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Early Twentieth Century Art in St. Paul as Seen Through the Career of Alice Hügy
Diane Trout-Oertel“The Matriarch of the Art Colony” By Diane Trout-Oertel To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Portrait of Alice Hügy by Clara Mairs, 1922. Hügy had brown hair, brown eyes and wore wire-rim glasses. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society. In…
A History of Drive-in Movie Theaters in Ramsey County
Pete BoulayThe Rose sat at the corner of Snelling Avenue and County Road C in Roseville from 1948 to 1979, and was Ramsey County’s first drive-in movie theater. Photo by Robert Murphy. “First Show at Dusk” By Pete Boulay To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images,…
Three Extraordinary Years in St. Paul Millinery: 1908, 1909, 1911
Janice R. QuickA 1908 newspaper ad for Philipsborn’s featured line drawings of lovely urbane ladies wearing elaborately decorated hats and “dainty silk dresses” priced from $16.50 to $25, the equivalent of $566 to $857 in today’s economy. In the St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 17, 1908. Feather Frenzy By Janice R. Quick…
Ramsey County History Winter 2025
Andrea Swensson, Youa Vang, Meredith Cummings, Rebecca E. BenderRamsey County History Winter 2025 Volume 60, No. 1: Winter 2025 Andrea Swensson, Youa Vang, Meredith Cummings, Rebecca E. Bender Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Winter 2025 Articles in this issue: The Women Who Have Shaped the Ramsey County Historical Society Author: Andrea Swensson,…
St. Paul’s Forgotten Radio Pioneer Maurice G. Goldberg
Rebecca E. Bender“St. Paul Radioman” M.G. Goldberg was photographed working at his Beacon Radio Service Shop, 142 East Fourth Street, St. Paul. In Radio and Television Retailing, December 1944. Catching Waves: St. Paul’s Forgotten Radio Pioneer Maurice G. Goldberg By Rebecca E. Bender To see this complete magazine article with endnotes…
Ramsey County History Summer 2024
Haley Prochnow, Cherelle Swain, Christine Podas-LarsonVolume 59, Number 3: Summer 2024 Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Summer 2024 Articles in this issue: Rondo Recreation in the St. Croix River Valley, 1909-1977 Author: Haley Prochnow For some Minnesotans with a little extra disposable income, “summertime” can translate to “cabin time.”…
Rondo Recreation in the St. Croix River Valley, 1909-1977
Haley ProchnowThe Silverbrook Estate/St. Croix Valley Country Club. Courtesy of Interstate State Park. By Haley Prochnow To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. The thermostat is set at 55°F during the winter in the Baker Land and Title Company…
March of the Governors: Jesse Ventura
Paul Nelson, Matt Wright, and Ken PetersonTo call our thirty-eighth governor, Jesse Ventura, unique is to engage in understatement. He was Minnesota’s first third-party governor since Elmer Benson in 1936. Though he ran on the Reform Party ticket, that party elected no one else, so he had no allies in the legislature. His plurality, 37% of…
Twin Cities Snapshots: History Through the Lens of the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Reviewed by Steve TrimbleTwin Cities Snapshots: History Through the Lens of the St. Paul Pioneer Press St. Paul Pioneer Press, with Nick Woltman and Molly Ballis Vancouver, WA: Pediment Publishing, 2023 160 pages; hardcover, 250 b&w and color illustrations, $39.95 In April 2024, St. Paul’s Pioneer Press marked its…