The Nokomis Theater
38th and Chicago has looked like trouble to me for as long as I can remember. I guess that’s why the city purchased the old Nokomis Theater using city development money and decided to lease it to ArtSpace, one of the country’s foremost real estate developers for the arts. The Nokomis Theater was originally built [...]
Highland Hove’s Then and Now
In 1922 Russel T. Lund went to work at the Lake and Hennepin Hoves in Minneapolis. After a couple months, he became a full-time employee and a 10 percent partner in the cheese and cracker department. 1939, Lund became becoming a full-partner in the Hoves perishable departmen and opened a new Hoves grocery store [...]
Temple of Aaron Then and Now
Ground was broken for the Temple of Aaron on Misssissippi Boulevard in 1954, construction began in 1955, the cornerstone setting took place on September 30, 1956. A couple months later American Jewish World magazine described the Temple’s dedication: “It seemed as if the whole of Minnesota’s countryside rejoiced and lent its tranquil tenor to [...]
Zombie Dogs at the Purina Mill
If for some reason Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe have any objections to the use of their sacred spring and ancient burial ground as the setting for a low budget zombie movie or if the appropriate permits can not be obtained from the Department of the interior for filming on the old U.S. Bureau of Mines [...]
Camp Coldwater Zombies
The abandoned Bureau of Mines buildings around Coldwater Spring have been attracting graffiti artists copper thieves and crack heads, ever since the federal government shut them down in 1995. The Twin Cities office of the National Park Service budgeted $3.5-million to remove the blue tiled, Soviet styled buildings and restore the 27-acre property to [...]
