From Larry Millett, author of the award-winning Lost Twin Cities, comes this fascinating new book that explores the history of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their streets.
1993 American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award
Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty.
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The St. Paul Winter Carnival is the oldest winter celebration in North America.Using archive photos pairing vintage photos from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with their modern-day viewpoint, local author Bill Lindeke shows how the ...
Take a tour of the lost mansions of the Twin Cities
A lively illustrated history that reveals how the movie business has fascinated, scandalized, and socialized the Twin Cities and its people.
Serving as neighborhood landmarks, sites of political engagement, welcoming centers for immigrants, hotbeds of criminal activity, targets of ire from church and state alike, and, of course, a place to get a drink, the story of the taverns ...
In 1977, conservative activist and citrus industry publicist Anita Bryant brought her “Save Our Children” campaign to St. Paul after that city passed a gay and lesbian civil rights ordinance. Although the Bryant uproar scared the public ...
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By the 1950s, the mix was being marketed by the Quaker Oats Company, and the figure of Aunt Jemima was embodied by an accomplished blues singer and actress from Chicago named Edith Wilson. Complete with her trademark bandana, ...