Minnesta Street (renamed 123rd Street West) Savage, Minnesota. Businesses included the Glendale Township Hall, Gopher Heating and Cooling, the Savage Barbershop, Ekstrom Television, George Allen Dodge and Savage Lumber.
Image shows an aerial view of city of New Prague facing northwest. On the upper left of the image is the New Prague Mill, the center of the photograph shows the mill pond, and on the lower right is Saint Wenceslaus church.
Exterior view of the Cuckoo Clock located at 12111 12th Avenue South in Burnsville, Minnesota which opened in 1970 became Inn and Out and most recently the Canton, which closed in 2022.
Dan Patch Bowling Lanes, Ottawa Avenue, Savage, Minnesota opened its doors in 1956 and closed in 2007. This is now the site of Guild Residential Treatment Services.
Originally constructed as the Savage State Bank, this brick structure located on Minnesota Street (later renamed 123rd Street West) in Savage, has served as the Glendale Township Hall and Savage Library.
The Vine Street Cafe, Utility and Gas Service, Rosecran's Electric, the Colonial Bakery, and then Singewald's roofing were at one time located in this former residence on Vine Street, (renamed Ottawa Avenue) Savage, Minnesota. The building was torn down in 1982 for an apartment complex.
The Dan Patch Bar and Lounge/Municipal Liquor Store was located at the corner of Vine and Minnesota Streets (now Ottawa Avenue and 123rd Street West) Savage, Minnesota. It was torn down in 1999 and is the site of the relocated historic Savage Depot.
The Dan Patch Bar and Lounge/Municipal Liquor Store was located at the corner of Vine and Minnesota Streets (now Ottawa Avenue and 123rd Street West) Savage, Minnesota. It was torn down in 1999 and is the site of the relocated historic Savage Depot.
Vine Street (renamed Ottawa Avenue) looking toward Highway 13, Savage Minnesota. Businesses shown include the former Kaufenberg Building, the Dan Patch Bar and Lounge/Municipal Liquor Store, the Evergreen restaurant and the Savage TV Clinic (in the former Riley Building).
The Brookside Tavern, a Restaurant and Bar was located at 21 Minnesota Street, Savage Minnesota. For a few years it was Lee's and then Earl and Dorothy's (McQuiston) and in 1980 it returned to the Brookside Tavern name. Now the Buffalo Tap, it is the same building and location 4990 123rd Street West, Savage Minnesota. Del Stelling worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering Savage, Burnsville, Eagan and other areas of Dakota County, Minnesota from 1959 - 1984.
The original St. James Lutheran Church (1944-1963) became the American Legion Club after the church relocated to Burnsville, Minnesota in 1963. It was located on what is now 124th Street, Savage Minnesota.
Aerial view of Duluth harbor, waterfront, canal park and Minnesota Point to about Sixteenth Street at the far right. At the far left on the waterfront are the Huron Portland Cement silos. This property would become LaFarge corporation property.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A aerial view of Forest and Union Street in Mora, Minnesota capturing the Feed Mill, Creamery, Coop gas Station, Post Office until 1996, Theater, Antiques Shop, Sundstrong Drugstore, Anthony's Hardware, and Stalkes Clothing Store.
A aerial photographic map of Mora Minnesota showing the potential growth area, pointing out several different streets, Highways, the Fair Grounds, and the Central Business Area.
A night view shows the Duluth Arena Auditorium and parking facilities. The Minnesota Power and Light substation is in the foreground. There is a lighted Christmas tree surrounded by a car display at the joint entrance to the complex. The Arena Auditorium opened to great fanfare in August 1966. The arena was home to UMD hockey and seats for 8,000, and the Duluth Symphony finally had a grand hall for its performances and sat 2,400. It was renamed the DECC or Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center on August 31, 1987. It was expanded and re-opened June 18, 1990. The Harbor Side Convention Center and Parking Ramp additions were opened January 31, 2001.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Looking southward along South Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter from a location near the intersection with Broadway. The signs of many businesses that have since disappeared can be seen, such as Stensby Cleaners, Big John's Restaurant, the State Theater, Gannon's Restaurant, and the Odell Pharmacy.
St. Germain Street was converted to a pedestrian mall. Workers putting finishing touches to downtown mall as shoppers and onlookers walk by. Woolworth's store can be seen in background.
This local business at 4702 Grand Avenue began as Diamond Calk Horse Shoe in 1907 by Otto Swanstrom the inventor of the "diamond calks" in 1900. The plant was sold in the 1980s. In 1994, the last workers vacated. The building was razed in 1996.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Duluth Herald and the Duluth News Tribune grew out of the early newspapers. This is the current home of the Duluth News Tribunes' staff and production at 422-424 West First Street in downtown Duluth. At the time of its construction and opening, both the evening Duluth Herald and the morning News Tribune were published at this site. They merged in 1984.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
First Burnsville State Bank rented space at 201 West Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville Minnesota Prior to opening in March, 1972, Before this, Burnsville never had a bank of its own..
View from the top of the Aerial Lift Bridge looking over Canal Park toward Duluth's hillside taking in a vista to Leif Erikson Park. Pedestrians could ride on the lift span of the Aerial Bridge for a short time in the late 1960s for fifty cents. There was an enclosure to stand within. In 1966, the City Council approved a resolution to permit club members to have free rides on the bridge during 1966 and 1967. To be a club member you had to contribute at least one dollar to the fund to floodlight the bridge. Contributors received a membership card. Between September 13 and 16 the fund gained three thousand dollars. The cost to floodlight was twenty-one thousand dollars. The floodlights were first lit on November 17, 1966. Minnesota's U.S. Representative John A. Blatnik pulled the switch to light the bridge. Chief bridge operator Alfred L. Hass said in 1960 that the longest the bridge remained open (span up) was an hour and 27 minutes one night in 1937 when a fog on the lake lifted and 13 ships entered and departed in quick succession. The greatest number of ships to pass under the span in one day was 80, requiring 36 lifts, on April 19, 1937. The building in the shadow of the bridge is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building constructed in 1906. The new bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth on permit authorized by Congress. The Ship Canal and grounds are under the authority of the Lake Superior Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Aerial view of U. S. Steel's steel plant in the Duluth neighborhood called Morgan Park. Construction of the plant was announced in 1907. It opened in 1915, and closed in phases in the early 1970s.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Julius Howland Barnes founded Klearflax Linen Looms, Incorporated, and was president of the board. This was the manufacturing plant at 63 Avenue West and Grand. Barnes sought a way to utilize flax straw, then largely burned in Minnesota fields were it was produced. Initially he planned to make toweling, but that proved unworkable. Flax made a durable and artistic rug. In 1933, only 60 people were employed in the mill. They diversified, and 200 were employed with a payroll of $30,000 a month. The plant used no coal, but was steam heated using waste products from raw materials. Looms were invented to accommodate the flax material after it had been cleaned, steamed, dried, combed and carded, and spun into yarn. The company also utilized wool and cotton. The company gained national prominence when it began to advertise in magazines like Vogue, Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. One rug was in the main entry of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel and showed little wear after an estimated 10 million people had walked across it. Another was made in 1939, weighing a half-ton, cost $300,000, was 15x30 feet, of special design, for the Finnish capital at Helsinki. Barnes sold the company to Romos enterprises of Ohio in April 1953.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Diamondhead Mall, Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville, Minnesota opened in 1974 with 28 stores. After the mall closed in 1998 School District 191 purchased the building.
Built in 1963 as Valley National, Eagan Minnesota's first bank, it was later renamed Mid-America Bank located next to the Cedarvale Shopping Center on Highway 13 and Silver Belle Road.
Built in 1963 as Valley National, Eagan Minnesota's first bank, it was later renamed Mid-America Bank located next to the Cedarvale Shopping Center on Highway 13 and Silver Belle Road.
Built in 1963 as Valley National, Eagan Minnesota's first bank, it was later renamed Mid-America Bank located next to the Cedarvale Shopping Center on Highway 13 and Silver Belle Road.
This view shows Canal Park in the right foreground and downtown Duluth behind. The railroad tracks are parallel to Superior Street and will be displaced by the I35 freeway. The flat, undeveloped areas west or to the left of the Arena-Auditorium will later become the site for Playfront Park, Bayfront Festival Park, and the Great Lakes Aquarium. In this photo, Canal Park's recent addition is the 1973 Marine Museum adjacent to the 1906 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building. Both are near the base of the North tower of the aerial lift bridge. In the middle of this view is the Arena Auditorium (opened in 1966) that will later to added to and renamed the DECC in 1987. To its right is the rectangular Pioneer Hall. Ground was broken on April 7, 1975, for the Pioneer Hall and Duluth Curling Club. It is a world-class curling facility. The Silver Broom World Curling Tournament in March 1976, drew 41,000 fans from ten countries to the new ice sheets. Grand opening celebrations were held August 30 to September 12, 1976. The Northwest Passage, a skywalk from downtown to the Arena-Auditorium through the Pioneer Hall, will be completed in 1976.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Minnesota Street (renamed 123rd Street West) Downtown Savage, Minnesota during a Dan Patch Days parade. Visible businesses include Gopher Heating, the Savage Barbershop, Southside Dodge (previously Allen's Dodge) and the Dan Patch Lounge/Savage Municipal Liquor Store.
T- Butcherblock, was one of the first chain restaurants to open in Burnsville with a seating capacity of 150 and a lounge. It was located at 12450 Nicollet Avenue, Burnsville Minnesota.
Pioneer Hall will take form on this construction site adjacent to Minnesota Slip. Ground was broken on April 7, 1975, for the Pioneer Hall and Duluth Curling Club. The Silver Broom World Curling Tournament in March 1976, drew 41,000 fans from ten countries to the new ice sheets. Grand opening celebrations were held August 30 to September 12, 1976. The Northwest Passage, a skywalk from downtown to the Arena Auditorium, was completed in 1976. Eight years after the Arena Auditorium was opened in 1966, it was pumping $6 million into Duluth's economy. The annual payroll averaged $300,000 and more than 750 people were employed on either a part or full-time basis. The Pioneer Hall expansion was the first of many.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Aerial view looking north. North south road in photograph is Columbus Avenue. In the center of photo is Saint Wenceslaus School and Saint Wenceslaus Church. On the lower right side is the eighth hole of the New Prague Golf Course. Written on the back of photograph is 'Chuck from Sharkey's plane.'
An aerial view showing a two-toned car at the bottom left on Superior street and the Lyric Theater above the car. The Lyric block was razed in 1976 to make way for the Holiday Center.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
One of the buildings of the Standard Lumber Company in St. Peter is shown during the process of demolition. The truck shown was facing south along Front Street. The building on the far right is on the north side of Park Row.
The brick building at the right was the office of the Standard Lumber Company in St. Peter at 100 Park Row. Front Street is at the far left. This photograph was taken during the demolition of the lumber storage building that had been on the southwest corner of the intersection.
The Standard Lumber Company in St. Peter was located at 100 Park Row. Demolition of this building was in progress at the time this photograph was taken. The large doors on the north side of the building were along Park Row, near its intersection with Front Street.
The brick building at the right was the office of the Standard Lumber Company in St. Peter at 100 Park Row. Front Street is at the far left. This photograph was taken following the demolition of the lumber storage building that had been on the southwest corner of the intersection.
Aerial view of Main Street facing northeast. Photograph taken from Schumachers. Businesses identified include Hadac Market in the red building and City Club Bar.
Lucky Twin Drive-in theatre, Highway 13 Burnsville, Minnesota. The popular two screen outdoor theatre operated from 1957-1980. Next to the theatre is a new water treatment plant being constructed. The theatre is now the site of the Minnesota Valley Transit Station.
Workers finishing connecting the upper and lower portions of a power line tower for the Cooperative Power Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota/United Power Association, Elk River, Minnesota high voltage power line through Grant County, Minnesota.
Completed power line tower with power lines strung for the Cooperative Power Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota/United Power Association, Elk River, Minnesota high voltage power line through Grant County, Minnesota.
A drum puller and reels of cable being strung for the Cooperative Power Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota/United Power Association, Elk River, Minnesota high voltage power line construction through Grant County, Minnesota.
A drum puller and reels of cable being strung for the Cooperative Power Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota/United Power Association, Elk River, Minnesota high voltage power line construction through Grant County, Minnesota.