Then and Now

The Y-Cafe was located on the west edge of Kasson where Highway 14 went over the railroad tracks (north of Woodward Repair) before the expansion of the four-lane from Byron to west of Kasson. In 1974 it was announced that the highway construction project was being delayed until 1975 as they needed to study the environmental impact of the expansion of widening Mantorville Avenue by Maston Creek to the new Hwy 14. Further study of farm patterns, school bus and mail routes, community social patterns, wildlife, streams, park and recreation lands, and water runoff were also needed. The delay meant that landowners would have the full use of their fields being affected for the 1974 crop year. Once the four-lane highway was completed to Kasson and connected to Hwy 14 (now County #34) to Dodge Center, the highway traffic pattern changed for the cafe too. From the 1974 DCI newspaper archives.