Laughter, Falling Water and Time
CAPPELEN MEMORIAL BRIDGE, across the Mississippi River at Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed in the fall of 1923 at a cost of nearly one million dollars. The center span of four hundred feet is the longest concrete span in the world. Designed and built by the Minneapolis City Engineering Department.
Fairview Hospital’s recent $1,3000,000 building program gives us the finest facilities for your care and has helped make it one of the best equipped and staffed hospitals in the Midwest. Artist’s sketch of new addition to Fairview, that includes facilities for rehabilitation and Psychiatric patients, new clinical laboratory, class rooms and Chapel for the Nursing … Read more
The FLOUR MILLS OF GENERAL MILLS at MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., (daily capacity, 23,000 Cwt.) are located on the west bank of the Mississippi River at St. Anthony Falls, where the original mill was built by General C. C. Washburn in 1866. Today General Mills is the largest flour milling organization in the world employing over 12,000 … Read more
GOVERNMENT DAM AND LOCKS AND FORD BRIDGE, Minneapolis, Minn. Through these locks pass the Mississippi river boats and barges laden with coal, oil and industrial machinery. The head of navigation is at Minneapolis Municipal Dock at Washington Avenue South. U. S. GOVERNMENT DAM AND LOCKS AND FORD BRIDGE Minneapolis, Minn. Mississippi River Boats and Barges … Read more
Thirteen, 304-foot rib arches carry State Highway 55 across the Minnesota River valley between the Fort Snelling in Hennepin County and Mendota Heights in Dakota County. When the Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge was completed in 1926, Minnesota engineers, Walter Hall Wheeler and C.A.P. Turner took bragging rights for the the longest continuous, concrete arch bridge in … Read more
The largest flour mill in floor area, is the Washburn “A”, which stands on the west side between the “canal” and 2nd St. near 6th Av. S. Its construction was commenced immediately after the destruction of its predecessor by the great explosion of 1878 and it was finished in 1880. The mill covers a ground … Read more
But we want to see Fort Snelling, so we take the trolley car south. fare five cents, distance 2 1/2 miles. (at the junction of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers). Here is the site of the oldest fort west of the Mississippi river. A short walk brings you to the old stone block house, the … Read more
If there is one class of students at East High which deserves more than any other the honor and praise of the student body, that class is composed of those boys and girls who work their way through school. The rich man’s son (often a worthless sort, though sometimes quite the contrary) does not, and … Read more
One of the most beautiful buildings in Minneapolis is the Pillsbury branch library, erected In 1903, and is occupied by the East Side branch of the public library. It is located at University Av. and 1st Av. S. E. This structure represents a long-considered plan of the late John Pillsbury for the erection of a … Read more