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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September 21, 1948: Dr. Edward Kendall, a researcher at Mayo, had been researching and refining compound E for nearly two decades. But now he had h...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1928: Frank Kellogg, Elgin native, former Rochester city attorney and current US Secretary of State, called this the most thrilling day of his life...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1907: When Dr. Charlie Mayo needed a chauffeur, where did he go? To the only auto repair shop in town. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 01:30
November 1951, Donald Buske was a cook in downtown Rochester when he enlisted to fight in the Korean War. He’d get to Korea but only after the war ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Wong’s Café was opened by two brothers, Neil and Ben Wong, in 1952. But this Rochester mainstay has origins that trace back to another Wong family ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
May 25, 1977, Star Wars opened in a measly 32 theaters nationwide that day. Unbelievably, kids in Rochester, Minnesota, would have to wait and wait...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Every November 22, a man in Lake City, Minnesota, thought about 1963. He was George “Bud” Barnum who, back then, was in Washington, D.C., with the ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
The cat was out of the bag. For a year already, since 2015, documentarian Ken Burns and his crew had been quietly filming in and around Rochester. ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
October 22, 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and current UN delegate, arrived in Rochester to kick off United Nations Week. At 77, she di...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
December 1905, a crew set to work in the post-Christmas chill to hurriedly build a temporary tabernacle on an open space in Rochester. Why the fuss...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
For nine years, Phil Johnston stood in front of a map, offering the latest snow alert and heat advisory for Rochester and Olmsted County. But who c...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot is famous for the tension behind the camera. Marilyn Monroe couldn’t remember her lines. But in Minnesota...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
June 6, 1944, Chatfield native Walt Halloran was wading through the surf against a hail of German fire to Omaha Beach. His weapon? A Bell and Howel...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
In 1940, Art Donahue, a St. Charles boy and a graduate of the flight school in Winona, drove to Canada to enlist in the British Royal Air Force. By...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
In 1936, Dr. Erwin Strassmann didn’t plan to be in Rochester, Minnesota, on a stipend to the study at the Mayo. But going back to Berlin wasn’t an ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Blooming Prairie librarian Nancy Vaillancourt was stumped. A patron wanted to know about Steele County’s Ku Klux Klan history. Was there a history?...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Valentine’s Day 1900, Dr. Gertrude Booker Granger married her Rochester lawyer. Some assumed she’d give up the hospital whites for apron strings. T...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
April 1912, two William Mayos set sail on the Atlantic. One was a Minnesota doctor heading east on the SS Amerika. And one was a ship fireman headi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
August 1899, Lieutenant Carl L. Stone was glad to leave the Philippines after a long, dangerous year fighting with the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Reg...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
In 1906, world-famous architect Louis Sullivan’s best days were behind him. But then he got a commission to build a bank in Owatonna. Here’s Britt ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 01:30
