A New City Hall
After Robbinsdale’s old City Hall on West Broadway was torn down to make room for a Red Owl grocery store parking lot in 1954, Municipal offices were moved to a temporary quarters in the Police … Read more
Robbinsdale Junior High
Due to the pressures of an increasing number of students a new Robbinsdale High School opened at Toledo Avenue North and 37th. Principal Milo Mielke moved to the building and the sprawling complex of buildings … Read more
Girling Gets There Cheaper than Train Fare
Thomas H. Girling was born in Nottingham, England in 1865. He came to America with his parents in 1872. Thirty years later he opened a small printing business and began publishing a weekly called Picturesque … Read more
MacDonald & Russ
The MacDonald and Russ Grocery on the southwest corner of 42nd and West Broadway. Pictured from left to right are Everie Russ, Ross Wiley, Allan MacDonald and Herbert Clasen. After Nathan Russ retired he turned … Read more
A Typical Home?
“Typical Hone- Home owning is Robbinsdale’s major “industry”. Many beautiful homes such as this one owned by Reuben Katz adorn residential avenues.” The photo at the top of the post is from a Sunday Minneapolis … Read more
Villas Avenue?
About 1925 the names of the streets were changed to eliminate duplication and to bring about a unified system between the villages of Crystal, Golden Valley, and Robbinsdale. Villas Avenue became Noble Avenue. Legend has … Read more
The Twin Lake Highlands Addition
” A new addition just being platted. Twenty acres of beautifully wooded high land bordering the lake shore. This addition extends from Forty-fourth Avenue North to Twin Lake and Shingle Creek. A few blocks … Read more
Robbinsdale Public School
In 1913 the old Parker School, built in 1890, was deemed too small for a growing student body numbering over 200 students. $14,000 in bonds were issued to pay for the construction of four additional … Read more
Ben Franklin
The Ben Franklin five and dime variety store chain was established in 1927. At its peak, there were 2,500 stores nationwide. Hollsten’s owned and operated the Robbinsdale on West Broadway for over a decade. Frank … Read more