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...downtown, an amusement park to rival Valley Fair. Uff-Da days, Scandinavian history events, re-enactments of Baby Face Nelson and the days of prohibition. Local police in the uniform of the day. Shops like Nisswa only to our new theme, restaurants...
...Front Street. It's great that the interior of this historical building is being restored to the day of fame when Baby Face Nelson "made history." More on the story please.Vox Pop, voice of the people, publishes Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays...
...and find a treasure," Steve Foy said. The bank building itself is a history tale in itself as infamous gangster Baby Face Nelson robbed it on Oct. 23, 1933, after reportedly spending the night before staying at the Ransford Hotel. The Foys...
...cut the state budget. So Joliet, whose massive limestone walls have housed such infamous criminals as George "Baby Face" Nelson, will be closed early next year. Once it was among the largest prisons in the country, but Joliet's permanent...
...to see another day begin. Titus was the bank guard at First National when the bank was robbed of $33,000 by the Baby Face Nelson gang. He was threatened with death nine times. 60 years ago (1942) The Brainerd High School Triple Trio and a...
...robbery of the First National Bank on Front Street that brought him face to face with notorious Depression-era outlaw Baby Face Nelson. Five bank robbers, armed with machine guns, got away with $32,000.
...melodrama, Dudley Trueheart and the Gold Nugget Mine Caper will provide comedy while an old-time radio story of the Baby Face Nelson bank robbery, which happened in Brainerd in 1933, will give the show a local flavor. A trio of female voices...
...robbery headed by the notorious Baby Face Nelson 70 years ago, has died. Photos...brick from that October day when Baby Face Nelson and his gang held up the bank...basement furnace, he said. "Baby Face Nelson crouched down on his knees in...
...Much of the entertainment would have a railroad theme and Crowe said they also would like to do a re-enactment of Baby Face Nelson's 1933 bank robbery at the First National Bank in Brainerd. A third performance area would be a free stage where...
...1933 armed bank robbery. The bank building, which now houses a pawn shop, is a landmark in the downtown area. Baby Face Nelson led the five gunmen who robbed the bank more than 64 years ago. Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls» Purchase reprints...