Laughter, Falling Water and Time
The complex, concrete multiple-arch Robert Street Bridge crosses the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul. The bridge accommodates river traffic, a railroad crossing, and roadways. The bridge is also notable for its monumental reinforced concrete rainbow arch. It was designed by Toltz, King & Day and built by Fegles Construction Company between 1924 and 1926. … Read more
An old-world garden, with a replica of a Bavarian wayside inn, will be constructed at the intersection of Broadway and Marshall Streets. in Northeast Minneapolis. The garden, at the northwest corner of the St. Anthony renewal area, will be dedicated next month as Grain Belt Park and presented to the city by the Minneapolis Brewing … Read more
About twenty-five miles east and south of Minneapolis, County Seat of Dakota County, a portion of the city of Hastings stretches over into Washington County. Built near the complicated confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers. This fine city is named for the first elected governor of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley. Downtown is … Read more
Interstate Park, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and Taylor Falls, Minnesota, 30 mites from Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The rock ledges at the Dalles are ancient lava flows. of which seven may be identified, rising like giant steps above the rivet. The lava. or trap, is well jointed. so that there are vertical precipices and isolated … Read more
Indian Mounds park, St. Paul, offers one of the best transportation panoramas going.It overlooks the St. Paul municipal barge terminal, Holman municipal airport, acres of rail-road trackage. heavily traveled highways and the Mississippi river, on Sundays usually bearing speed boats.You can find it from downtown St. Paul by driving northeastward uphill across the Kellogg boulevard … Read more
The water supply of Minneapolis is obtained from the mighty Mississippi River through an intake pipe reaching the some distance up river from the city limits. Pumps force this water into reservoirs from which it is distributed through the mains and pipes by gravity.
Construction on Lock and Dam No. 2 began at the end of the 1890, and was finally completed in 1907. The structure featured a small lock for steamships. People on the fun side of the river called this the Meeker Island Lock and Dam because it was built near the enchanted island named after its … Read more
The University Theater operates the SHOW- BOAT on the Mississippi River every summer, during the months Of June, July, and August. Address: Showboat, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis 14, Minnesota, U. S. A. All seats for all performances reserved—$2.OO. Tickets may be purchased at the Scott Hall Box Office, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455. Phone— 373-2337. Also Daytons … Read more
“HI” OVER EAST AREA MINNEAPOLIS CAMPUS University Of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota View of the campus with Mississippi River in the foreground. The river is the scene Of many Summer- time campus activities one unique spectacle is the Centennial Showboat which performs to sellout crowds throughout its summer season.