Walter Deubener
[2][3][4] In the early 1900s, Walter Deubener and his wife, Lydia, owned and operated the S. S. Kresge grocery store [5] on Seventh Street in downtown St. Paul.After noticing that his customers were having a difficult time carrying their groceries by hand, Deubener began experimenting with ways to get around the problem.Mr Deubener went across the street to his bank and had the initial invention samples and write up notarized so he could protect his future patent.Each night, a bonfire was started and Edwin the handyman would cook hot dogs and hamburgers and cut watermelons that had been on ice all day for the guests.His legacy includes the Deubener-Juenemann Foundation and the Walter and Lydia Deubener Awards, which are given annually by the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce in recognition of business innovation.