Anoka Falls

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!

Normal at the Normandy

The “Normandy Residence Hotel” opened in 1925, serving both long-term residents and short-term guests. The hotel had 52 guest rooms, drug store, grocery store, lobby, ladies parlor, writing room, and a dining room. The basement dining room, operated as a speakeasy during prohibition.In 1941, John F. Noble, a local entrepreneur and son of Swedish immigrants, … Read more

Parking at Grain Belt

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

At the Athletic Club

MINNEAPOLIS ATHLETIC CLUB THE CAVALIER ROOM A unique friendly room in which to meet your fellow members. Air conditioned and newly decorated. There are those old-timers who would say the “athletic” has gone out of the Minneapolis Athletic Club,but the club’s president would answer— “THE OLDER you get, the faster you ran as a kid.” … Read more

Lounge Pierre

Beauty, Elegance Combine to Make Radisson Room Enchanted Beauty and elegance, with the accent on simplicity, combine to make the Lounge Pierre, just opened at Hotel Radisson, an enchanted spot of continental brilliance.The Lounge Pierre connects with the Chateau Terrace through an ingenious set of triple sliding doors, the first in Minneapolis and the northwest. … Read more

The Anglesey Cafe

THE ANGLESEY CAFE 14th and Hennepin Minneapolis. Minnesota Telephone – FederaI 6-6374 THE ISLE OF ANGLESEY (Ang-la-see) — The emerald isle, Ireland has long been a theme tor song and fable. Off the north coast of this green “bit o’ heaven” whose very name is a world-wide symbol. Is a tiny gem of an isle … Read more

Casablanca Nights

It’s no wonder that the Casablanca, 408 Hennepin Ave. plays to a full house every night of the week, when we take into consideration the fact that they provide guests with more individual entertainers than any club in the northwest, on an average.The Casablanca, now under the management of William ‘Bill’ Donnelly, will continue to … Read more

The Cafe Exceptionale

The New Charlie’s Cafe Exceptionale is a superb adaptation of the origina French Provincial architecture charming in 1949 as it was at its height in France between 1710 and 1795. Its rustic simplicity was typical of the homes of prosperous farmers, and later, well-to-do landowners and nobility. The fine contrasts of warm honey toned oak … Read more

National Hotel

Mr. S. E. Hoopes, proprietor of the New National Hotel, Minneapolis, has found that his Dutch is entirely inadequate of accommodating his patrons and has decided to enlarge it to three times its present capacity. He has  already let the contract for building the additional room and other improvements to cost $22 000. The new … Read more