Businesses

Don’t Be a Tin Can Slacker!

There were other things we’d rather forget, the freakish wind storms of 1923 and 1924, when so many trees were torn down and small houses disturbed, and the KU KLUX KLAN of Minneapolis meeting on … Read more

Capt. Billy and the Bank Building

The American Legion Auxiliary to Westphal Post #251 was organized with 31 charter members, August 6, 1920, with Mrs. F. R. Stinchfield serving as first president. Its purpose was to aid the Post in serving … Read more

The Ruff Bros. Grocery

Jerome F. Ruff grew up on his family’s farm on Fish Lake in Maple Grove. He graduated from De La Salle High School in Minneapolis and attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Along with … Read more

A Bright Future

On April 19th, 1893, Robbinsdale was organized as a village, consisting of parts of three sections of the original twenty-four of the township, one third of the territory of Crystal, with ten miles of improved … Read more

Mr. Robbins Comes to Town

This is the fourth in a series of posts featuring Mrs. Henry E. Hartig’s,  History of Robbinsdale. Prepared for the Robbinsdale Library Club, Hartig noted that while the material she used came from a variety … Read more

Then and Now on West Broadway

Morris W. Henney bought his drug store at 4139 West Broadway from Henry J. Barnett in about 1939. His son, William Henney, ran the drugstore from 1953 to 1963. It was then sold to Braun’s … Read more

My Dearest Girlie,

Andrew B. Robbins writing to his youngest daughter Esther on August 17th, 1906. As usual he has no excuse for the delay, but the Grand Army Parade was splendid! In other news, no decisive action … Read more

The End of an Era

1982 The month of January had record snowfalls of 17.1 and 18.5 inches. To. gether with the April 20 snowfall, we had 95 inches of snow compared with the yearly average of 45 inches. As … Read more