Topic: Sports and Recreation - Minnesota Digital Library Search Results

Creator:: Minnesota Department of Transportation
Date Created:: 1981
Description:: The front side of "Minnesota Bikeways: Map 27 - West Central Minnesota" contains: a list of county, municipal, federal, and state parks and state rest areas; a "potpourri" article; the map index; and inset maps of Barrett, Wheaton, Benson, Ortonville, Morris, Brown's Valley, and Starbuck. The back side contains the larger bikeways map and a legend of signs and symbols. MnDOT's bikeway maps serve as a reference guide illustrating major historical and cultural points of interest in Minnesota, public park lands and facilities, equipment, and safety information. They also depict road analyses for bicycle travel, location of paved road shoulders and off-road bikeways, and controlled access roads where bicycles are prohibited. There are 54 maps in the Statewide Series (1979-1983), 4 maps in the Statewide Quadrant Series (1986-1993), and 2 maps in the Metro Series (1989). Legislatively mandated, these maps were prepared as convenient guides to help bicyclists select their routes. Each map is unique and signifies a historical reference to the state of bicycle facilities at the time of publication.
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library
Type:: Cartographic
Format:: Transportation maps

Creator:: Simons, Ben, 1912-1995
Date Created:: 1988
Description:: Bernard "Ben" Simons (1912-1995) discusses the fishing barge at Lake City, Minnesota. He also discusses being the Lake City harbormaster, replacing the fishing barge, excursion boats, recent development of Lake City, the ice skating rink, Vietnamese fishers, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's visit to Lake City.
Contributing Institution:: Lake City Historical Society
Type:: Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:: Oral histories

Creator:: Howatt, Marvin, 1941-
Date Created:: 1987
Description:: Marvin Howatt (1941-), of the Cliff and Coulee Climbers Club, presents the history of snowmobiling in Lake City and Wabasha County, Minnesota. Marvin also discusses snowmobile registration, grant-in-aid funding, trail building, landowner permits, landowner liability, trail signage, trail maintenance, and trail maps.
Contributing Institution:: Lake City Historical Society
Type:: Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:: Oral histories

Creator:: Baesler, Blaine, 1920-2015
Date Created:: 2005-07-14
Description:: Blaine Baesler (1920-2015), a three-sport player in high school, including making All Conference as a football player, discusses growing up and playing football, basketball, and baseball in Lake City, Minnesota, and ice boating on Lake Pepin. He also discusses how his father, a harness maker, helped Ralph Samuelson, the inventor of waterskiing, experiment with making straps for water skis.
Contributing Institution:: Lake City Historical Society
Type:: Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:: Oral histories

Creator:: Stubstad, Jim, 1922-2011
Date Created:: 2005-11-04
Description:: Jim Stubstad (1922-2011) describes the development of Central Point in Lake City, and his life on Lake Pepin. He discusses his career in the US Navy and in rocket science, and boating, ice boating, boat building, sailing, and climbing Maiden Rock at Lake Pepin. He mentions the Sea Wing Disaster, water pollution, Zump Adolph's popcorn stand, the Old Goats Club, and renovation of the Lake City State Bank clock.
Contributing Institution:: Lake City Historical Society
Type:: Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:: Oral histories

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