PiPress Archives

@pipressarchives.bsky.social

70 Followers 35 Following

Exploring St. Paul’s past through the pages of the Pioneer Press.

Two children play a game on the bottom bunk of a set a bunk beds inside a cinder block structure.
A collapsed bridge span lies in a river as emergency crews work nearby.
A man with a notebook and a pen crouches down next to a hippopotamus, whose mouth is slightly open.
Two barge-mounted cranes lift a section of a bridge span into place, completing its central arch. The downtown St. Paul skyline is in the background.
A pair of pedestrians walk down a sidewalk while two others cross a street in a busy downtown street scene from 1906. Behind them, a building under construction has a sign painted on its wall that reads, “Emporium: Fastest growing store in the Twin Cities.”
The front page of an extra edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press from June 6, 1944, with a banner headline reading “Invasion” in large capital letters. A subheadline reads “Allied forces land in France.”
Four men in gym shorts and sandals exercise with medicine balls on the roof of a building. A sign next to them reads, “To protect our sun deck privileges, we must not offend our neighbors in the surrounding tall buildings. Therefore all sun bathers must wear gym pants. No one is permitted on the sun deck in the nude.”
A paddleboat steams down a river with the St. Paul skyline in the background.
A woman carries a skeleton out of a building with a sign above the door that reads “The Science Museum,” while a man beside her carries taxidermy animals.
A police officer gives a stern look to a man dressed in St. Patrick’s Day regalia who is carrying a beer on the sidewalk.
The words "From the Archives" in a gothic script against a background of newspaper front pages.