MN90: Rochester History in 90-Seconds
Series produced by KRPR
a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.
a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.
80 Pieces
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1966 – Jackie May and Barney Code savored the wilds near where they lived in the Cannon River Valley. They wanted to turn it into a park so it woul...
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
August 1965 – Revernd Gallagher had only stopped out of the rectory for an errand. But he was gone long enough that scruffy Beatle-type ran off wit...
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
December 8, 1962 – Fifty casualties from a bombing the nation’s capital were flown to hospitals in Rochester. Fortunately, it was just a simulation.
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
May 17, 1961 – Chatfield boxer Duane Horsman had 20 straight wins behind him. But could he stand toe-to-toe with Tiger Jones?
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
July 1, 1958 Winona’s new baseball team needed to draw a crowd. Why not bring in the Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin?
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
July 13, 1957 - Ray Zweiner, Blooming Prairie, had been competing in trapshooting competitions for two decades. But was this the year he would fin...
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
January 1956 - Blooming Prairie had one working physician. But now Uncle Sam wanted him for the Doctor Draft.
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
September 1948 – The wire service reported the death of former New York Yankee Julie Wera. It was news to Rochester butcher Julie Wera.
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 01:30
October 2001: Omar Abdel Rahman was a 63-year-old blind cleric and inmate with health issues serious enough that he was incarcerated at Rochester’s...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1999: John Madden, sportscaster and former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, hadn’t been there in over half a century. But he was back in Austin, ...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1998: What was King Hussein, Jordan’s head of state, doing in Minnesota bluff country? Visiting a goat farm. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1997: Lee Coggins’ job was to prepare the space shuttle Columbia’s astronauts by simulating disaster scenarios. But the crew had a real one when th...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1997: Doug Reuter, Owatonna’s congressman to the Minnesota House of Representatives, believed in dreams. One had helped him create a best-selling b...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1981: A weepy-voiced man called the police to confess. He’d killed a woman with an ice pick and he’d do it again, unless they stopped him. Here’s B...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1975: President Gerald Ford was offering clemency to Vietnam War evaders. Paul Tungseth wasn’t interested. He’d already served prison time. And why...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1972: The president of Rochester State Junior College determined the man would never come to campus. The students were equally determined he would....
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1979: Rochester was Richard Nixon’s kind of town. Now if only every campaign stop had cheering crowds instead of egg-throwing protesters. Here’s Br...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
October 1970: E. G. Marshall didn’t talk about the past because it involved “illness and break-up and things it’s just not pleasant to remember.” W...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
March 1954: Mark Harris’s classmate went from worrying about class assignments to planning his funeral. Now the memory of that dead classmate was t...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
Early 1950s: Peg Lynch developed a short domestic comedy, Ethel and Albert, at her Albert Lea radio station to fill time in a woman’s half-hour. Th...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
