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BUSINESSES

The following is a list of Park businesses, including bars and restaurants, for which we have some information.  Also see a list of businesses that were included in a 1929 directory, albeit with no addresses.  Please note that businesses in the various shopping centers are not included here; see the entries below for Miracle Mile, Lilac Way, Knollwood, Texa-Tonka, and Westwood Shopping Centers. 

 

Additions and corrections are very welcome; please contact us.

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A

AAA Minneapolis

Ace Manufacturing, Inc.

Acme Stone and Lumber

Ahler's Pharmacy

Al's Bar

Al's (Brookside) Barber Shop

Amalgamated Eating and Drinking Co.

Ambassador Motor Lodge - Wayzata Blvd.

Ambassador Motor Lodge East - Excelsior Blvd.

American Cynamid

American Inn

Anchor Inn

Anderson Cadillac

Fred G. Anderson

Anderson's Cleaners

Androc Chemical Co.

Ann and Andy's Tavern

Applequist Ice Co.

Appliance Recycling Centers of America (ARCA)

Arcade Television and Appliances

Archambo Food Market

Arneson Nursery

Artcraft Plastics, Inc.

Arts and Flowers

Associated Litho

Atkinson Drug Store

B

Baja Del Sol Tortilla Grill

Bally Total Fitness

Banks and Finance

Baskin Robbins - Excelsior Blvd.

Baskin Robbins - Texa-Tonka

Batteries Plus

Bavaria Art Glass Studio

B. Dalton Booksellers

Beek's Pizza

Behning Hardware

Bell's Delicatessen

Beltline Industrial Park

Beltline Pay Dump

Beltline Pay Dump - From the Re-Echo

Benson Optical

Louis Berkowitz's Grocery Store

Bernie's Park Delicatessen

Bill Boyer Ford

Betty's Cafeteria

Billman's Park Funeral Home

Bird Cage Restaurant

Bird House

Blossom Florist and Diner

Blossom Shop

Bob's Snack Shop

Bon Giorno Italian Restaurant

Booker & Wallestad

Booth Pharmacy

Boulevard Barbers/Beauty Salon

Boulevard Chiropractic

Boulevard Cleaners

Boulevard Delicatessen

Boulevard Drive Inn

Boulevard Furniture

Boulevard Grocery

Boulevard Pizza

Bradley Transfer - Something in the Water

Braun's

Bright Spot

Brink's Hardware/Variety Store

Brochin's Book and Gift Shop

Brooks Service Station

Brookside (Al's) Barber Shop

Brookside Dairy Bar

Brookside Drug

Brookside Drug - Something in the Water

Brookside Grocery (Dana Thompson's Store)

Brookside Hardware

Brookside Market (next to Brookside Drug)

Brookside Market - Something in the Water

Andy Brown's Pool Service

Doc Brown's Barber Shop - Something in the Water

Doc Brown's Barber Shop - From the Re-Echo

Browne Plumbing Co. - Something in the Water

Buddy's (Grocery Store)

Buffalo Wild Wings

Buhler-Miag Corp.

Bunnys

Burlington Coat Factory

Burn-Zol Inc.

Byerly's

C

Calhoun Dairy - From the Re-Echo

Calhoun Plaza

Citizen's Bank

Bill Carlson Electric Co.

Canfield Dietrick Lumber Yard - Something in the Water

Cardinal Glass

Carney Company

Century Foundry

Char Broiler Cafe

Chi's Super Market

Chick-Inn

Chicken Delight - Excelsior Blvd.

Chicken Delight - Minnetonka Blvd.

Christy's Gas Station - Something in the Water

City Cat Clinic and Condos

Clark’s Submarine Sandwich Shop

Classic Motor Company

Cliff's Drive-In

Clifford Sampson Interiors

Coast To Coast Headquarters

Coast to Coast Retail Store

Cocka-Doodle-Do

Colonial Inn

Colonial Inn Bakery/Pantry

Connco Shoes

Cosom

Costco - Lake Street

Cotton Club

Court House Racquetball and Handball Club

Creosote Memoir

Creosote Plant

Crib Diaper Service

Cronstrom's

Culbertson's

Culligan Soft Water - 3550 Brunswick

Cusack & Carlson

D

Dari VI - 6210 W. 36th Street

Dairy-Mor Drive-In

Dairy Queen/Dairy Wipt

Daly's Variety and Gift Shop

Danny Woo's Cafe

DeMuth Kennels

Dependable Motors

Desnick's Boulevard Pharmacy

Dine-Eez Breakfast Nook Company

Distinctive Dentistry

Diversified Brokerage Services

Docken's Store

Don's Minimax/Park Market

Donut Tree

Dorsher Grocery & Meats

Doubletree Hotel

Duff's in the Park

Duggan's

E

Early Park Businesses

Eclipse Electric Co. - Something in the Water

Econ-o-Wash Laundry

Edina Realty

Edward’s Pipe and Tobacco Shop

Edward's Restaurant and Bakery

El Patio

Elayne Galleries

Ember's - 7525 Wayzata Blvd.

Ember's - 3924 Excelsior Blvd.

Employment Agencies

Enga Funeral Home

Engell Dairy Memoir

Ernie's Barber Shop

Erv's Small Engine Repair

Esterly Harvester Co.

Evanoff Gardens

Evenson Paint and Wallpaper

Excelsior Quick Shop

Expressions Furnishings

F

Fairway Fine Food Store

Falcon Gas

Family Fruit Store

George Faust's

Fern Hill Hardware

Fern Hill Store

Find! Antique Store

Finney Co.

First Federal Savings and Loan

Fishman's Deli

Flame Metals

Flameburger

Foo Chu Cafe

Fosston Wind Stacker Co.

Four Flags Restaurant

Fox and Mink Farming

Freeland's Grocery

Charles M. Friedheim Co.

G

Galaxy Drive-In

Gamble Skogmo

Garton Dairy/Park Purity Dairy Store

General Office Products

George's In the Park

German Auto Works

Giller Drug

Giller's Liquors

Gold's Clothing

Golden Auto Parts

Good Food and Company

Good Life Spa

Goodyear

Gopher Glass

Gordon Brothers Red & White Grocery

M.L. Gordon Sash and Door Co.

Grain Elevators

Gravel Pits

Gravel Pits Memoir - Something in the Water

Gravely Tractors

Graybow-Daniels Plumbing Supply

Grimsrud Shoes

Grossman Television

H

H&H Cafe

Hanson Hardware

Hardcoat Inc.

Harmony Fabrics

Har-Ned Lumber Company

Hermstad Gas

Highland Delicatessen

Highway Hobby House

Hodroff's Food Market

Hoigaard's

Hoglund Plumbing

Holand Motors

Holiday Gas Stations

Home Hardware

Homedale Nursery

Honeywell

Hot Licks Records

House of Vision

Hove's

Howard's Pharmacy

Howley's Snack Shop

I

T.E. Ibberson Co.

Infinity

Irish Washerwoman

J

Japs-Olson

Jenning's

Jiffy Car Wash

Jiffy Lunch

Johnson Brothers Plumbing and Heating - Lake Street

Johnson Brothers Plumbing and Heating - Excelsior Blvd.

Johnson Cashway Lumber Yard

Johnson Family Garden

Johnson Hardware

Oscar Johnson Fairway Fine Food

Jolly Troll

Jon English Salon

Joppa Beauty Salon

Joppa Pharmacy

Jorvig's Floral Shop

Jose's Restaurant

K

K9 Hydrotherapy

Kay Motors

Keller Brothers Sporting Goods, Photography - 5601 Lake Street

Keller Brothers Sporting Goods, Photography - Miracle Mile

Kendaco, Inc.

Kidcapers

Kilbourne Lumber Co.

King's Inn (Lilac Way Shopping Center)

Klein's Super Market

Kmart

Knollwood Liquors

Knollwood Plaza/Mall

Knollwood Village

Koch's Grocery

Koehler Food Store

Koval's Appliances

Kowloon Chow Mein

Kuempel Chime Clocks

Kwik Shop

L

La Miracle Dining

Lacy, Walker Inc. Food Brokerage

Lake Street Hardware

Lake Street Store

Lakeland Door

Lambin Motors

Lang-Nelson

Joe Lann's Confectionery

Larry's Pharmacy

Latitudes Map and Travel Store

Lilac Way Cleaners - Minnetonka Blvd.

Lilac Way Shopping Center

Lincoln Del

Lindsay-Greenfield Vehicle Co.

Linsk Flowers - 4825 Minnetonka

Linsk Flowers - 5555 Lake Street

Lithium Plant

Lloyd's Hardware

Loffhagen Insurance

Loffler Properties

Lumber Stores, Inc.

Lund's Supermom Bakery

Lynch's Cafe

M

McCarthy's Cafe

McCourtney Plastics

McDevitt's Hardware:  Excelsior Blvd, Brownlow Ave.

McDonald's

McGarvey Coffee

McGilligan's Grocery

McGlynn's Trav'l Bake

Market Basket

Martin Manufacturing Co.

Marvin's Skelly

Master Music Co

Merry Hill Kennels

Metalloy Corp.

Meyer Hardware

MicroCenter

Midas Auto Service

Midwest Mailing Systems

Milburg Co.

Milk House

Mill City Plywood

Milt's Market

Minikahda Dairy Store/Minikahda Hobby Shop

Minikahda Hardware

Minikahda Mobil - Sid Brown's Pure Oil

Minikahda Motor Lodge

Min-it Market

Minneapolis and St. Louis Reduction Works

Minneapolis Box Lumber Co.

Minneapolis Chair Co.

Minneapolis Jarless Spring Carriage Co.

Minneapolis Malleable Iron Co.

Minneapolis Moline

Minneapolis Specialty Manufacturing Co.

Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co.

Minnesota Poultry and Egg Company

Minnesota Rubber

Minnesota Rubber - Something in the Water

Minnesota Rubber - From the Re-Echo

Minnesota Taxidermy

Minnesota Tree Service

Miracle Mile Shopping Center

Mr. Clutch

Mr. Q's

Modern Floors

Moldestad Grocery

Monitor Drill

Mootz & Schmidt Appliances

Moritz Food Market

Morning Star Women's Health & Birth Center

Mulberry's Environmentally Friendly Cleaners

Musicland

N

Naegele's Restaurant

Napa Jack's

National Lead

National Lead - Something in the Water

National Tea Company - Excelsior Blvd.

New Dutch Grill

New Horizons Day Care - Excelsior Blvd.

1929 Businesses

Nonie’s Chow Mein

Nordeen Studios

Nordic Ware

Northern Aire Pools

N.W. Metal Manufacturing Co.

Nurseries

O

Oak Hill Grocery

Oak Knoll Animal Hospital

Obe's House of Beauty - 7200 Minnetonka Blvd.

Opitz - 4300 Excelsior

Opitz - 4304-06 Excelsior

Opitz - 4320 Excelsior

 

P

Palm Bakery - from the Re-Echo

Pannekuiken Huis

Park Auto Upholstery

Park Bus Co. - Something in the Water

Bernie's Park Delicatessen and Bakery

Park Drive In

Park Drug

Park Electric Co.

Park Employment Agency

Park Lane Carpet

Park Mobil

Park Music Center

Park National Bank

Park Pet Hospital

Park Purity Dairy Store

Park Putt Miniature Golf

Park Standard Service

Park Studio

Park Tavern

Park Terrace

Park Theater Building

Park Village

Patchin Appraisals

Pavek Museum of Broadcasting

Peavey-Hauglin Experimental Grain Elevator

Peavy-Hauglin Grain Elevator - from the Re-Echo

Pengelly X-Ray Co.

Penny's Super Market

Penrose & Crain Carpet Co.

Pentel Pontiac

Perkins - 4150 Excelsior Blvd.

Perkins - 5001 Excelsior Blvd.

Perma-Stone Twin Cities Co.

Pic-A-Pop

Pickwick Records

Pier I Imports

Piggly Wiggly

Pizza Hut - Minnetonka Blvd.

Pizza Hut - Excelsior Blvd.

Planet Ford

Plehal Heating Co.

Pockrandt Lumber Co.

Polo Restaurant

Port Arthur Cafe

Premier Plastics

Premiere School of Self-Improvement and Professional Modeling

Prest-o-Lite Company

Print Shop

Property Damage Appraisers

Pylon Drive In

Pyrofax Gas Co

Q

R

Radio AAHS – CTO Broadcasting

Radio Shack - Excelsior Blvd

Radio Shack - Knollwood

Ray's Radio and TV

Ray and Arne’s Sandwich Shop

Red Owl Country Store

Reddy Rents

Jack Reed's Drive-In

Douglas Rees Associates

Reilly Tar and Chemical

Reiss's Restaurant

Reiss Corner - Something in the Water

Renner Drilling - Something in the Water

Republic Creosoting

Resop Realtors

Restaurants No Limit (Naegele)

Riviera Imports

Roach Inn

Road Buddies

Robinson Rubber Products

Rodgers Hydraulic

Rodeo Drive

Rodgers Hydraulic - Something in the Water

Roger's Service Center

Rose Fashion Optical

Ruden China - 4150 Excelsior

Ruden China - 4304 Excelsior

Ruedlinger Nursery - also see Something in the Water

Ruth's Toggery

S.J. Rutherford Co.

S

S&K Drive In

S. Clein, Inc.

St. L Loader Company

St. Louis Park Service Garage

Sage Hen Restaurant

Salkin and Linoff

Sam's Club

Sambo's Restaurant

Sandvig and Sandvig Accountants

Sandvig and Sandvig Accountants - Something in the Water

Santorini Taverna

Santos Nursery

Schadow Insurance Agency

Scherling Studios/Scherling-Pletsch - 6300/04 Lake Street

Scherling Pletsch Studios - 6610 Lake Street

Schlotzky’s Deli

Scotty’s Rent-it/Marine Mart/Dry Cleaning

Seirup Concrete - Something in the Water

Sela Roofing

7-11

Shaft-Pierce Shoe Co.

Shakey's Pizza

Sheraton Park Plaza Hotel

Sherm's TV

Shink Pharmacy

Shoppers' City

Showcase Tile and Tops

Silver Fox Farm

Skad's Travel (Lilac Way Shopping Center)

Skippy Peanut Butter

The Slipt Disk

Slumberland

Smith Motors

Smith Pharmacy

Smoky Point Cafe

Snack Shops

Sol's Skelly

Sol's Superette

Southdale Shopping Center

Spirits of St. Louis Wine Shop

Sport Wheels

Sports and Health Club

Stalnaker's Appliances

Standard Plumbing and Appliance

Sticks and Stones Interiors

Stillman's Food Stores - 4000 Minnetonka

Stillman's Grocery Store - 4100 Minnetonka

Suburban Electric

Suburban Ready-Mix

Sugar Beet Plant

Sunnyside Gas Station

Swaetz Department Store

Swenson and Redeen Groceries - Something in the Water

T

Target

Tatra Ski Shop

Texa-Tonka Lanes

Texa-Tonka Shopping Center

Texas Tonka Liquors

Thomas Charles Salon

Thompson's (Brookside) Grocery - Something in the Water

Thompson's Home Hardware

Thompson Wagon Co.

Tim's Pharmacy - Minnetonka Blvd.
Tim's Pharmacy #2 - Excelsior Blvd.

Timothy O'Toole's Bar

Tom's Stereo Sales

Topps Discount City

Tower Place

Town and Country Furs

Traficante Accordion School

Treasure's Island

Trestman Music

Trenkley's Store

Ty's New Park Market

U

Underwood's

Unexcelled Manufacturing Co. 

Union Carbide and Carbon Corp

V

Vescio's Cucina

Fred Vogt Heating and Air Conditioning

Vogue Furniture

W

Wade's BBQ

Wagner's Drive-in

Walbom's

Wallis Buggy Co.

Walt's Canteen

Walser Ford

Ward's Chow Mein

Warren Pharmacy

Wax Museum

West Lake Motor Rebuilders

West Side Volkswagen

Westerdahl Hardware

Westinghouse

Westmans Floral

Westwood Motel

Westwood Shopping Center

Wheeler Lumber, Bridge and  Supply Co.

Who Cares Inc. (Outdoor Shop)

Willow Tree

Wilkins Pontiac Fiat

Wittman's Marine and Hardware

Witt's Super Valu

Wolfe Lake Professional Center

Danny Woo's Cafe

Wooddale Professional Building

X

Y

Yngve and Yngve Attorrneys

Yoga Center of Minneapolis

J.C. Younger Co.

Youngstedt's Gas - Excelsior Blvd.

Yum!

Z

Zayre Shoppers City

Zip Printing

This information comes from a variety of sources: newspapers, books, yearbooks, phone directories, interviews, etc. Given the varied sources, we cannot guarantee that all of this information is correct, and welcome any additions and corrections. Please contact us with your contributions and comments.