Images on this print include
the first truck in Douglas County, part of Richard Chase's 1919 Dray
Line; the Hakes Variety Store fire of July 5, 1963; the Boston Rexall
Drug soda fountain (c. 1955); the view facing north at Sixth and
Broadway as it looked in 1930; Carl and Eva Emerson Wold, founders and
editors of the Park Region Echo; Erc Aga, radio commentator and
newspaper columnist, 1961-1996; looking north from Broadway and Seventh
in the mid 1960's; "Big Ole" - Alexandria's representative to
the 1965 New York World's Fair and downtown landmark; Molly, the cow who
went to High School; Central High School as it appeared in the mid
1930's; developer Phillip Noonan and his "Little Bit O'
Heaven"; graduation party at Blakes by the Lakes Hotel (c. 1920);
Richard W. "Bud" Peterson, Minnesota's WWII ace pilot;
Alexandria's Carnegie Library, built in 1903, as it appeared in 1940; a
1932 aerial view of downtown with Douglas County Courthouse at left and
Central High School near the center.
