Nile

The New Nile

Sydney, William and Julius Volk arrived in Minneapolis by way of Lithuania at the dawn of the Jazz Age.  When the Great Depression hit they took out loans, pooled their savings and went into the movie theater business.  During the 1930’s, old silent movies houses were retrofitted for sound and new theaters opened all over … Read more

Avalon Fine Arts Then and Now

There’s been a theater on the northeast corner of Lake and 15th for about 110 years now. The first was a one story wooden structure that was originally going to be called the Cort. In 1911, while the building was still under construction the city inspector said the walls would not do. The place was … Read more