Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Northwest’s Only Sea-Food Restaurant! Set your Sails for this Port and Hove to! Stow in the Best Sea-Food you ever ate, dripping in melted butter prepared by a Galley that knows their “Crew”! SPECIAL! NEW! LOBSTER. THERMIDOR PLATE! SPECIAL! NEW! CAPE COD PRIZE PACKET! Pompano au Natural! Fresh Broiled Nova Scotia Lobster! Tender Fresh Shrimps … Read more
Minneapolis’ Newest, Largest and Finest Motor Hotel. Offering all hotel facilities and services including Dining Room and Coffee Shop, convenient room service, TV and Telephones in all rooms, gift shop and drug counter, valet and laundry service. Deluxe two room suites and tastefully decorated, carpeted rooms offer a welcome of comfort for the weary traveler. … Read more
Fitted up entirely in the best style throughout. Kept on the European plan-meals just when you want- rates low. The proprietor would respectfully request a call from the people of St. Cloud and Northern Minnesota when they visit St. Paul and assures them that everything connected with the “Globe is first-class. Remember the place. -James … Read more
ST. ANTHONY FALLS BRIDGE at Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed in June, 1918, at a cost of $865,000. It is the largest concrete arch bridge, built on a reverse curve, that spans the Mississippi River at any point from source to its mouth. Designed and built by the Minneapolis City Engineering Department.
The Young Quinlan Building was designed by Magney and Tusler with Frederick Ackerman. Miss Quinlan spared no expense when building her elegant five-story building at the corner of Nicollet Mall and Ninth Street. She sought out an architect that would design her “home” with an Old World atmosphere. The building’s dedication ceremony and open house … Read more
The Salisbury & Satterlee Company Manufacturers of Beds and Bedding Are an Important Stone in the Commercial Foundation on Rests Prosperity of Minneapolis. SALISBURY & SATTERLEE manufacturers of Metal Beds and Bedding, is one of Minneapolis’ oldest and largest industrial organizations. The founder, Mr. Thomas G. Salisbury, came to Minneapolis in 1876, and in 1877, … Read more
NEW ST.PAUL SHERMAN HOTEL Angus Sherman, owner of the Sherman hotel in St. Paul filed plans today for a new $1.000.000 hotel to be builtin St. Paul. To be constructed on the corner of Fourth and Sibley streets,opposite the old Sherman hotel. the building will be fireproof and have 300 rooms. -Minneapolis Star August 13th, … Read more
Decades before Holiday Station Stores, Pump and Munch, Super America an British Petroleum came up over the horizon, South Minneapolis was littered with tiny independently owned service stations. Many of these little building are still standing. Some have been repurposed as law offices, flowers shops, permaculture cafes and acupuncture clinics. Their parking lots and driveways … Read more
Built by a guy from Philedelphia named James Ogden, the Continental Hotel opened in 1910 as the Ogden Apartments. The building was designed local architect, Adam Dorr. A 1911-12 city directory, lists 35 residents at the Ogden Apartments. 10 worked as schoolteachers, two were lawyers. Other occupants included, the owner of the Minneapolis Lumber Co., … Read more