Lounge Pierre

Beauty, Elegance Combine to Make Radisson Room Enchanted Beauty and elegance, with the accent on simplicity, combine to make the Lounge Pierre, just opened at Hotel Radisson, an enchanted spot of continental brilliance.The Lounge Pierre connects with the Chateau Terrace through an ingenious set of triple sliding doors, the first in Minneapolis and the northwest. … Read more

Fortune and the Fate of the Twin Cities

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