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On This Day: February 20, 1925

Hennepin Ladies’ Toggery at 3011 1/2 Hennepin Avenue.

On This Day: February 16, 1897

From the Minneapolis Tribune: PARENTS HAD MOVED Augusta Norton, 12 years of age, arrived in the city yesterday from Wilson, Wis., expecting to join her parents, whose address was given to her as 3201 Colfax avenue south. The girl went to the number as directed, but found that her parents had moved a week ago. [...]

On This Day: February 13, 1925

Chapman’s adds a candy department.

On This Day: February 9, 1906

On This Day: February 9, 1906

From the Minneapolis Tribune: IN ARMS: HENNEPIN AVENUE RESIDENTS WILL PROCEED LEGALLY TO SECURE THEIR RIGHTS The residents living on Hennepin boulevard, as well as those owning adjoining property, are not only up in arms at last, but are well organized and financed for the purpose of making a fight against the park board for [...]

On This Day: January 25, 1905

From the Minneapolis Tribune: FENDER SAVES A LIFE Roland Wheeler, the seven-year-old son of A. M. Wheeler, 3432 Bryant avenue south, was seriously, if not fatally, injured by being struck by a street car Monday afternoon just as he was returning home from school. At the place in the street where the accident occurred, between [...]

On This Day: January 23, 1920

From the Minneapolis Tribune: “A total of $524,400 was the day’s mark in [City of Minneapolis] building permits, the registration including … a $3,000 boiler house to the Johnson Certified Milk company’s plant at 2824 Emerson avenue south, and a $7,500 addition to the Crown Milk company’s big barn at 2928 Emerson avenue south.”

On This Day: December 25, 1925

A new building proposed east of Lyn-Lake.

On This Day: December 16, 1900

From the Minneapolis Tribune: “R.B. Pelton secured the general contract to erect a residence at 2716 Bryant avenue south for J.L. Dickinson. It will be 26×34, two stories and attic, with plumbing, bath, gas, mantel, leaded glass, hardwood interior finish and furnace. Cost, $2,500.”

Historic Photo of the Week

Historic Photo of the Week

Lake Street & Girard Avenue in the 1970s

On This Day: December 4, 1925

The Carling Cafeteria opens at the Carling Hotel in Uptown.