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  Such Fun at Sleizer’s Club 21

  Sleizer’s Club once served man sized drinks in a distinctively different Atmosphere. If you walked in on a weekend nights you could dine and dance to the swell sounds of Rollie Anderson’s  Hammond Organ  and the “Sleizer Family” dance band. On August 3rd, 1946 Billboard Magazine reported a $10,000 damage suit was instituted by Sleizer’s [...]

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  Minnesota’s Island in the Sun

  Built in 1961, the elegant Ambassador Resort Motor Hotel was located just 5 minutes from downtown Minneapolis at Highways 12 and 100. For almost thirty years, the Ambassador was Minnesota’s island in the Sun. Under that big bubbling dome, they controlled the weather so we could have fun and relaxation. The hotel’s King’s Courtyard had [...]

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  Park Avenue Congregational Church Then and Now

  The Second Congregational Church of Minneapolis was first known as Vine Street Church and later called Park Avenue Congregational. The church founded in 1867 in an enclave of New Englanders on what was the city’s near south side. In the 1870s the first Scandinavian immigrants started showing up in Minneapolis and many settled in and [...]

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  St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Then and Now

  The original St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church was dedicated  at the corner of Mackubin and Ashland on July 29, 1881. Less than twenty years later, the 600-member congregation decided that a larger church was needed. That church had been expanded four times over that period, and there was no more room to grow. In [...]

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  One Hundred and One Years Old

  The historic Saint Paul Hotel celebrated it’s centennial on April 18, 2010. Since 1910, the hotel has played host to U.S. Presidents, international leaders, royalty, gangsters, movie stars, athletes, business leaders, newly weds and Minneapolitans desperate for a little class. Here’s a timeline from the Saint Paul’s website 1910 “St. Paul’s Million-Dollar Hotel” opens with [...]

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  Under the Wabasha Street Bridge

  The folks from the Minnesota Boat Club have been rowing on the river since 1870. Located under the Wabasha Bridge on the west end of Raspberry Island, the original boathouse was a wooden structure. It was replaced in the early 1900′s by the existing boathouse shown in this postcard. The flood waters of of 1965 [...]

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  Swell Shopping at Southdale

    Groundbreaking for Southdale took place in 1954. 800 construction workers were used to build the two-story, 800,000 ft shopping mall. When it was completed two years later at a cost of cost twenty million dollars, the mall had 5,200 parking spaces and room for 72 tenants. Southdale was developed by the Dayton’s and their [...]

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  Wonderland on Lake Street

  Wonderland Amusement Park opened in 1905 and operated every summer until 1911. Visitors to Wonderland  came on the street car from all over the cities to see tightrope walkers, acrobats, plays, a 120-foot illuminated tower and to try out the park’s Old Mill Boat Ride. The only evidence other than old pictures and postcards that [...]

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  Having Fun with the Shriners in Minneapolis

  The Twin Cities has played host to numerous Shriner conventions. In 1908 these postcard were issued and the Romanesque-style Masonic Temple on Hennepin was decorated and a variety of events were held around town especially for our funny, fez wearing friends. the Shriners were started by 13 New York City Masons in 1872. Only top-level [...]

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