Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Remind me not to be a detective. I was in Boston last week on a business trip and was determined to try a lobster roll. As a fan of our own Smack Shack, I wanted to see how the original compares. So leaving the National Park tour of the Boston Harbor Islands (highly recommended) I … Read more
Built in 1961, the elegant Ambassador Resort Motor Hotel was located just 5 minutes from downtown Minneapolis at Highways 12 and 100. For almost thirty years, the Ambassador was Minnesota’s island in the Sun. Under that big bubbling dome, they controlled the weather so we could have fun and relaxation. The hotel’s King’s Courtyard had … Read more
The folks from the Minnesota Boat Club have been rowing on the river since 1870. Located under the Wabasha Bridge on the west end of Raspberry Island, the original boathouse was a wooden structure. It was replaced in the early 1900′s by the existing boathouse shown in the postcard below. In 1949, the United States … Read more
City of Minneapolis. Two large picture windows facing north near the top of the Wells Fargo tower with no buildings to obstruct my view of the Mississippi rambling northward. Peregrine falcons nest across the street and animate the scenery gorgeously swooping and diving. The only downside is there are no buildings to stop the bracing … Read more
The new campus of the St. Paul Bible College is located just off U.S. Highway 7, 27 miles Southwest of downtown Minneapolis and less then 7 miles from the suburban community of Mound, Minnesota.
East Lake was one of 13 library branches established by the first female head librarian at the Minneapolis Public Library. Gratia Countryman made it her mission to bring people closer to books. She served in the position from 1904 to 1936. The East Lake Library was designed by Jerome Paul Jackson. The modest building was … Read more
Have you ever waked up in the morning with the feeling that your head had rested on a rock? The chances are that most of the blame lay with the stiff head bar of your bed-spring. The Duplexe Spring makes all other bed-springs out of date with its wonderful new comfort feature. No bed is … Read more
It is seeing the city, often for the first time—exploring its streets and staring at its store windows. It is boys gawking, and girls blushing, at the fleshy photographs of stripteasers outside the Hennepin Avenue joints. It is seeing a movie at one of the rows of theaters with the flashing lights. It is looking … Read more
The Wabasha Street Bridge built in 1998 replaced an earlier structure that was built in 1889. The new bridge is actually two bridges, one for northbound and one for southbound traffic. The use of a concrete segmental box girder bridge provided a construction advantage because no falsework needed to be built beneath the bridge. Pedestrian … Read more