I Love a Parade
Forty years after the The American Legion held their charter convention in Minneapolis the organization returned for their 41st national meeting. Over 50,ooo visitors and delegates came to town for the convention. Minneapolis seated 3,000 delegates. Speakers at the event included Vice President, Richard M. Nixon, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, former President Harry S. Truman [...]
Cinerama at the Century
The Century Theater opened as a vaudeville house called the Miles in 1908. In 1915, the place was rebuilt, and reopened as the Garrick Theater. In 1929 the Garrick was gutted and The Century Theatre was created in the old theater’s shell. The Century proclaimed the most modern movie house west of Chicago. The new [...]
Walking for Peace
On beautiful summer afternoon in 1958, seventy men, women and children staged a “Peace Walk” through downtown Minneapolis to demonstrate against nuclear weapons testing. Peace Walks were organized by citizen groups in America and the Soviet Union. The marches were part of a variety of initiatives aimed at promoting nuclear disarmament through direct diplomacy [...]
Lined up at the Lyceum
The first Minneapolis Auditorium opened at the corner of 11th Street and Nicollet Avenue in 1905 . It held offices for the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company company and housed a new civic music hall. The hall’s tubular pneumatic action Kimball organ was said to be the fourth largest in the world, and dubbed [...]
F.L. Wright’s 1907 Minneapolis Double Wides
These 1907 photos were taken around Minneapolis and environs by St. Paul photographer F.L. Wright. They were reprinted, hand colored and and published as postcards by the Wright, Barrett & Stilwell. The company was primarily involved in the sale roofing materials, but they did a brisk stationary and postcards business on the side. These are [...]
