Harry W. Smith Ambulance Then and Now
Ambulances parked in front of 2100 Lyndale in 1955. Smith Ambulance was started on or before 1935 by Harry Smith.Minneapolis General purchased its first motorized ambulance in 1911. Emergency Ambulance, Inc. began operation in 1913. The competition between Emergency Ambulance and Smith was intense Emergency Ambulance took out an ad in 1938 proclaiming , ” [...]
James Ballentine VFW 246 Post Then and Now
This little VFW just north of Lyndale and Lake has been voted the best Uptown Karaoke by City Pages for years and was given a 75% ranking by Esquire magazine..The James Ballentine Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 246 has been built upon millions of volunteer hours supporting youth, patriotic and educational efforts, and unwavering services [...]
Cinerama at the Century
The Century Theater originally opened as a vaudeville house called the Miles in 1908. In 1915, the theater was rebuilt, and reopened as the Garrick Theater. In 1929 The Century Theatre was created in the shell of the Garrick and proclaimed the most modern movie house west of Chicago. The theater struggled in the depression [...]
CU Project Powerline Protests
Here’s a clip from the documentary, ‘Powerplay’ showing one a many anti-powerline demonstrations took place at the substation in Delano in October of 1978. This segment, features The arrest of the singer Dan Reed who was famous in the Eastern Bloc at the time. The CU Project Controversy involved years of protest against a proposed [...]
