson, class of 1945.