Robbinsdale Historical Society
Sharing Your Past To Build Our Future
1940 Census: 6,018 (a 36% increase since 1930) The decade of the “forties” will never be forgotten because of World War II. Local events included the opening of a hospital in Robbinsdale, registration of voters, … Read more
The morning of November 11th, 1940 brought with it unseasonably high temperatures. By early afternoon temperatures soared into the 60s. Less than 24 hours later, an intense low pressure system had tracked from the southern … Read more
World War I veteran, Erwin W. Peterson bought his first Red and White Grocery Store on Penn Avenue in Minneapolis in 1921. He opened another Red and White on West Broadway in Robbinsdale a couple … Read more