SKIPPY PEANUT BUTTER

In 1947, Good Foods, Inc. (later Best Food) built a Skippy Peanut Butter plant at 5725 Highway 7, so close to Central Junior High you could smell it. In fact, almost immediately, neighbors from the 3400 block of Yosemite complained of the “smell and rattle.” Skippy was first manufactured in Minneapolis in 1940.

An architect's drawing of the new St. Louis Park plant was included in the November 22, 1946 issue of the Dispatch, which stated that "Peanuts will be coming in by the carload to the new Skippy Peanut Butter plant on Highway seven when construction of the $200,000 building is completed." 

In 1949, you could enjoy the "Skippy Hollywood Theater" every Wednesday evening at 9:30 on WCCO radio. The company built a $50,000 expansion in 1950.

1954

It is said that Skippy moved to Georgia to be closer to the peanuts.

In around 1977, the building became the home of McGarvey Coffee, owned by Superior Coffee and Foods. The company was started in Minneapolis in 1922, and moved when it was displaced by highway construction.

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