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Seventy-Five Years of the Minneapolis Aquatennial |
| In 1940 civic leaders in
Minneapolis hit upon the idea of sponsoring an annual summer
festival, and from the very first, the Minneapolis
Aquatennial was a smashing success; so much so that it was
featured in Life and Look magazines, and came to be known as
America's Summer Festival. In this book, lavishly illustrated with more than 300 vintage photographs, author Pam Albinson chronicles the festival's history and describes the myriad activities associated with it, including rodeos, celebrity appearances, parades, athletic competitions, aeronautical displays, art fairs, a week-long series of swimming and diving performances called the Aqua Follies, and the ever-popular Queen of the Lakes Coronation. The book is rich in nostalgic appeal, but it also offers a fascinating perspective on changing times, as choral singing gave way to ''happenings,'' canoe races were dropped in favor of high-powered speedboat racing, and polka events were augmented by dance lines and disco. Essays have been included by the men and women who built the parade floats, those who served as ''royalty'' in various capacities, those who judged the Queen of the Lakes contests, and those who won them. |
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 Little Sisters of the Poor, 215 Broadway Street NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
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 Post Office, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
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 The Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Walker Art Center and North American Life and Casalty Building, Lyndale and Hennepin Avenues, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
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 Ford Inter-City Bridge, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 3rd Avenue Bridge and Downtown Minneapolis, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 New addition at the Augustana Home, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Yuen Faung Low aka John's Place, 28 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 St. Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
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 Artists sketch of new addition to Fairview Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1955 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1956 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Chateau de Paris in the Hotel Dyckman, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1956 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Lutheran Brotherhood Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1957 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Interior of the Academy (Shubert) Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1957 Courtesy University of Minnesota Libraries - click image to enlarge |
 Aquatennial Parade, Minneapolis, Minnesota, late 1950s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Businesses in the 200 block of South 4th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1959 Courtesy Hennepin County Library - click image to enlarge |
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