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Flour Power: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 8:44pm.
Minneapolis circa 1908. "St. Anthony's Falls and the milling district." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
What's with all the weathervanes?
Submitted by juliebeth on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 8:54pm.
Seems to be quite a few.
Crossing the river.
Submitted by Jimmy Longshanks on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 1:41pm.
The span in the foreground was the 10th Avenue bridge, connecting 10th Avenue South on the Minneapolis side with 6th Avenue Southeast on the Saint Anthony side. At center is Spirit Island, or Wanagi Wita in the Mdewakanton Dakota language. It was removed to make way for the upper St. Anthony lock and dam in the 1950s.
Way Before Covered Hoppers
Submitted by jdowling23 on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 10:53am.
Grain moved by boxcar. You can see the boards (or maybe heavy cardboard) placed across the open doors of some of them in order to hold it.
Memories
Submitted by Atomic Rocket on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 12:56am.
In the early 70's the stone arch bridge still had tracks across which I took many freight trains as a conductor for the BN Railroad.
And on the horizon
Submitted by jsmakbkr on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 11:26pm.
The biggest of them all was just about to come. In 1908, the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company's Elevator A - the world's largest brick grain elevator - would open, just behind the mansard-roofed Crown Roller Mill (on the right end of the row of mills). It would become known as the Ceresota building, based on the mural-like billboard on the south side of the building. Those mills - along with the Standard Mill and the boiler house - were restored for office and hotel uses in the mid-1980s with an influx of cash from Silicon Valley investor Tom Whitney.
+100
Submitted by timeandagainphoto on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 9:40pm.
Below is the same view from September of 2008 (from the roof of the University of Minnesota Southeast Steam Plant).
Stone Arch Bridge
Submitted by cowboyally on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 9:05pm.
Oh I love this. I run over that bridge on the right every day.
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