Minneapolis

Over on 15th Avenue Then and Now

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Some builders are beginning to recognize that beauty in the small home means good proportion, good design, and a certain simplicity that is the direct outgrowth of a well worked- out plan. Making a thing beautiful is not necessarily adding ornament, but rather, it is a simplifying process. The trained architect is not an inefficient, … Read more

That Twine Binder

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The Minneapolis Harvester Binder HAS ESTABLISHED ITS SUPERIORITY For close cutting, to secure lodged and short grain. For absolute certainty in binding, using the least twine, and binding tightest bundles. For perfect separation of bundles, uniform in size, allowing better shocking and stacking. For a Reel easily adjusted. while in motion, to all positions required, … Read more

Pillsbury’s Best

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A Saving of One-Fifth Flour. Pillsbury’s Best Flour is the cheapest flour also with which to make Pies and Cakes. Pastry recipes usually are made for flour containing much less gluten than does Pillsbury’s Best Flour. In following recipes, except such as are made especially for Pillsbury’s Best Flour, use one-fifth less flour than such … Read more

At the Merry Mar-Key

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Enjoy a delightful evening of fun, entertainment, and dancing in the relaxing living-room atmosphere of the Mar-Key Club. Select dinner menu served until 10 p.m. Carol Martin trio for your listening and dancing pleasure from 8:30 Monday thru Friday. Noon businessmen’s lunch served by Mar-Key Monday thru Friday. Bikini Girls, 11:30-2:00. Meet top sports personalities … Read more

Chateau de Paris

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Welcome to the Chateau de Paris—the “Castle” of Paris! Look around you! Everything you see has its memories of “Gay Paree”. The Chandelier in the foyer graced the salon of a fine old Chateau for centuries. And the flag bedecked shield above the door is the coat of arms of the City, of Paris portraying, … Read more

Seven Seas

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In 1923 the Minneapolis Park Board voted to purchase a prime piece of real estate for this little park on Lowry Hill. The scheme had been in the works for some time. A year earlier, Landscape architect  Phelps Wyman drew up a plan that included a pergola and a man-made cascade running  through a series … Read more

Movie Nites

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The Uptown opened as the Lagoon Theater in 1913.  After new sound equipment was installed, the theater’s name was  changed on  April 11, 1929. The Uptown was  rebuilt and redesigned by the architectural  firm of Liebenberg and  Kaplan after a fire tore through the building in 1939. The theater was closed briefly in 1975 but … Read more