La Vie Robbinsdale
This post is the fifth in a series based on the A+ history paper Roberta Lee Scoville’s wrote while attending Minneapolis Business College in 1976. The picture up top of features Robbinsdale in the … Read more
True Confessions
True Confessions, Northern Headlights and the Eastern Star
ROBBINSDALE HAS Progressive Community Spirit Wide awake Commercial Club Thriving Religious Institutions Finest School in the state, well manned and equipped The BEST WATER (by analysis) in the state Broad loyal streets-two miles of paving … Read more
Our Next Membership Meeting is March 22nd!
Robbinsdale’s historical connection to Breezy Point, Minnesota dates back to the days of Whiz Bang. In 1919, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, better known as “Captain Billy,” published the first issue of Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang. Filled … Read more
True Confessions
In Robbinsdale we usually associate Captain Billy and Fawcett Publishing with our summer civic festival, Whiz Bang Days., but there was another magazine that helped put Robbinsdale’s publishing giant on the map. A couple years … Read more
Robbinsdale’s Most Important Industry
“Robbinsdale’s brick sky scraper, where three million readers all over the United States look to find their jokes, love stories and blood curdling adventure yarns in the three magazines published here- Whiz Bang, True … Read more
About Robbinsdale
Introduction Robbinsdale was named for entrepreneur, politician, and real estate developer Andrew Bonney Robbins. While serving in the Minnesota State Senate, Robbins often passed through the area just north of Minneapolis by train. He was … Read more