South of the Border Mexican Restaurant

In September 1935, James Pagedas began work on a $10,000 two-story brick building to house Rainy Lake Confectionery on the first floor and offices and apartments on the second floor (the old building that had been there before was moved to the back of the lot; it had been the site of Lundgren and Briggs Confectionery and later Art Carlson and Bo McCormack's Beaux Arts Confectionery). Jim and Frances Pagedas operated Jim's Eat Shoppe, known as Jim's Cafe, until 1950 when it was leased to Mynette Hogdon and Ruth Degrugillier who operated the North Wind Gift Shop and Coffee Shop until 1960 when Margaret Johnson and Lowell Johnson became the proprietors. About 1966, the Pagedas family again took over the operation. A grandson, Jim Davis, remodeled the back part of the building into an old fashioned buffet called "Swede Charlie's Pub" (a continuation of the old bar of the same name). The last business to occupy the building was South of the Border Mexican Restaurant, but the building now sits empty.