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69 unusual facts about Minneapolis


Allen Tate

Then, while teaching at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, he met Helen Heinz, a nun enrolled in one of his courses and began an affair with her.

Arthur H. Parmelee

He served internship at Kansas City General Hospital and then became an assistant to Dr. John Cross in Minneapolis.

Béla Tomka

He earned a master’s degree in History and History of Eastern Europe at the University of Szeged, followed by postgraduate studies in economic and social history at the Corvinus University Budapest, in the United States (Minneapolis) and in Germany (Münster).

Belle Plaine, Minnesota

The U.S. Highway 169 corridor travels from the city of Virginia, Minnesota, along the western edge of Mille Lacs Lake, through the western suburbs of Minneapolis and continues south through Belle Plaine, Mankato, and then into Iowa.

Bemis Company

Bag Co. opened its second plant in 1880 in Minneapolis, followed by a third in Omaha, Nebraska in 1888.

Betty Lou Young

Young was born in Minneapolis to Chester Haller, the owner of a lumber warehouse, and his wife Amy, who was a teacher.

Burnt Lips

Although Kottke did not release an album in 1977, he produced and played on The Wylie Butler by Cal Hand (Takoma TAK C-1056), a Minneapolis pedal steel and dobro player who had played on numerous Capitol releases for Leo.

Caring Is Creepy

The first documented live performance was on November 14, 2003 at First Avenue in Minneapolis.

Carl Tellefsen

The association was formally organized during a meeting attended by officers from the Ishpeming, Minneapolis, Red Wing, Minnesota, Stillwater, Minnesota and Eau Claire, Wisconsin ski clubs.

Central Corridor

METRO Green Line, a light rail line under construction between Minneapolis and St. Paul that was known as the Central Corridor during the planning and early construction phase

Charles H. DuPont

Nevertheless, he traveled to the Midwest to recruit immigrant labor to Florida, and became seriously ill in Minneapolis.

Colonial Warehouse

This quintessential building, rich in history, is part of Minneapolis' Historic Warehouse District.

Constance DeJong

In 2006 she wrote the text for SuperVision, a collaboration with The Builder's Association which premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.

David Ede

He started his teaching career as an instructor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and McGill University in Montreal before moving to the Western Michigan University Department of Comparative Religion where he taught Islamic Studies from 1970 to 2008 and served as departement head at the time of his death in 2008.

Dorthea Dahl

Dahl wrote several books and a number of short stories published in the Norwegian-American press, most notably in the The Friend, published in Minneapolis by Nils Nilsen Ronning.

Edward Leo Krumpelmann

He died shortly after his admission to Hennepin General Hospital (now Hennepin County Medical Center) in Minneapolis on June 23.

Electric Fetus

Operations began in 1968 when Korsh rented a storefront in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, then the Haight-Ashbury of Minneapolis.

Emma Snowsill

She was also the winner of the 2005 and 2006 Lifetime Fitness Triathlons in Minneapolis, and won the Noosa International Triathlon winner three times.

Folkjokeopus

The album title was borrowed to provide the name of a Minneapolis record store, Oar Folkjokeopus.

Frederick Howard Taylor

This work necessitated about 4000 miles of travel, as far north as Montreal and Minneapolis, and as far south as Baltimore and Nashville.

Frederick William Cappelen

Frederick William Cappelen (October 21, 1857 – October 16, 1921) was a Norwegian-born architect and civil engineer who held the office of Minneapolis City Engineer.

Frogtown

Shortly thereafter the Jackson Street Railroad Shops were built just northeast of Frogtown.

Gamaliel Foundation

To date, the major focus of Gamaliel has been such metropolitan areas as Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Northwest Indiana, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Kansas City, Missouri.

Globe Building

The Globe Building was an 8 floor building in Minneapolis.

Green Party of Minnesota

Ward 2 is considered one of the most diverse areas of Minneapolis, representing the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus and the Cedar-Riverside and Seward neighborhoods.

Harrington Mansion and Events Center

The Harrington Mansion and Events Center is a historic property located at 2540 Park Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Harry Wild Jones

Jones died in Minneapolis, on September 25, 1935, at Elmwood, his home in Washburn Park (a neighborhood often referred to as Tangletown).

Hobgoblin Music

There are also two Hobgoblin Music Franchises in the United States: Hobgoblin Music - Stoney End Harps in Red Wing, Minnesota and Hobgoblin Music in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota, operated by Gary Stone of Stoney End Harps.

International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet

International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet (IDC) is a center for diabetes care, research and education located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Ireton, Iowa

There is an old military road/path that traveled near the town that served to move troops and equipment down from Minneapolis to Sioux City to the Missouri River and the western most portions of the Civil War.

IS4C

IS4C or Integrated Systems for Co-ops is a free web-based point of sale software for retail stores initially developed by Tak Tang for the Wedge Community Co-op in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

John J. Gorman

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gorman attended the common schools and the Bryant and Stratton Business College at Chicago, Illinois.

KBJR-DT2

It was launched by KBJR in 2002 to fill the void when Minneapolis/St. Paul UPN affiliate KMSP-TV was being dropped by Charter Cable due to its affiliation switch to Fox.

Legends Rock

The television program was produced by Megabien Entertainment Corp., an independent production company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lucian Sprague

In 1935, Sprague was appointed co-receiver of the bankrupt Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (M&StL), a mid-sized railroad that extended south and west from Minneapolis.

Margaret Bright Lucas

Consequently, Lucas crossed the Atlantic again in 1886 to attend the WCTU convention in Minneapolis, at which she was warmly received.

Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence

Fed up with her dead-end job with a Minneapolis car rental agency, Martha quits, cashes her final paycheck, and uses the money to purchase an airline ticket to the least expensive international destination she can find - London.

Mechanical floor

In the IDS Tower in Minneapolis, the lowest mechanical floor serves as a visual separation from the street- and skyway-level Crystal Court shopping center and the office tower above; the upper mechanical floor (above the 50th and 51st floors, the uppermost occupied floors) serves as a "crown" to the building.

Metropolitan Music Co.

Metropolitan Music Co., a Minneapolis-based music publishing company and string instrument retailer founded the late 1800s

Minneapolis Public Library

While the building was under construction, most services were provided at the interim Central Library Marquette location, located on two floors in Marquette Plaza (formerly the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis).

Minnesota State Auditor election, 2010

Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board member Annie Young ran as the Green Party of Minnesota candidate.

Museum of Lake Minnetonka

Although the parts and materials for the express boats were initially prefabricated at Moore Boatworks in Wayzata, they were later sent to the TCRT streetcar workshop in south Minneapolis to be assembled.

Music to Raise the Dead

The cassette, featuring the kind of hard rock for which Resurrection Band would eventually become known, was recorded not long after the Jesus People USA community had moved from Minneapolis to Chicago, but before they found a permanent home in Uptown.

NAPLPS

Among the firms providing technology to TMS and the Associated Press for the AP News Plus channel was Minneapolis-based Electronic Publishers Inc. (1985–1988).

Nevada, Iowa

The C&NW purchased the Rock Island "Spine Line" which offered better and more direct connections for Minneapolis and Kansas City.

Newark Light Rail

One of the Shaker Heights cars has been restored by the Minnesota Transportation Museum, which operates it on a short stretch of track in western Minneapolis.

Nicolai A. Grevstad

Grevstad subsequently returned to the Minnesota and became an editorial writer for a number of English language newspapers in Minneapolis.

Northwestern National Life Building

The Northwestern National Life Building, later known as the ReliaStar Building and now known as ING 20 Washington, is an office building located in the Gateway District of Minneapolis.

Piper Maru

Frank Spotnitz began working on the episode immediately after writing the earlier third season episode "731", fleshing out the rest of the concept while on a flight out of Minneapolis.

Pirates' House

Lee H. Adams is the founder of The Mystery Café located in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis.

Rio Nido

Rio Nido was a jazz vocal trio that began as part of the Minneapolis West Bank music scene in the early 1970s.

Robert Menzies Mitchell

He also served as quarantine inspector along the Soo Line from 1901 to 1902.

Rollerblade

The company was started by Scott Olson (b. 1960) and Brennan Olson (b. 1964) in Minneapolis as Ole's Innovative Sports; when they sold the company, it became Rollerblade, Inc.

Simone Ahuja

Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota (with teams in Mumbai, India), Blood Orange Media works with integrated branding and international media, incorporating a variety of forms, including corporate films and television series.

Skelly Oil

Throughout much of its history, Skelly was a popular gasoline marketer throughout the Midwestern United States and was a market leader in several cities throughout its marketing area including Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis/Saint Paul and other cities.

St. Croix Wetland Management District

The St. Croix Wetland Management District is adjacent to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area of two million people.

Terror in the Sky

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree.

Vahram Sargsyan

His composition Luis Zvart was performed at the 6th World Symposium on Choral Music (Minneapolis, Minnesota 2002).

Varenyky

In January 2010, a pierogi statue was proposed to be erected in Minneapolis, MN.

Vedanta Society of New York

After the conclusion of the Parliament, he travelled to many American cities including Minneapolis, Memphis, Detroit and New York.

Walter O'Meara

Walter O’Meara (1897 - 1989) was an American author born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

WCKX

Officially, it is the first Radio One-owned station (along with Dallas/Fort Worth's KBFB, Philadelphia's WPHI-FM, which has changed to urban contemporary in 2011 & Indianapolis' WHHH) to be a rhythmic since the sale of former sister station WDHT in Dayton, OH and KTWN-FM in Minneapolis.

Wes Chandler

Minneapolis avant garde jazz trio Happy Apple has a song from their album Please Refrain from Fronting titled "Take Wes Chandler For Instance." Ralph Macchio's character in the movie The Karate Kid wore a San Diego Chargers jersey with Chandler's number, 89, during several scenes of the movie.

Wilbur B. Foshay

As he worked on his third and largest utility empire, Foshay built the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which opened in August 1929.

William J. Colvill

In 1905, Colvill traveled to the Soldiers Home in Minneapolis to attend a reunion of the veterans of the First Minnesota.

William Spell

William Spell is an American entrepreneur based in Minneapolis.

Winter City

The Livable Winter Cities Association was formed in 1982 by a group of people from across North America and once had chapters in Minneapolis, Ottawa and Anchorage.

Yossele Rosenblatt

During the succeeding months, he traveled throughout the United States, leading services in cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle, Indianapolis, Columbus, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. In Washington, D.C., he met with then-President Calvin Coolidge.

Zandy's Bride

He sends away for a mail-order bride, a Swedish woman who lives near Minneapolis.


1969 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

Nebraska QB Jerry Tagge broke a record while taking apart Minnesota in Minneapolis.

ANPO: Art X War

Since its debut at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, ANPO: Art X War has screened at a number of festivals worldwide including the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 2010 DOC NYC Film Festival, the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Asian American Film Festival and MoMA's Documentary Fortnight 2011.

Betsy-Tacy

Deep Valley is the setting for all the books, except for Betsy and the Great World, in which the title character travels across the Atlantic Ocean and to various countries in Europe, and Betsy's Wedding, which takes place in New York and Minneapolis.

Brian Denman

Brian John Denman (born February 12, 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1982 season.

Cameron Gordon

Cam Gordon, Green Party councillor for Minneapolis, Minnesota

David Treuer

It was named for a fleet of trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (and by allusion the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) The novel features a Native American family who migrate to Minneapolis in the mid-twentieth century under the federally sponsored urban relocation program.

Don Zierden

Zierden, a Minneapolis native, became the Minnesota Lynx's fifth head coach on December 13, 2006, replacing Carolyn Jenkins, who remained on the staff as an assistant.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Ellen Geer

Already, in 1963, she had joined the Minnesota Theatre Company for the opening seasons of the original Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, where, among other roles, she played the lead in Guthrie's production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.

Flipp

Because of Rattling Bones’ limited recording success (the soundtrack of “Surf Ninjas;” New Line Cinema) and subsequent disenchantment with the hard-rock scene, Arens and Eidem returned to Minneapolis/St Paul and created what would become Flipp.

Floyd B. Olson

Olson last made a public appearance on June 29, 1936, giving a stump speech in Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.

French Meadow Bakery

French Meadow Bakery and Cafe also features airport concession stands at Salt Lake City International Airport, JFK International, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, airport in Atlanta, Logan International and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airports which offers such products as peanut butter cookies, carrot cake, hemp bagels and a variety of freshly baked breads.

Getting It: The Psychology of est

Fenwick went on to work as director of the Behavioral Medicine Clinic at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, before retiring in 1993 to set up Psybar, an online service to provide psychological experts for court cases.

Harry Hayward

Harry T. Hayward (died 1895), American criminal from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hmong language

In 2012 McDonald's introduced its first Hmong language advertising in the United States at a restaurant in Minneapolis.

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

The firm had previously designed the $7.5-million, 2,700-seat Minneapolis Orchestra Hall and the $13-million Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Irene Osgood Andrews

She began her career as agent for the Associated Charities at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, in 1906 was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, and factory inspector in Wisconsin.

James Sewell Ballet

She was also named a City Pages "Artist of the Year" in 2009 for her work in the Minneapolis dance community.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition Arts, a youth oriented visual art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Kirby the Kestrel

Kirby the Kestrel is an American Kestrel (sometimes called a falcon or sparrow hawk) that frequents Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

KSTC

KSTC-TV, a television station (channel 45) licensed to Minneapolis-St.

KTIS

KTIS-FM, a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

LA ink

Some key examples of their work are the SEGD 2007 Honor Award / AIA MN Award winning "Wall of Discovery" and the Northwest Airlines hangar mural at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.

Lung Leg

Nick Zedd wrote in his autobiography, Totem of the Depraved, that she relocated to Minneapolis, then moved back to New York City after a short romance with German musician Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Matt Frei

In October 2012, Frei headed Channel 4's coverage of the US Presidential election, including making a documentary "The American Road Trip: Obama's story" in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.

Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center

Area 2 is a terminal arrival/departure area located to the north of Minneapolis and is concerned primarily with commercial aviation into and out of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport (MSP).

Minnesota State Highway 47

Highway 47 was originally an extension of State Highway 56; which ran from southern Minnesota to Hampton; and then was concurrent with U.S. Highway 52 into downtown Saint Paul; then along University Avenue in both Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Norris Division

As part of his shtick, ESPN's Chris Berman often refers to the National Football League's NFC North division (previously the NFC Central division) as the Norris Division or "NFC Norris" since the two divisions included teams from three of the same cities: Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis–St. Paul.

Organized crime in Minneapolis

Organized crime in Minneapolis first attracted national attention in 1903, when thug and mayor Doc Ames (1842-1911) was exposed by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities.

Sherry Robertson

He moved the club to Minneapolis-St. Paul after the 1960 season, then led the Minnesota Twins until he sold the club in 1984.

Strike Under

Steve Bjorklund briefly formed another Chicago punk band, Terminal Beach, then ultimately relocated to Minneapolis to pursue playing and recording with various punk and industrial music bands, including Breaking Circus.

Ta Mara and the Seen

Lead singer Margaret Cox (a.k.a. Margie Cox), given the stage name Ta Mara by producer Johnson, was born in Kenitra, Morocco and lived there until age seven, when she and her family moved to Minneapolis.

The Gateway District

The Gateway District are a pop punk band from Minneapolis that feature members of several other bands, including The Soviettes, Banner Pilot, The Salteens, Dear Landlord, Rivethead and Off with Their Heads.

Uh Oh… No Breaks!

Washington, D.C.'s Slickee Boys' third "proper" album (not including compilations or live releases), Uh Oh… No Breaks! was released on LP and cassette in March 1985 by Twin/Tone (a Minneapolis label best known for having released The Replacements' early records) with the catalog number TTR 8544.

Voice of San Diego

It has been used as a model for the MinnPost in Minneapolis, the Jacksonville Observer, the St. Louis Beacon, and other similar endeavors being undertaken around the country.

WTCN

KARE, a television station (channel 11 analog/35 digital) licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, which held the call sign WTCN-TV from September 1953 to July 1985

Young Abe Lincoln

David K. Rubins, a native of Minneapolis, studied at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York and the Académie Julian and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.