Fred W. Anderson (Excelsior book)August 27. An ordinance prohibited motor vehicles from "carrying passengers for hire,May. Action taken at Council meetings shows preparation for summer activities. The
whether local, inter urban or suburban ... on any street in the Village without a
Lake View Park Pavilion received a new permit to hold dances, even on Sundays this
permit from the Council " — except where the State Highway passed through the year. The Council paid the Excelsior Band $250, which was the first half of the
amount granted the group for the coming year. Mrs. W. Dillman, representing theVillage. The ordinance went into effect immediately, and the Yellow Cab Company Woman's Club, asked for money to help finance their public library. Kathryn MixreceivedthefirstnewpermittooperateinExcelsior. (VC)received permission to build and operate a refreshment stand on her mother's property
September 24. Fred W. Pearce & Company of Detroit, Michigan, proposed plans to on Second Street. And Alice Crowley would later receive a permit to have a refresh
build an Amusement Park on lands owned by the Minnetonka Navigation Company,ment stand on the Fairley property. (VC)
The project was approved and construction began. (VC)May 30. The Excelsior Amusement Park opened on Decoration Day. Fred Pearce had
spent about $250,000 for the roller coaster, the miniature railway, the airplane swing,
1925 the Ferris wheel, Old Mill, and other thrilling devices. (MR)
January 30. Children and the "young at heart" must have been impatient for summer
as they watched men building the Amusement Park. They must have admired Lloyd v.r.
Mann's powerful team of grays hauling machinery to the site of the "Mountain g ''
Ride" roller coaster. And they must have wondered how it would feel to ride to the
dizzy height of 65 feet, only to plunge earthward in the ups and downs of what some
called "one of the most thrilling amusement devices in the country."7--.'''
April 22. Milk dealers who received permits this year to operate dairies in Excelsior a
were F.W. Anderson (manager of the L.S. Gillette Dairy), F.S. Carpenter, H. Palmer,Y ;n
the Grathwol Brothers, A.K. Baldwin and J.H. Seelye. (VC)
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Several of the seven Grathwol boys had a dairy farm on St. Albans Bay and a store in Excelsior
1920s
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