Parking lot in front of Alfred Parkers home on West Broadway. The son of a Methodist Clergyman, Alfred Parker was born in Maine in 1824. He served in the Mexican War and went to the California gold fields in the rush of 1849. In the early 1850s he came back east by rail and then up the Mississippi by steamboat to St. Paul. In 1854, Parker homesteaded a farm near what is now 42nd and Perry. In 1855 Parker married his neighbor's daughter, Elizabeth Malbon. Her father built the couple a fine house at 4109 Lakeland. A couple years later he built another house on an adjoining lot. The Parker house was used as a stopover by travelers and teamsters hauling on the Bottineau Road. Both houses, in the heart of the business district, were torn down in the 1970s.
Members of Westphal Post No. 251, American Legion Women's Auxiliary in front of the Robbinsdale Public Police and Fire Building at 4145 Hubbard Avenue.
Spanish American War Veteran, Jens Sorenson put on his old uniform to march with the American Legion in the Whiz Bang Days Parade. He is pictured here in front of the Robbinsdale Public Police and Fire Building at 4145 Hubbard Avenue.
Spanish American War Veteran, Jens Sorenson put on his old uniform to march with the American Legion in the Whiz Bang Days Parade. He is pictured here in front of the Robbinsdale Public Police and Fire Building at 4145 Hubbard Avenue.
Top Row: Jack Trump, Bill Henny, William Mueller, Charles Wallace, Walt, Sipe, Howard Hommes, Mike Plumedahl, Robert Clasen, Vince Hallett. Second Row: Merv Holt, Don Ackerman, Francis Gfoerer, Kenny Nesseth, Dick Genung, Bud Gallagher, Carl Matson, Matt Spurzem, Hess Linderholm. Third Row: Al Bossert, Arthur Master, James Robinson, Bill Linderholm, Joe Knaeble, Tom Shaw, Adolph Jullie, Francis Chervny.
Robbinsdale City Band marching in anchor formation in a Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade. Director Bob Mendenhall is wearing a white suit in the upper left.
Sticker on the back of the photo reads: "Robbinsdale Fire and Police Department. 41st and Hubbard Avenue, Built in 1949. Obsolete in 1993 when new building built."
Looking south on West Broadway Avenue from 42nd Avenue North. The Robin Theater and the Robbinsdale water tower on the right. There are to city buses in the foreground. The Fawcett Building is on the left.
Sons and Daughters of Robbinsdale's Earliest Residents. Row 1: Etta Roth Gates, Bertha Trump, Mrs. Bill Parker, Bill Parker, Mrs. George Johnson, Grace Goetze. Row 2: Mrs Horbie Morse, Ruth Trump, Frances Pollard, Maude Huston, Mrs. William Johnston, Emma Bratager, William Goetze, Jack Trump, George Christianson, Bill Johnston, Louis Bratager, Harriet Grenell Sessing (front), Jules Sessing (back), Lawrence Nasett, George Johnson,Hamlet Johnson
Charles O. Wallace, John Zenzen, Adrian Matson in front of the Robbinsdale City Hall. Wallace was Robbinsdale's first city clerk. He held office from 1938 until 1945. He served as Mayor from 1947 through 1954 and again from 1967 to 1972.
Robbinsdale Schools Superintendent Ewin J. Cooper in his office at Robbinsdale High School 4139 Regent. Born in 1897, Cooper grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He served as a pursuit pilot in World War I. His first teaching job was at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Cooper wwas hired asRobbinsdales's superintendent in 1930. He retired in 1965. Robbinsdale Cooper High School is named in his hoonor.
The Robbinsdale City Band assembled in the Robbinsdale High School Auditorium, Paul Larson is standing with a baton at his side in the middle of the stage.
The Robbinsdale City Band in the Robbinsdale High School Auditorium. Director, Paul Larson is wearing a white suit and standing in the center of the photo. Robert Swanson is in the first row, second from the left.
The Robbinsdale City Band in the Robbinsdale High School Auditorium. Director, Paul Larson is Standing on the far left. Robert Swanson is in the first row, first from the left.
The Robbinsdale City Band marching down West Broadway in the 1938 Goodwill Days Parade. The photo was taken from the roof of the Wilson Realty Co. Building.