June 30, 2023 Linden Hills History Study Group by JoEllen Haugo For more than 26 years the Linden Hills History Study Group (LHHSG) has offered local history programs in Southwest Minneapolis. The organization was initiated by history-loving neighbors. Some were volunteers [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2023, Vol. 82, No. 1 BY KATHLEEN KULLBERG WHAT DO WCCO RADIO and Eleanor Nesbitt Poehler have in common? Wait, you haven’t heard of Eleanor Nesbitt Poehler? Without her, WCCO may not have [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2023, Vol. 82, No. 1 by Charlie Maguire Returning home from a dinner on February 6, 1947, Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey asked armed police chauffeur Vern Bartholomew to pull to the curb in [...]
Jumping the tracks, paying the freight by Bill Beyer This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3 Several railroads raced west from Minneapolis after the Civil War, slicing through St. Louis Park and Hopkins. In 1867, [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3 Rainbow Chinese, 2739 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis. by Carissa Thomas YOU CAN EAT YOUR WAY around the globe when you visit Eat Street in Minneapolis. A hungry [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3 by Ames Sheldon Remarkable advances in heart surgery were forged at the Variety Club Heart Hospital at the University of Minnesota during the 1950s. This is the hospital [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 2 The Rollling Stones at their first Minnesota concert, Big Reggie's Danceland, Excelsior, June 12, 1964. Photo by Mike Waggoneer by William Burleson When the Rolling Stones came [...]
This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 2 AMONG many University of Minnesota scholarships is one named after Wen Ping Pan, a Chinese American athletic champion who came to the US in 1914 to follow his dreams [...]
July 28, 2022 The Glen Lake Sanatorium East Cottage, with fresh air tent. 1920.Courtesy of Hopkins Historical Society. What a marvel for scientists in the late 19th century to actually see what they theorized was making people ill. The [...]
June 30, 2022 by Sue Dorweiler If you set out to raise more than $1,000,000 for your community, how would you do it? Maybe you’d do what the folks in Hamel, Minnesota, did more than 40 years ago when they held [...]
