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Grandpa Leslie Johnson, a creative man of many talents, bought a triangular shaped lot in St. Louis Park in the late 1950's. By that time, he'd spent a few decades building postwar housing in the Minneapolis suburb and claimed to have built 170 homes in the prior 17 years. But his triangular lot was a… Continue reading The Crooked Little House
In 1935, my maternal great-grandfather Robert Johnson, at the age of 60, opened a new Dance Pavilion & Beer Hall at 4639 Excelsior Boulevard, St. Louis Park, MN. Prohibition had ended, and although it was the height of the Great Depression, perhaps happy days were here again. Or perhaps great-grandpa Robert liked music and dancing… Continue reading Grandpa Robert Johnson’s Dance Pavilion
(This article was a winner in the Minnesota Genealogical Society 2020 Family History Writing Competition and was published in their Winter 2020 Quarterly Journal. A link to the PDF copy of the article is here: Christine Johnson-MGS2020.) Christine Johnson, nee Kingström, was born 23 December 1881, in Nordåker, Gagnef, Dalarna, Sweden. Her parents may have… Continue reading What’s in a Name? Christine Kingstrom Johnson
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