“Soon after the creation of Robbinsdale the Car Shops and the Hubbard Manufacturing Company were destroyed by fire and Robbinsdale again became purely residential.”
“Some boisterous characters who frequently drive through Robbinsdale on Sunday on the gallop, singing questionable songs, should be arrested, brought before a judge and fined. With two or three lessons, the village might be able to recognize Sunday from another day.”
This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring Dorthy Hartig’s History of Robbinsdale. This informal account was written for the Robbinsdale Library Club in 1948. A copy was placed Lee’s School’s cornerstone time capsule the following year. The image at the top of the posts features a view looking south on Crystal Lake Avenue (West Broadway) in the 1890’s and the headline font of the Robbinsdaele Tell It newspaper.