There is only one in Minneapolis…
There’s only one girl in Minneapolis and two or three in Saint Paul I knew a girl in Robbinsdale, but she was too tall There’s only one girl in Minneapolis I don’t know any in Golden Valley There’s one out in Edina, my sister Sally There’s only one in Minneapolis She’s all I need to [...]
Swell Shopping at Southdale
Groundbreaking for Southdale took place in 1954. 800 construction workers were used to build the two-story, 800,000 ft shopping mall. When it was completed two years later at a cost of cost twenty million dollars, the mall had 5,200 parking spaces and room for 72 tenants. Southdale was developed by the Dayton’s and their [...]
32 Below, 49 Years Ago
Here’s an old photo of the vapor clouds billowing above the Minneapolis skyline on January 15th, 1963. The temperature dropped to a near record of negative thirty-two in Minneapolis. It was even colder in Edina where the city issued warnings advising citizens to stop using with metal cutlery after hundreds of cake eaters were [...]
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, [...]
Highland Hove’s Then and Now
In 1922 Russel T. Lund went to work at the Lake and Hennepin Hoves in Minneapolis. After a couple months, he became a full-time employee and a 10 percent partner in the cheese and cracker department. 1939, Lund became becoming a full-partner in the Hoves perishable departmen and opened a new Hoves grocery store [...]
