‘Miscellany’ Archives
Phoenix of Phillips Launch FRIDAY!
Come and hear the fabulous youth poets of the Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts as they launch the 8th edition of The Phoenix of Phillips literary magazine. Food and surprises! Friday, March 3rd, from 5-7pm at Midtown Global Market. Check out the Facebook event link below! Phoenix of Phillips Launch- FB Event
The Grease Presser: Rediscovering Forgotten Trades of the Southtown Yards
IMAGE 1 IMAGE 2 IMAGE 3 IMAGE 1 1945 aerial view showing Southtown Yards in the center. Lake Street runs east/west along the bottom, and Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery can be seen in the lower left corner. Photo Credit: John R. Borchert Map Library, University of MinnesotaIMAGE 2 Contemporary aerial view marking the location of the old roundhouse between Hiawatha and Minnehaha Avenues, just south of East 26th Street. Photo Credit: Google EarthIMAGE 3 Patent diagram showing Oscar Zerk’s ingenious method of injecting grease into internal moving parts. By JOHN ANDERSENA century ago, South Minneapolis was home to thousands of skilled tradespeople. Right next to our neighborhood was the largest roundhouse of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul, and Pacific Railroad, more commonly known as The Milwaukee Road. The roundhouse had forty-six stalls and was completed before 1900. In the center was a ninety foot electrically operated turntable. Immediately adjacent were the [...]
Pat Welna’s Life Story
Pat Welna. Photo courtesy the Welna family. Written by VIRGINIA (WELNA) MAGNER Edited by SUE WELNABorn in Minneapolis, MN, in 1929, Pat Welna was raised as an only child. When she was seven, her parents divorced, although her father visited frequently. The family would go on outings to the MN State Fair, to the fireworks at Powderhorn Park and to family gravesites on Memorial Day. On the Fourth of July, Pat would have her one annual ice cream cone. During two Minneapolis Aquatennials, a teenaged Pat danced in a chorus line at the Orpheum Theater wearing long beautiful dresses and big fancy hats.During the Depression, times were tough. Pat’s mother turned their small home into a boarding house with ten roomers. Pat slept on a ¾ cot in the living room with a female boarder and her mother slept nearby. The hook behind the dining room door was Pat’s clothes closet. Her mother also ran a wedding catering business out of their home.Pat attended St Margaret’s High School. As a [...]
