Laughter, Falling Water and Time
In the late 1960s, when I was living at the Sherwood Hotel on Nicollet Island. Nice place. It had hot and cold running cockroaches and the beds were actually the back seats of old Buicks. But it was a place where a man could do so some serious thinking, and it was the ideal setting … Read more
In a nation noted for the number and the size of its auditoriums, Minneapolis today boasts the second largest completed auditorium in the United States. Minneapolis’ new civic center has a seating capacity of 10,545. The Cleveland auditorium, the largest completed structure of its kind in point of seating capacity, seats 11,200. A new auditorium … Read more
Featuring the homelike spirit, The Buckingham is an up to date fireproof building of the first class type built with the comfort of its guests always in mind. Situated way from the turmoil of downtown and still only a very short walk from the business section. The Nicollet car line is but one block distant. … Read more
The Antlers sat for decades at the edge of the Lyndale dell and forest. The building offered a large entrance hall into each apartment, comfortably sized rooms with concealed bed, dressing table, glass and lighting fixtures. There were beautiful, large tiled baths with porcelain tubs, sinks and toilets. Full length mirrors were built into the … Read more
Minneapolis and St. Paul (the Twin Cities, U. S. A.) form practically one community. Their limits merge without visible separation. Twenty six of the twenty-nine railroad lines serving Minneapolis also serve St. Paul. Four interurban electric lines and fast motor buses connect their business districts. Together, they constitute one of the largest and most important … Read more
The largest flour mill in floor area, is the Washburn “A”, which stands on the west side between the “canal” and 2nd St. near 6th Av. S. Its construction was commenced immediately after the destruction of its predecessor by the great explosion of 1878 and it was finished in 1880. The mill covers a ground … Read more
Holy Rosary Church, under charge of the Dominican Fathers, was founded in the beginning of 1878. Towards the close of 1877, Rt. Rev. Bishop Thomas L. Grace, D.D., of the Order St. Dominic, at the suggestion of St. Rev. John Ireland, D. D.,Coadjutor Bishop, of St. Paul, entered into communication with the Very Rev. Stephen … Read more
The suggestion made by The Tribune that the new Prospect Park School be named after Sidney Pratt, the son of the mayor of Minneapolis, who died in the hospital at far away Manila where he went as a volunteer to answer to the call of his country meets with nothing but approval on all sides. … Read more
At the beginning of the year this important work had advanced far enough to assure its completion for the proposed Civic Celebration. It was, however, evident that every day would have to be taken ad vantage of, and the work on the four bridges was therefore pushed as fast as weather and other controlling conditions … Read more