A BRIEF HISTORY OF May Day Cafe
May Day Cafe is part of a long legacy of community and food at the corner of 35th and Bloomington. For two decades before it housed May Day, the building was home to the Powderhorn Co-op, a cooperative grocery store founded in the 1970s by a group of students based out of Walker Church (now New City Center) with the goal of providing accessible food in the neighborhood. That project gave way to May Day Cafe in the mid-1990s, first under the ownership of Mala Vujnovich and later purchased by then-employee Andy Lunning in 2003.
For over a year, workers at the Cafe led a massive organizing and fundraising effort to transition May Day to worker-ownership. With support from countless neighbors as well as the institutional support of a number of organizations, this transition was successfully completed by late January 2025.
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