BUSINESSES

The following is a list of Park businesses for which we have some information.

This list includes bars and restaurants.
See Entertainment for places like bowling alleys and other places to have fun.
Movie Theaters are on a separate page.
Hotels are listed on a separate page as well.
Also see a list of businesses that were included in a 1929 directory, albeit with no addresses.
Businesses in the various shopping centers may not be included on the list below; see the entries below for Miracle Mile, Lilac Way, Knollwood, Texa-Tonka, and Westwood Shopping Centers.
Also see Early Park Businesses
Additions and corrections are very welcome; please Contact us.

A

AAA Minneapolis

Ace Manufacturing, Inc.

Acme Stone and Lumber

Ahler’s Pharmacy

Al’s (Brookside) Barber Shop

Amalgamated Eating and Drinking Co.

Ambassador Motor Lodge – Wayzata Blvd.

Ambassador Motor Lodge East – Excelsior Blvd.

American Cynamid

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 – 6610 W. Lake Street

Associated Litho – 6500 W. Lake Street

Atkinson Drug Store

Axel’s Tuck’d Away Inn

B

Baja Del Sol Tortilla Grill

Bally Total Fitness

Banks and Finance

Baskin Robbins – Excelsior Blvd.

Baskin Robbins – Texa-Tonka

Bavaria Art Glass Studio

B. Dalton Booksellers

Becky’s Cafeteria

Behning Hardware

David C. Bell Investments

Bell’s Delicatessen

Beltline Industrial Park

Beltline Pay Dump

Louis Berkowitz’s Grocery Store

Bernie’s Park Delicatessen

Bill Boyer Ford

Betty’s Cafeteria

Billman’s Park Funeral Home

Bird Cage Restaurant

Blossom Florist and Diner

Bob’s Snack Shop

Bon Giorno Italian Restaurant

Booker & Wallestad

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

Brink’s Hardware/Variety Store

Brochin’s Book and Gift Shop

George L. Brooks Service Stations

Brookside (Al’s) Barber Shop

Brookside Dairy Bar

Brookside Drug Memoir – Something in the Water

Brookside Grocery (Dana Thompson’s Store)

Brookside Hardware

Brookside Market – Also see Something in the Water

Andy Brown’s Pool Service

Doc Brown’s Barber Shop and Pool Hall

Also see Something in the Water

Browne Plumbing Co. – Something in the Water

Bruce Construction Co.

Bruegger’s Bagels

Buddy’s (Grocery Store)

Buffalo Wild Wings

Buhler-Miag Corp.

Win Stephens Buicktown

Burlington Coat Factory

C

Citizen’s Bank

Bill Carlson Electric Co.

Canfield Dietrick Lumber Yard – Something in the Water

Century Foundry

Char Broiler Cafe

Chi’s Super Market

Chicken Delight

Christy’s Gas Station – Something in the Water

Chux Screen Printing

City Cat Clinic and Condos

Clark’s Submarine Sandwich Shop

Classic Motor Company

Cliff’s Drive-In

Clifford Sampson Interiors

Clothing Distribution Center (C&R Clothiers)

Coast To Coast Headquarters

Coast to Coast Retail Store

Cocka-Doodle-Do

Colonial Inn Colonial Inn Bakery/Pantry

Color-Ad Packaging, Inc.

Cosom Corporation

Court House Racquetball and Handball Club

Crib Diaper Service

Cronstrom’s Heating and Air Conditioning

Culbertson’s Restaurant

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

Dependable Motors

Desnick’s Boulevard Pharmacy

deVillier Coiffures

Dine-Eez Breakfast Nook Company

Distinctive Dentistry

Diversified Brokerage Services

Docken’s Store

Don’s Minimax/Park Market

Dorsher Grocery & Meats

Doubletree Hotel

Duff’s in the Park

Dworsky General Store

E

Early Park Businesses

Ecklund & Swedlund Construction

Eclipse Electric Co. – Something in the Water

Econ-o-Wash Laundry

Edward’s Pipe and Tobacco Shop

Edward’s Restaurant and Bakery

Eide Motorcycle Sales and Service

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

Family Fruit Store

George Faust’s Restaurant and Liquor Storium

Fern Hill Hardware

Fern Hill Store

Find! Antique Store

First Federal Savings and Loan

Fishman’s Deli

Ford Dealer – Highway 100

Fosston Wind Stacker Co.

Four Flags Restaurant

Fox and Mink Farming

Freeland’s Grocery

Charles M. Friedheim Co.

Friedman’s Department Store

G

Galaxy Drive-In

Garton Dairy/Park Purity Dairy Store

General Office Products

George Faust’s Restaurant and Liquor Storium

George’s In the Park

German Auto Works

Giller’s Liquors

Glacier Plastics

Gold Hare Salon

Gold’s Clothing

Golden Auto Parts

Good Food and Company

Gordon Brothers Red & White Grocery

M.L. Gordon Sash and Door Co.

Grain Elevators

Gravel Pits – Also see Something in the Water

Gravely Tractors

Graybow-Daniels Plumbing Supply

Grossman Television

H

Hanson Hardware

Harmony Fabrics

Har-Ned Lumber Company

Hedberg-Friedheim

Hennepin-Lake Stationers

Highland Delicatessen

Highway Hobby House

Hodroff’s Food Market

Hoglund Plumbing

Holiday Gas Stations

Homedale Nursery

Hot Licks Records

House of Vision

Howard’s Pharmacy

Howley’s Snack Shop

I

T.E. Ibberson Co.

Irish Washerwoman

J

Jackson Seat Covers

Jarless Spring Carriage Company

Johnson Brothers Plumbing and Heating

Johnson Cashway Lumber Yard

Johnson Hardware

Oscar Johnson Fairway Fine Food

Jon English Salon

Joppa Beauty Salon

Jorvig’s Floral Shop

Jose’s Restaurant

K

K9 Hydrotherapy

Keller Brothers Sporting Goods and Camera Store

Kilbourne Lumber Co.

Klein’s Super Market

Knollwood Liquors

Knollwood Plaza/Mall

Knollwood Village

Koch’s Grocery

Koehler Food Store

Koval’s Appliances

Kowloon Chow Mein

Kuempel Chime Clocks

L

La Miracle Dining

Lacy, Walker Inc. Food Brokerage

Lake Street Hardware

Lake Street Store

Joe Lann’s Confectionery

Larry’s Pharmacy

Latitudes Map and Travel Store

Lerum Automotive

Lilac Way Candies (Georgas)

Lilac Way Cleaners – Minnetonka Blvd.

Lilac Way Shopping Center

Lindsay-Greenfield Vehicle Co.

Lloyd’s Hardware

Loffhagen Insurance

Loffler Properties

Lumber Stores, Inc.

Lund’s Supermom Bakery

M

Betty Ann McCall Accordion School

McCarthy’s Cafe

McCourtney Plastics

McDevitt’s Hardware: Excelsior Blvd, Brownlow Ave.

McGarvey Coffee

McGilligan’s Grocery

McGlynn’s Trav’l Bake

Martin Manufacturing Co.

Marvin’s Skelly

Master Music Co

Merry Hill Kennels

Metalloy Corp. (Lithium Plant)

Midas Auto Service

Midwest Mailing Systems

Mill City Plywood

Milt’s Market

Minikahda Dairy Store/Minikahda Hobby Shop

Minikahda Hardware

Minikahda Mobil – Sid Brown’s Pure Oil

Minikahda Motor Lodge

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 – Also see Something in the Water

Minnesota Taxidermy

Minnesota Tree Service

Miracle Mile Shopping Center

Moldestad Grocery

Mootz & Schmidt Appliances

Moritz Food Market

Morning Star Women’s Health & Birth Center

Mulberry’s Environmentally Friendly Cleaners

N

Naegele’s Restaurant

National Lead – Something in the Water

National Tea Company – Excelsior Blvd.

National Tea Company – Minnetonka Blvd.

National Tea Company – Knollwood

Nestle/Novartis

New Dutch Grill

New Horizons Day Care – Excelsior Blvd.

1929 Businesses

Nonie’s Chow Mein

Nordeen Photography Studios

Northern Aire Pools

N.W. Metal Manufacturing Co.

O

Oak Hill Grocery

Oak Knoll Animal Hospital

Obe’s House of Beauty – 7200 Minnetonka Blvd.

Paul E. Olson & Son Builders

Opitz – 4300 Excelsior

Opitz – 4304-06 Excelsior

Opitz – 4320 Excelsior

P

Palm’s Bakery

Pannekuiken Huis

Park Auto Upholstery

Park Bus Co. – Something in the Water

Bernie’s Park Delicatessen and Bakery

Park Electric Co.

Park Employment Agency

Park Lane Carpet

Park Music Center

Park National Bank

Park Natural Foods

Park Pantry Co-Op

Park Pet Hospital

Park Purity Dairy Store

Park Putt Miniature Golf

Park Standard Service

Park Theater Building

Park Vacuum – 6610 W. Lake St.

Park Vacuum – 7008 Highway 7

Patchin Appraisals

Pavek Museum of Broadcasting

Peavey-Hauglin Experimental Grain Elevator

Pengelly X-Ray Co.

Penny’s Super Market

Penrose & Crain Carpet Co.

Perkins – 4150 Excelsior Blvd.

Perkins – 5001 Excelsior Blvd.

Perma-Stone Twin Cities Co.

Pickwick Records

Pilgrim Cleaners

Pizza Hut – 6315 Minnetonka Blvd.

Pizza Hut – 5804 Excelsior Blvd.

Pizza Hut – Westwood Shopping Center

Plastidip – Gumby and Pokey

Plehal Heating Co.

Pockrandt Lumber Co.

Polo Restaurant

Port Arthur Cafe

Precise Products Corporation – 7217 W. 27th Street

Premier Plastics

Premiere School of Self-Improvement and Professional Modeling

Prest-o-Lite Company

Property Damage Appraisers

Q

Quadion Corporation

R

Radio AAHS – CTO Broadcasting

Radio Shack – 5250 Excelsior Blvd

Radio Shack – Knollwood

Rainbow Plastics

Ray’s Radio and TV

Ray and Arne’s Sandwich Shop

Red Owl Country Store – 3700 Highway 100

Red Owl Store – Miracle Mile

Red Owl Store – Knollwood Plaza

Jack Reed’s Drive-In

Douglas Rees Associates

Reilly Tar and Chemical (Creosote Plant)

Reinhard Brothers Co.

Reiss’s Restaurant – Also see Something in the Water

Renner Well Co. – Also see Something in the Water

Republic Creosoting

Restaurants No Limit (Naegele)

Reynolds Aluminum Building Products

Reynolds Welding Supply

Riviera Imports

Robinson Rubber Products

Rodgers Hydraulic – Also see Something in the Water

Roger’s Service Center

Rose Fashion Optical

Ruden China – 4150 Excelsior

Ruden China – 4304 Excelsior

Ruedlinger Nursery

Ruth’s Toggery

S.J. Rutherford Co.

S

S&H Construction Co.

St. L Loader Company

St. Louis Park Service Garage

Sage Hen Restaurant

Salkin and Linoff

Sambo’s Restaurant

Sand and Gravel Companies

Sandvig and Sandvig Accountants – Also see Something in the Water

Santorini Taverna

Schadow Insurance Agency

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

Scherling Pletsch Studios – 6610 Lake Street

Schlotzky’s Deli

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

Sam Segal, Builder

Seirup Businesses – Something in the Water

Shaft-Pierce Shoe Co.

Shakey’s Pizza

Shoppers’ City

Shotwell Company

Showcase Tile and Tops

Silver Fox Farm

Skad’s Travel (Lilac Way Shopping Center)

Skippy Peanut Butter

Russell Smith Construction

Smoky Point Cafe

Snyder Electric

Sol’s Superette

Spirits of St. Louis Wine Shop

Sports and Health Club

Stalnaker’s Appliances

Standard Plumbing and Appliance

Win Stephens Buicktown

Sticks and Stones Interiors

Stillman’s Food Stores

Suburban Electric

Suburban Ready-Mix

Sugar Beet Plant

Super Valu Store – Lilac Way

Sunnyside Gas Station

Swatez Department Store

Swenson and Redeen Groceries – Also see Something in the Water

Swiss Chalet Buffet

T

Texa-Tonka Lanes

Texa-Tonka Shopping Center

Texas Tonka Liquors

Thomas Charles Salon

Thompson’s (Brookside) Grocery – Also see Something in the Water

Thompson’s Home Hardware

Thompson Wagon Co.

Tim’s Pharmacy – 4801 Minnetonka Blvd.
Tim’s Pharmacy #2 – 6001 Excelsior Blvd.

Timothy O’Toole’s Bar

Tom’s Stereo Sales

Topps Discount City

Town and Country Furs

Traficante Accordion School

Treasure’s Island

Trenkley’s Store

Ty’s New Park Market

U

Underwood’s Cafe

Unexcelled Manufacturing Co.

Union Carbide and Carbon Corp

V

Venetian Pool/Venetian Gardens

Vescio’s Cucina

Fred Vogt Heating and Air Conditioning

Vogue Furniture

W

Wagner’s Drive-in

Wallis Buggy Co.

Walt’s Canteen

Ward’s Chow Mein

Warren Pharmacy

West Lake Motor Rebuilders

West Side Volkswagen

Westerdahl Hardware

Westmans Floral

Westwood Hills Construction Co.

Westwood Shopping Center

Wheeler Lumber, Bridge and Supply Co.

Who Cares Inc. (Outdoor Shop)

Rollie Williams Music Co. (Guitar Store)

Wilkins Pontiac Fiat

Win Stephens Buicktown

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.

Z

Zayre Shoppers City