Minnesota Rockabilly
Great garage type rockabilly on the Gaity label out of St. Paul. This is one the holy grails of Minnesota rockabillies and to rockabilly collectors in general. This group also recorded as the Blue Kats.
Back Then Even Hubert Humphrey had Soul!
” I want to have soul music everywhere so that the president or the Queen will take their shoes off and get it down” in August of 1968 Hubert Humphrey made a pre-convention campaign appearance James Brown in the Watts section of Los Angeles, where Humphrey targeted “black business ownership” as the subject of his [...]
1944 Minneapolis Map
Hand drawn in black and white, then printed for a 1944 atlas, notice the names of buildings as well as streets. Along the bottom of the map it says, “Map of central Minneapolis, the largest city of Minnesota. The great water power of the Falls of St. Anthony and the transportation facilities of the city [...]
Nel bar di Minneapolis
The Quartetto Cetra was a popular vocal quartet and “radio vision” act in Italy for over four decades Their considerable vocal skills and amazing harmonies were set to lyrics, often humorous but always in good taste. The group originally styled itself after the Mills Brothers, but was somewhat pre-empted in Italy by Rock and Roll [...]
Hopkins Then and Now
The first settlers of Hopkins showed up in 1852 as the area west of Minneapolis opened up after being explored by men stationed at Fort Snelling. The roots of the town begin in 1887 with the building of the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company to make farm equipment . After a time theMinneapolis Threshing Company changed [...]
