Minneapolis roared into the 1920s as a major metropolis, but it lacked the kind of outdoor Amusement facilities common elsewhere across the country.
Changes in the forms of transportation, combined with innovations in the outdoor.
Luckily, Excelsior Park survived the Great Depression and World War II on the strength of its celebrity acts.
Pearce introduced the Twin Cities to his "Picnic Wonderland." Crowds eagerly poured onto the shores of Lake Minnetonka by the trolley load.
In 1925, Fred W.
Minneapolis roared into the 1920s as a major metropolis, but it lacked the kind of outdoor Amusement facilities common elsewhere across the country