By: Barbara Meyer Bistodeau 05/01/2012
The name, Digatono, was well known around North Minneapolis from the 1920s to the ‘50s, partly because of Joe Digatono’s Shoe Shop on 42nd and Thomas Ave. N. You couldn’t miss it because it was at the end of the streetcar line and when you got off the streetcar, you could smell the scent of fine crafted leather wafting in the breeze. Everyone who lived around there went to get their shoes fixed, whether it was for a quick shine or to get their soles saved—(not the church kind!).