Monthly Archives: November 2009
- November 28, 2009
- Grandma’s Saloon & Deli
Grandma’s Restaurant Company was founded on the legend of Grandma Rosa and based on the principle of pleasing customers one at a time. Legend has it a young Italian immigrant named Rosa Brochi opened her first boarding house to lonely sailors in the Great Lakes port of Duluth, MN, near the turn of the 20th [...]
- November 26, 2009
- Purina “Chow Plant”
Purina Mills, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of animal feed products in the United States, producing more than five million tons of feed each year. Through its 50 feed mills, the company produces thousands of feed formulations specially designed for various types of animals, including beef and dairy cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, poultry, pets, [...]
- November 20, 2009
- Pillsbury “A” Mill
In 1879, after five years of secret planning, Charles Alfred Pillsbury announced to the public that he would build the largest and most advanced mill the world had ever seen. He had traveled to mills all over the world, searching for the best technique for milling flour on a large scale. Despite the convention of [...]
- November 13, 2009
- Ramada Inn
Ramada opened its first hotel – a 60-room facility – on U.S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 (which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the [...]
- November 13, 2009
- Upper Harbor Terminal
This is The Port of Minneapolis, a city-owned barge terminal that is operated by River Services, Inc. Truck traffic makes this a dangerous place. Almost any non-hazardous commodity may be present at this terminal, including grain, lumber, phosphate fertilizer, seed oil, steel, twine, paper, pipes, and salt. The igloo-shaped storage tanks are used for solids, [...]
- November 6, 2009
- ADM Mill Part 1 & 2
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) is one of the world’s leading processors and distributors of agricultural products for food and animal feed, with additional operations in transportation and storage of such products. Its principal operations are in the processing of soybeans, corn, and wheat, the three largest crops in the United States. ADM also processes cocoa beans, [...]
- November 6, 2009
- Silgan Containers
The old Silgan Containers factory is a sprawling heavy manufacturing complex covering eight acres on ——— just north of ———- Ave in St. Paul. The oldest building dates to 1889, and by 1926 4 more additions increased the floor space to 150,000 square feet. Three more expansions in the mid fifties added another 300,000 square [...]
- November 5, 2009
- Welcome to the new TCUR look!
Over the next few months myself and others in the squad will be converting, updating, adding and enhancing the website. We have a new look as well. Using WordPress we can more easily interact with our fans and not only that they will be able to navigate the same way as before by going to [...]
