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…Merle’s son Paul: “My brother and I remember my mom driving us around to community colleges and putting fliers under car windshield wipers as advertising for the up coming weekend….
Continue reading →…Merle’s son Paul: “My brother and I remember my mom driving us around to community colleges and putting fliers under car windshield wipers as advertising for the up coming weekend….
Continue reading →…manager Frank Kuffel was fined $100 for violating the pinball ordinance by awarding free beer and cigars for chips earned on the machines instead of free plays. Kuffel was manager…
Continue reading →707 Olson Memorial Highway. Opened August 1943 by William “Bill” Freeman – “For an evening of fun.” This site had previously been a hardware store, beauty salon, and Bill’s Smoke…
Continue reading →…date of the building, and Alan Freed says there was another one? Stay tuned. Identical ads were in the Minneapolis papers in December and June 1972 Courtesy Alan Freed…
Continue reading →…Uptown – Prince Land of the Free – Curtiss A Best LP Up From the Alley – Lamont Cranston Flamin’ Oh’s – Flamin’ Oh’s Hometown Album – KDWB & Various…
Continue reading →…that there was no Alan Freed in Minneapolis. Well, there is an Alan Freed in Minneapolis, but he’s not the guy! This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that…
Continue reading →…compilation called “Free Flight.” Arne started his singing career when he was 17, and made his mark singing over 1,500 commercials and jingles. He owns every Bing Crosby record ever…
Continue reading →Pete Seeger appeared at Northrop Auditorium on October 1, 1972. Here is a touching story from Alan Freed: During his visit he stayed at a neighbor’s house, a friend of…
Continue reading →…was really a cold day. By evening it was nearly freezing Some folks in the bleachers next to us collected trash and built a bonfire (not good). Bromberg got halfway…
Continue reading →…St. Paul, in the Highland Shopping Center. The Highland Shopping Center seemed to have a curse. It was completed in September 1939 on land purchased from the Ford Motor Company….
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