Tales of the Road

020 ## $a 9780873516266
050 #4 $a F341.6 $b .W87 2008
082 04 $a 917.76
100 1# $a Wurzer, Cathy, $e author.
245 #0 $a Tales of the road : $b Highway 61 / $c Cathy Wurzer
264 #4 $c �2008
264 #1 $a St. Paul, MN : $b Minnesota Historical Society Press, $c [2008]
300 ## $a x, 134 pages : $b illustrations, color
336 ## $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 ## $a unmediated
338 ## $a volume
500 ## $a includes index.
505 ## $a Highway61-the Road -- North Shore -- Outlaw Bridge -- Hovland Dock -- Naniboujou Lodge -- St. Francis Xavier Church -- Grand Marsais Harbor -- Lusten and White Sky Rock -- Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse -- Stickney Store -- Taconite Harbor -- Colonial Dining Room -- Aztec Hotel and Cabinola Court -- 3m and Crystal Bay -- Mattson Fish House -- Split Rock Lighthouse Lnes -- Split Rock River Pilings -- Split Rock Trading Post -- Gooseberry Falls State Park Refectory -- Two Harbors Lighthouse -- Two Harbors High School -- Kendall's Smoke House -- Duluth to St. Paul -- Gardenwood Motel and Tourist Court -- Gilmore Theater -- Lester River Fish Hatchery -- Duluth Armory -- Aerial Lift Bridge -- Esko's Finns -- Barnum Creamery -- Moose Lake Depot -- Nemadji "Indian" Pottery -- Willow River Rutabaga Plant -- Sandstone "61" -- The Great Hinkley Fire -- Tobie's -- Grant House -- Old Rush City Ferry -- Carpenter's Steakhouse -- White Bear Lake Township Hall -- Johnson Boat Works -- Kstp Radio -- Dayton's Bluff Commercial Club -- Bluff Country -- Billy Dunn's Playground -- Red Rock -- Rock Island and J. A. R. Bridge -- Le Duc Mansion -- Ramsey Mills Ruins -- Red Wing Pottery -- Sheldon Theatre -- Florence Township Hall -- Old Frontenac -- Frontenac Stone Gates -- Lake City Clamming -- Reads Landing -- Wabasha County Poor House -- Rollingstone Colony -- The Oaks -- Sugar Loaf -- Watkins -- Minne-o-wah Club -- Emil and the Otters -- La Crescent Apples
520 ## $a Highway 61 traces approximately 440 miles through Minnesota, from Pigeon Falls at the Canadian border south to La Crescent. Along the way, the road hugs the North Shore, zips through St. Paul, and navigates bluffs along the Mississippi River. While places such as Split Rock Lighthouse or Sugar Loaf Mountain offer well-documented stopping-off points, observant travelers may wonder about historic buildings , abandoned sites, and decaying structures they see along the way. In this companion book to a new Twin Cities Public Television documentary also called Tales of the Road (airing in November 2008), Cathy Wurzer unearths stories about these places and more as she travels down the road and into the past, spotlighting famous and fascinating locations, many of them little remembered today. Learn about bootleggers crossing the St. Croix by ferry or importing hooch from Canada onboard vessels designed in White Bear Lake. Visualize--or maybe even visit--the quaint tourist cabins, supper clubs, and lodges that served tourists who began motoring up the road in the 1920s. Take stock of historic and current industries: Russ Kendall's Smokehouse in Knife River, a rutabaga plant in Willow River, the pottery factory in Red Wing. Each tale is illustrated with historic and current views to show how much-or how little-Highway 61 has changed. Here's one road trip you won't want to miss!
650 ## $a Minnesota $x Description and travel
730 1# $i Complemented by (work): Tales of the Road (Motion picture)

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