The End of an Era

Tom Hawkins
4 min readSep 6, 2022
Linda with her Dad/Rene and Tom

In the summer of 1967, my father came home for the weekend in the weeks after purchasing a Chevy dealership in Sherburn MN. We were living on the 8100 block of Vincent Avenue in Bloomington, MN. We lived in a somewhat new ranch home in a neighborhood a stone's throw from the “all-new” Target store on Penn Ave and I-494. Mom really liked the neighborhood and the neighbors and was hoping Dad would find a house similar to what we were leaving. On that…

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Tom Hawkins

President/CEO of Hawkins Chevrolet Evangelical Christian Barbershop Harmony Singer