Stuff about Minneapolis

Restaurant counter at Snyder’s Drug showing Breakfast Club members personalized coffee cups, 2630 Lake Street East, Minneapolis
by The Minnesota Historical Society

Walgreens to acquire most Snyder’s Drug Stores

From a single cigar shop that opened in downtown Minneapolis in 1928, to a decent size chain with locations across the Upper Midwest, it looks like the Snyder’s name will cease to exist. Snyder’s sold off the company about a year ago, but you could still find them in sparse locations around the metro. The one I remember going to the most was the Snyder’s Drug Store in Fridley at the Holly Center strip mall. My dentist was in a building right next to the Holly Center, so if I went in to have a filling or something done as a kid, my dad and I would go into Snyder’s afterwards and sit at their lunch counter and have malts.

*sigh* Snyder’s, Dayton’s, Little Jack’s Steakhouse, the “Top Nine at Nine” on WLOL…each day my youth gets a little farther away.