See classic Minnesota winter photos

Winter in Minnesota over the last 80 years. 
Photos by Star Tribune photographers
February 21, 2019 — 9:09am

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March 24, 1966 Downtown Minneapolis was nearly deserted .Wednesday during what is normally the rush hour after a spring blizzard left most area residents stranded in their homes. The lonely pedestrian with Nicollet Av. all to himself was Dave Scheusner, 4732 Pillsbury Av., who was en route to work, warmly shod in white Arctic boots. Nary a car challenged his right to the middle of the street. March 23, 1966 March 25, 1966 Dwight Miller, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Dwight Miller

March 6, 1985: Robert Stevens, 11 and Brian Richard, 10, took advantage of giants drifts on Duluth's Park Point.

Marlin Levison

February 2, 1957: Pedestrians walk in the snow in downtown Minneapolis.

Bill Ray

Feb. 28, 1951: Motorists were jammed for blocks by slow-moving traffic on Wayzata Boulevard Facing east near Kenwood Hill.

December, 1985: Kerry Grittner skied to a Victorian Christmas show in downtown Minneapolis, only to find out it had been cancelled.

Steve Schluter

December 11, 1985: Lisa Reed, of Minneapolis, squeezes out of her passenger door in downtown Minneapolis.

Stormi Greener

January 1975: A residential street after a blizzard in Willmar, Minnesota.

Mike Zerby

Nov. 4, 1981 George Mastros, of Minneapolis, stood on a ladder to sweep snow from his van.

Bruce Bipsing

April 1, 1962: Veteran Letter Carrier Frank Ashton covers 88 - Mile Route in Preston, Minn., area.

Jan. 28, 1977: A snow fence and windbreak endured assault from blowing snow just off W. Bush Lake Rd. near 94th St.

Tom Sweeney

Nov. 2, 1992: Two horses frolicked in a pasture along highway 41 near Chaska.

Charles Bjorgen

Nov. 29, 1991: A pedestrian fights her way past some festively lit pine trees on the Nicollet Mall at 4th St.

Mike Zerby

1940: Two men by a chest-high snowdrift in front of a store after the Armistice Day Blizzard.

Jan. 12, 1977: Berta Krueger swept the sidewalk in front of her house near Lake St. and Chicago Av. S.

Bruce Bisping

Jan. 3, 1997: Warmer weather this week caused this snow bank on 13th Ave. SF in Dinkytown to reveal a bicycle that was buried in the snow earlier this winter.

Jeff Wheeler

March 16, 1989: Dan Paulus holds snow at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in St. Paul.

Rita Reed

1985: People play volleyball on Garfield Ave. South and 46th St after 14 inches of snow in Minneapolis.

Stormi Greener

Dec. 14, 1961 An Impromptu game in the snow helped keep Vikings Ray Hayes and Jim Marshall warm during Wednesday's workout at Midway stadium.

John Croft

Minneapolis College of Art and Design student Patty Swenson careened through the snow in a garbage-can creation in Wirth Park.

Donald Black

Snow covers a Minneapolis sign in March, 1985.

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