Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Bounded by Fourth and Jackson streets on the south and east, and St. Peter and Eighth streets on the west and north, with extensions on West and East Seventh. If we are near to Robert street, we will do well to start from the corner of Fifth, on Robert. where we find with in two … Read more
Minneapolis today is harboring in motion picture actress who still believes in Santa Claus. And old Chris Kringle may be wary or he will be caught in his act on Christmas Eve when he emerges from the chimney at the home of Miss Margaret Quimby at 4715 Bryant avenue South. For Margaret will catch him … Read more
Another big star of the silent silver screen, June Elvidge was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1893. At the ripe old age of 22 she made her stage debut in New York City in 1914. Her screen debut came the following year in the role Mrs. Van Allen in Sam Shubert’s film, The Lure … Read more
The big names played at Fifth and St.Peter back in the heyday of St. Paul’s Orpheum Theater. Sarah Bernhard, Lionel Barrymore, Eddie Cantor, Al Joson, W.C. Fields and Will Rogers all took a turn there on the vaudeville stage. The Orpheum opened in 1906 and played host to traveling acts for at least 17 years … Read more
It is seeing the city, often for the first time—exploring its streets and staring at its store windows. It is boys gawking, and girls blushing, at the fleshy photographs of stripteasers outside the Hennepin Avenue joints. It is seeing a movie at one of the rows of theaters with the flashing lights. It is looking … Read more