Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Homes, Lakes, and Boulevards. Its commercial and mercantile institutions, its flour mills, and its lumber industry have given it renown, yet throughout the length and breadth of the land, it has gained no greater renown among discriminating people than that given by The Leamington, the greatest apartment house of the growing Northwest. The Leamington stands … Read more
CASTLE FALLS CAFE U.S. Highways 10, 52, 169 and 218, breathtaking Anoka, Minnesota. 14 miles north and west of Big Time Minneapolis, Gateway to the rugged north woods vacation land. BEAUTIFUL, PICTURESQUE, WATERFALL, EXPLICIT rustic bridge, waterwheels, mermaids and lovely castle. The place where you see people with cameras!
A NATURAL HISTORY OF HARMON PLACE It seems like only yesterday that Harmon Place was igneous rock, monocotyledons, and dinosaur dung. But as the millennia came and went, and the various conflagrations smoldered, the earth became rich in rubber, chrome and used car lots. The early Indians of the area held these nomadic herds of … Read more
NEW MINNEAPOLIS Auditorium and Convention Hall is one of the nation’s best facilities for conventions, trade shows, and sporting events. The $16 million, multi-purpose complex includes three giant exhibit areas with more than 160,000 square feet of space. The Convention Hall will seat 12,000; the Auditorium 9,000; the Exhibition Hall 2,500.
Saint Paul, the Capital City of Minnesota, is the center of a metropolitan community with a population in excess of a half million and enjoys the heritage of a century of leadership in the Northwest. Today, the one-time frontier days trading post is a well-developed, modern city with lines Of trade extending to all quarters … Read more
In 1903, Anna Quale Fergstad and a few other Norwegian women formed a literary club . After several meetings, Fergstad suggested the club take up charitable work. On October 19, 1903, members of the group formed the Lyngblomsten Society. Fergstad was named president. The name Lyngblomsten was selected to commemorate the national flower of Norway, … Read more
Company Called Finest In America Gives Spectacular Productions of Classics Twin Cities visitors are placing the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre first on their list of things to do these days. Called “the finest single theatre in America” by Show magazine, the company of more than 25 professional actors from across the country has won a reputation … Read more
The Capitol has a framework of steel set in walls of brick and stone, supported by columns of granite and marble. The framework as well as the floors, partitions, and roof are protected against fire by hollow tile.The exterior walls are of grayish white Georgia marble, and the foundation, terraces, outside balustrades, and steps are … Read more
Minneapolis is nationally at the forefront in constructing modern, congestion-free highways and freeways while preserving valuable parklands and residential properties. A “freeway ring” will soon encircle downtown Minneapolis, the final link in a system connecting downtown via freeways to all points, North, East, West and South. Minneapolis is the premier industrial city of the Upper … Read more