Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Dear Green Jeans, While at the “Minnesota Stale Fair”, Shaveless Hardjaw and I plan to visit the large factory illustrated on the other side. They tell me that here, under one roof are manufactured a larger variety of foods than are manufactured in any other similar organization in the United States. Shaveless is anxious to … Read more
TODAY, with gasoline scarce along the Atlantic coast, certain U. S. naval officers remember with regret a mysterious inventor who turned up during the last war and said he was able TO MAKE GASOLINE OUT OF WATER. THE STORY SEEMS LIKE A MYTH. BUT IT IS RECORDED IN THE C. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS 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
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
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
Conservatory at Como Park, housing a wide selection of flowers and other botanical specimens from all parts of the world. Many beautiful flower shows are held here yearly. KEY TO VIEWS :— S—St. Paul’s Catholic Church T—Minnehaha Falls P—Union Station A Capitol Building U—Como Park Conservatory L—The Mall
The Rev. Benjamin Close organized the Market Street church on December 31, 1848. The modest house of worship, built for less than $3000 was the first Protestant church in the territory and the first brick building in St. Paul. In 1855 a new church building was built at 9th and Jackson. The congregation had agreed … Read more
Brown & Bigelow was founded in 1896 by Herbert Bigelow and Hirm Brown. Throughout its history, Brown & Bigelow has been a St. Paul resident. In its first 11 years, the firm outgrew three locations and then settled on a 17-acre site that was once the Lexington horse race track in the Hamline-Midway area of … Read more
One of the largest and most striking down town office buildings in the very heart of the business district. It is located on the corner of Fourth and Minnesota streets, opposite the First National Bank and the State Savings Bank, one block south from the Merchants National Bank and the Bank of Commerce, two blocks … Read more