Franklin Co-operative Creamery Then and Now
Then Franklin Co-operative Creamery, 2601 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis in 1921 This building was constructed in 1920 to house a new milk-processing plant. It grew into a huge business in just a few years. By 1924, profits from the sale of high-quality milk, cream, butter, buttermilk, cottage cheese and ice cream were over $3 million dollars a year. The business employed 418 people and had 175 delivery routes that served over 50,000 customers a day. An early annual report... Read More
West St. Paul is West of What?
In the parking lot of Signal Hills Mall revel in the urban sprawl of West St. Paul! Read More
Man v. Food: Gasthof Zur Gemutlichkeit in Minneapolis
46th and Hiawatha Then and Now
Then McNew-Nelson Standard Service Gas Station, 4601 Hiawatha Avenue, 1956 and Now You can check out this city’s 2001 master plan for 46th and Hiawatha by clicking the image below! Video taken from LRT starting for Hiawatha Avenue and 46th street Read More
Free Bus Rides
Nicollet Mall ca. 1968 Last week Metro Transit launched free bus service on Nicollet Mall. The service is available seven days a week on Nicollet between Washington Avenue and Grant Street. Sadly, free service is limited to the buses flashing “Free Ride” on their overhead signs. Other buses will charge the regular fare of 50 cents for a ride along the Mall. When I was a kid this was called the dime zone! There should be a free ride bus along Nicollet Mall every 10 minutes... Read More
Seven Corners Now and Then
Now and Then Many decades ago there was a huge old drugstore at Seven Corners. The place had cheap apartments upstairs. Hubert Humphrey and wife with first child lived in one just down the hall from Fred Manfred. Fieke Fiekema, writing under his pen name at the time, had a new baby new too and there’s a story that the Humphreys’ loaned their baby crib to the Fiekemas’ from time to time. The Strib did a story last November about a new light rail line reconnecting... Read More
2107 Milwaukee Avenue South Now and Then
During the late 19th century, the population of Minneapolis was growing rapidly, increasing 351 percent from 1880 to 1890. With the number of people moving into the city, lower-cost housing was needed for immigrants who were new to Minnesota. The street had originally been platted as an alley between 22nd and 23rd Avenues South, but William Ragan developed it as a street and labeled it 22½ Avenue. The houses were situated close together on narrow lots, with very narrow side... Read More
Positively Fourth and Nicollet
