Longfellow Gardens
Originally from upstate New York, Robert Jones arrived to Minneapolis in 1876. He got a delivering meat, managed to scrape up $500 and bought a fish market on Hennepin Avenue. Jones was known “The Oyster King” after he took out an ad in the St. Paul Pioneer Press with an illustration of himself as a [...]
A Great Place to Visit During the Great Depression
The Depression Era in Minnesota 1929 The Great Depression begins in Minnesota with the bankruptcy of key employers in Minneapolis and quickly spreads to the rest of the state. 1931 Ancient remains of 20,000-year-old skeleton dubbed “Minnesota Man” found in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. “Food riots” begin to break out in parts of [...]
The Sinister Dr. Dight’s Tree Residence
Eugenicist physician, Charles F. Dight purchased his lot near Minnehaha Falls from Robert Fish Jones. He built his tree house at 4818 39th Avenue South in 1914. According to an article in the Minneapolis Tribune published the same year, “The queer house” was built on iron posts and had a cupola big enough [...]
The Laughing Cocktail
I remember seeing this recipe in a wood covered copy of “Just Cocktails” by W.C. Fields. I guess it was the that caught my eye! The drink is very similar to a Bronx, but in this cocktail the vermouth and orange juice ratios are switched up. The Minnehaha uses more vermouth and backs off [...]
The Lovers.
Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the [...]
