Laughter, Falling Water and Time
South High School. Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of six high schools, cost including new addition, but without equipment, $600,000, caring for about 2000 pupils; has auditorium seating 1860 manual training domestic science and commercial courses; gymnasium, shower, bath, penny lunch, conservatory, faculty of 80. Our Public School property is valued at $8,500,00. –Minneapolis Selling Co. Postcard-1920 … Read more
The Calhoun theater, notable among neighborhood theaters of Minneapolis as the largest and best equipped reopened January 29th after being closed for a fortnight for enlargement. The enlarged house seats 1480 and is with a single exception the largest motion picture house in the city, the exception being the New Garrick, one of the downtown … Read more
Some folks say the estimated number of motels in America tripled between 1940 and 1960. People on the move with money to spend found modern motels with well-appointed rooms out on the edges of just about every metropolitan area. Air conditioning, television, radios, tiled bathrooms, easy chairs, coin operated vibrating beds, swimming pools and movie … Read more
There has been a pavilion on the north end of Lake Harriet since 1888. The first one was built by the Minneapolis Street Railway Company on a piece of property that belonged to trolley tycoon, Thomas Lowry. The grand pavilion served as a motor line station and featured a 1500 seat auditorium. Summer concerts, plays, … Read more
Completed in 1907 at a a cost of 450,000, the St. Paul Auditorium was located downtown between West Fifth and West Fourth Streets on the far side of Rice Park. Designed by architects, Charles Reed and Allen Stern, the West Fourth Street side had a 2nd, 3rd and 4th level rows of windows. The West … Read more
Here’s a good story on a Minneapolis chiro-practor. He started his treatment on the new patient by rubbing his back. Then he turned the patient over and applied the treatment in front. The patient stood the tickling as long as he could, then with a look of content in his eyes he sez, “Kiss me, … Read more