Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Emory T. Clark Founded Clark’s Super Gas in 1932. His first filling station sat on the corner of 60th St. and Greenfield Avenue in West Allis, Wisconsin, Clark Super Gas exclusively sold premium gas. In 1943, the company got into the oil refining business. By the middle of the 1950s, Clark’s operated almost 500 gas … Read more
It was only a short walk along Hawthorne Avenue from the stage door of the Orpheum theater at 10th and Hennepin to the six story brown brick hotel a couple blocks away. The Hastings Hosted all the big names that brought Broadway and Vaudeville to the Mill City. Even after the variety bills started to … Read more
Born in 1918, Hilda Moses grew up in Minneapolis. The eldest of 13 kids, she walked from her family home at 908 Emerson Avenue North to Sumner and Grant Elementary Schools. She was confirmed at the Basilica of Saint Mary and graduated from St. Margaret’s academy. She got her early dramatic experience at the University … Read more
El Salamnu Aleikum! Alelkum Es Salem! See? “Most soltenly” as Happy Hooligan would say. It’s only the Murat temple of Indianapolis, making the points of interest between that benighted country and Minneapolis. It’s the noise they make in transit. Murat temple decided to have a good time between times. Therefore, the members arranged a charming … Read more