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It was also one of the most important venues for the burgeoning rock-music scene in Minnesota in the 1950s and 1960s. [2] The ballroom was one of the final stops (January 28, 1959) on the infamous, ill-fated "Winter Dance Party", the Buddy Holly-led tour which ended in the plane crash that killed Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. The ...
The Met Center was an indoor arena that stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States, a suburb of Minneapolis. The arena, which was completed in 1967 by Minnesota Ice, just to the north of Metropolitan Stadium, seated 15,000. It was the home of the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1993.
The Met finally got a football team when the new American Football League (AFL) announced Minneapolis–St. Paul as one of its charter cities for the inaugural 1960 season. However, the NFL persuaded the team's owners to pull out of the AFL in January 1960 and join the NFL as an expansion team in 1961 , and was later named the Minnesota Vikings .
Roy Wilkins Auditorium (nicknamed The Roy) is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in St. Paul, Minnesota.Designed by the renowned municipal architect Clarence W. Wigington, it was built in 1932 as an arena extension to the existing St. Paul Auditorium (built 1906–1907).
State Street grounds aka Athletic Park aka West Side grounds (II) Home of: St. Paul Apostles - Western Association / Western League (1888–1891) St. Paul Apostles - Western League (1895–1896) (Sundays only) Location: State Street and Eaton Street, on the "West Side".
St. Paul Park or Saint Paul Park [3] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,279 at the 2010 census . [ 5 ] It is on the east bank of the Mississippi River , five miles (8 km) downstream from St. Paul .
The co-owner of Wooly’s, the 683-person capacity venue in the East Village, founded First Fleet Concerts, which will be booking the ballroom’s events, plus the Hinterland Music Festival, and ...
Built in 1856 on the bluffs of the Minnesota River, the Gideon H. Pond House is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places.. In 1839, with renewed conflict with the Ojibwa nation, Chief Cloud Man relocated his band of the Mdewakanton Sioux from Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis to an area named Oak Grove in southern Bloomington, close to present-day Portland Avenue. [13]