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NEW MINNEAPOLIS Auditorium and Convention Hall is one of the nation’s best facilities for conventions, trade shows, and sporting events. The $16 million, multi-purpose complex includes three giant exhibit areas with more than 160,000 square feet of space. The Convention Hall will seat 12,000; the Auditorium 9,000; the Exhibition Hall 2,500.
NEW AUDITORIUM The Minneapolis Auditorium built at a cost of THREE MILLION DOLL HAIRS, seats 10,500 persons and is capable of housing National Conventions, Indoor Circuses, Sports events, Musical and Religious and Political assemblages of all kinds are held here.
Hennepin Show House Largest West of New York Seats 2,928 Persons The largest theater west of New York city, and that means the largest in the United States outside of Manhattan Isle, will be opened to Minneapolis playgoers tomorrow at 12:30. It is the New Hennepin Theater at Ninth street and Hennepin avenue, where the … Read more
In a nation noted for the number and the size of its auditoriums, Minneapolis today boasts the second largest completed auditorium in the United States. Minneapolis’ new civic center has a seating capacity of 10,545. The Cleveland auditorium, the largest completed structure of its kind in point of seating capacity, seats 11,200. A new auditorium … Read more
Few institutions have accomplished greater results for individual citizens as well as the city and state as a whole, than the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis—The Home Company. Backed by men whose names are written large in the history of Minneapolis, the Northwestern National has achieved a national reputation as one of the … Read more
Grand Ball at Night Drill Teams Compete During the Day Minneapolis, Minnesota June 23, 1931: Beneath red canopies such as begot London’s thoroughfares as the Crusaders departed, 10,000 plumed Knights of Templar paraded before their leaders today as part of the triennial conclave of the order. Each of the 1700 commanderies representing 47 states took … Read more
Edith Day was Born in Minneapolis on April 10, 1896. She grew up in her parnets home at 2219 Lyndale Avenue South. Her father, Oscar Day was a newspaperman and dramatic critic for the Minneapolis Tribune. In 1912 she landed a role in a play called On a Roof Garden performed Wednesdays and Thursdays at … Read more
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In 1935 ,the father of Roller Derby, Leo Saltzer held his first race in Chicago at the Coliseum. Saltzer’s roller skating marathons spread quickly from Chicago. Road crews were hired to dismantle and move tracks. Roller Derbies set shop in auditoriums and traveled like circuses. The marathons evolved into a race between two teams with … Read more