History
The unassuming two story store/flat that houses Positively 3rd St Bakery was constructed in 1913. The earliest tenant that we know of was a family grocery store, Bertulla's, that operated at least through the 1950s. We always appreciate hearing stories from people that grew up in the neighborhood. The building housed a succession of bakeries from the 1970s through 1982, when several workers banded together to buy out their management and start a worker co-op. Cooperative enterprise is in NE Minnesota is nothing new, but the new bakery brought a tradition with it's roots in Scandanavia into the present. The name