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Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social

#OnThisDay Jul 22 1938: Mayor Albert Flor of New Ulm, Minnesota (left), and Mayor Edgar Hyek of Albert Lea (right), pump furiously during the "Mayors Handcar Race" along the streetcar tracks in downtown Minneapolis. Spectacles like this were common in the 1930s to boost morale in the Depression.