Laughter, Falling Water and Time
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Way back in 1875, Minneapolis Township built a two-room, wooden school on the southwest corner of Minnehaha Avenue and 38th Street. At that time the school was part of what was District #113, It became part of the city school system when the neighborhood was annexed in 1887, and was named “Bancroft” the same year. … Read more
The Minneapolis City Hall was designed by Long and Keys in 1887. The building replaced the previous city hall a few blocks away between Nicollet and Hennepin Avenues. Construction began in 1889, and a cornerstone located thirty feet above the sidewalk was laid on July 16, 1891. Some of the individual granite blocks cut from … Read more
Reason No. 2 – Why Minneapolis Celebrates week of July 2 to 8. Because it has more manufacturing, giving steady employment in proportion to population than other cities, there being over 1,000 manufacturing concerns in 137 lines of industry, with 20,000 skilled laborers on payrolls that aggregate $15,000,000 annually; capital, $80,000,000.
The city has a grand park and boulevard system. Eighteen parks, and over twenty miles of boulevard drive, one. hundred feet in width, around Lakes Harriet and Mendoza, and Lake of the Isles, and through beautiful residence sections of the city. There are over 1,500 acres in the parks. The area of Lakes Harriet and … Read more
Why Minneapolis Celebrates week of July 2 to 8. Because it is wholesale and jobbing headquarters for nine northwestern states, distributing goods annually to the amount of over $300,000,000, and a retail business that approximates $35,000,000 each year.
Edith Day was Born in Minneapolis on April 10, 1896. She grew up in her parnets home at 2219 Lyndale Avenue South. Her father, Oscar Day was a newspaperman and dramatic critic for the Minneapolis Tribune. In 1912 she landed a role in a play called On a Roof Garden performed Wednesdays and Thursdays at … Read more
Mabel Julienne Scott was born in Minnesota on November 2, 1892. The daughter of Mattie and Joseph Scott, 3014 Girard Avenue North, graduated from North High School in 1914. While she was still in school Scott played occasional engagements with stock companies at the Shubert Theater as an extra. After she graduated from Northwestern Conservatory … Read more
On Hwy. 36—10th Ave. at 4th St. S. E. Minneapolis 14, Minn. — FEdera1 3-5313 On the edge of University of Minnesota Campus and University Hospitals, across the River from downtown. T. V. —Air-Conditioning Phone in each room — Fireproof — Individual temperature controls — Inside corridors to all rooms AMPLE ADJACENT PARKING
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