32 Below, 49 Years Ago
Here’s an old photo of the vapor clouds billowing above the 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 turned up in [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Building St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Edina
Here’s a little footage of the 1938 construction of St. Stephen’s church on West 50th in Edina. Saint Stephen’s 75th anniversary is coming up next year. This film was made by village recorder, Ben B. Moore. The movie also features a glimpse of the old Wooddale School, a quieter 50th Street and 1930′s construction equipment.
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 [...]
