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The Citizen’s State Bank building

A bank, then Carver County’s first funeral home, then a saloon, a tavern and a café.

TodayPangea Café37 West 1st Street

37 West 1st Street, 2020
37 West 1st Street, Early 1930s
Early 1930s2020

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Through the years

  1. OriginallyThe Citizen’s State Bank
  2. ThenCarver County’s first funeral home, run by Charles Uecker
  3. 1948Will Yetzer, who bought the funeral business from Uecker, moves it to 141 East 1st Street
  4. LaterA saloon, a tavern and a café
  5. TodayPangea Café

The story

The building began as the Citizen’s State Bank. It then became home to the first funeral home in Carver County, run by Charles Uecker.

Uecker later sold the business to Will Yetzer, who moved it from here to 141 East 1st Street in 1948. After that the building served as a saloon, a tavern and a café.

Do you remember this building?

Do you know when the bank closed, or who ran the saloon and the tavern here?

Memories, names and family photographs go into the association’s archive, kept with your name and in your own words.

In the archive preview

Sources

Photographs from the Waconia Heritage Association collection.