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Minneapolis Park Memory: North to South
Minneapolis truly is a “City of Parks” for everyone — north, south, east , and west. As a ten-year-old tomboy in north Minneapolis, the neighbor kids and I would hike three miles to Glenwood Park,...
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Glenwood Toboggan Slide: 1887
It’s an old, wrinkled photo clipped from an unidentified newspaper, but it’s also the oldest photo I’ve seen of a toboggan slide in Minneapolis. A privately run toboggan slide on "Glenwood" hill in...
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Glenwood Toboggan Slide II: 1887
Since posting a newspaper photo of a toboggan slide on “Glenwood Hill” in 1887, I found this photo in the Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources Database. This photo is purportedly of the same...
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Elusive Minneapolis Ski Jumps: Keegan’s Lake, Mount Pilgrim and Glenwood...
The Norwegians of Minneapolis had greater success getting their music recognized in a Minneapolis park than they did their sport. A statue of violinist and composer Ole Bull was erected in Loring Park...
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Another Colorful Name Lost
The official record of the Minneapolis park board, the published “proceedings,” often don’t tell the whole story. Example: the proceedings of the park board meeting of June 6, 1910 record that the...
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