 The downtown was filled with two and three storey brick buildings and offered an array of shops, services, and amenities such as an opera house, bowling alley, restaurants, a hotel and other amusements.From a simple market and trading point, Coon Rapids had become the economic, social, recreational and service center for the four county areas.It continued in this role despite the fall in farm values in the late teens and Great Depression of the 1930s.