The Excelsior Streetcar Line
The Excelsior Streetcar Line began operation in 1999. Excelsior is located about fifteen miles west of downtown Minneapolis. The restored line runs between Water Street and Old Excelsior Road on the former Minneapolis and Saint Louis Railway right-of-way now used by the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority as a bicycle trail. Featured in [...]
Parkwood Knolls
In 1949 the Edina city council was hoping to replicate the success of the Country Club neighborhood in the bluffs and hills on the city’s western edge. One of the Country Club Districts pre-eminent builders, Carl Hansen managed to persuade the city to view the lush rolling meadows to the west as a pastoral, [...]
Jazz Age Health Care in Wayzata
Scenes from the Minnetonka Hospital, Martinson Clinic and surrounding area on Lake Street in Wayzata. The Clinic was founded in 1928. I can’t find a date for the footage, but I’m guessing it was taken just a couple years later. The Minnetonka Hospital was located in a house built by early Wayzata doctor James [...]
The Depot at Crystal Bay Then and Now
The township of Crystal Bay was incorporated into the city Orono in 1955. The little neighborhood still has its own post office with and its own ZIP code 55323. The new 13.5-mile Dakota trail offers a spectacular view of Lake Minnetonka and follows the route of the former Dakota Rail Corridor through St. Bonifacius, Minnetrista, [...]
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 [...]
