Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Reason No. 17—WHY MINNEAPOLIS CELEBRATES week of July 2 to 8. Because real estate prices are lower than any other city of the same population for property steadily increasing in value, which can be depended upon to pay an average of six percent from rentals.
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
Here’s a good story on a Minneapolis chiro-practor. He started his treatment on the new patient by rubbing his back. Then he turned the patient over and applied the treatment in front. The patient stood the tickling as long as he could, then with a look of content in his eyes he sez, “Kiss me, … Read more
Grand Ball at Night Drill Teams Compete During the Day Minneapolis, Minnesota June 23, 1931: Beneath red canopies such as begot London’s thoroughfares as the Crusaders departed, 10,000 plumed Knights of Templar paraded before their leaders today as part of the triennial conclave of the order. Each of the 1700 commanderies representing 47 states took … Read more
The old home that became the Glen Morris Inn on Christmas Lake was built in the late 1800’s for Manitoba Railroad civil engineer, Charles J. Morris. The original two story residence was described in Diamond’s Tourist newspaper as, “one of the most beautiful estates in the area.” Morris owned 1000 acres on Christmas Lake and … Read more
In April, 1936, Fortune magazine hired Austria-Hungary-born American writer and illustrator, Ludwig Bemelmans for an exhaustive article profiling the rather bleak fortunes of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I can almost hear our local boosters howling across the years. Fortune painted thoroughly unflattering, gloomy picture of the metropolis at the center of the most radical state … Read more
“The building stands on the south-west corner of Hennepin Avenue and 10th Street, one of the broadest avenues and one of the widest streets in the city. A bend to the northwest in the avenue, beginning at 10th Street, and a bend to the northeast in Tenth Street, beginning just before the avenue is reached, … Read more
Hail Columbia, happy land! Hail, ye heroes, heav’n-born band, Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause, Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause, And when the storm of war was gone Enjoy’d the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA The skyline Of the city. Minneapolis is a beautiful city with its gleaming skyscrapers, its modern mills, its magnificent homes and its spacious parks. 1 . . Bambi Land. Nisswa 2 . . Headwaters of the Mississippi, Lake Itasca 3 . . Itasca State Park 4. . Runestone replica, Alexandria. Minn. 5 . … Read more