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 These are the Mound Westonka pictures pages. There are various pictures and photos of Westonka (Minnesota) here. To get to MoundWestonka.com, click HERE. 
John's Pet & Variety, The old Ben Franklin, 4/12/06 The Ben Franklin has been here since at least the 1960s. It used to sell penny candy back then. You can now buy hamsters, smoke bombs, model kits, fabric, trading cards, tropical fish, flowers, tomato plants and bird feeders at John's.
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The Great Northern Railroad’s Minneapolis to Hutchinson branch served the resorts on the Northern part of Lake Minnetonka. The branch ran through Wayzata, Orono, Minnetonka Beach, Navarre, Spring Park, Mound, Minnetrista, and Saint Bonifacius. The Great Northern owned and operated the Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka Beach. For a time, Lake Minnetonka was more served by trains and lake steamers than by roads. The branch is now often referred to as Dakota Rail or Trail, and is in the process of being converted first to a trail, and in the distant future, a light rail line. Zumbra Heights is in the area of the intersection of Highway 7 and Rolling Acres Road, South of Smithtown Bay. According to the 1895 Atlas, Zumbra Heights had a post office and railroad. The railroad is now the Northern part of the Southwest Regional LRT Trail, which does not have light rail at the present time, but will someday. This trail in the past was owned by Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. The Heights had a landing name after it in the early part of the 20th century, that was visited by Minnetonka's lake steamers. Since 1908, the Heights was the location of the State Fruit-Breeding Farm. In 1915 the farm seems to have been run by no less than Superintendent Charles Haralson, who that variety of apple is named for. The now named U of M Horticultural Research Center (HRC) has also been instrumental in the introduction of the Honeycrisp and Zestar! Apples. Zumbra is also a variety of Cherry-Plum that was introduced by the HRC in 1920. Site Search that returns hits from only my sites:
Old William's Store in Mound. Where one could buy a pair of shoes. 4/23/06
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Election Signs at Three Points and Commerce. Sept. 2006. This and the corner at Island Park Skelly are the places in Mound to see campaign signs. 
Old Carl's Station at Busy Corners. April 2006. Carl's was a place where you could have someone else pump your gas for you. Sometimes that would be a highschool kid who would also wash your windows and check your oil. According to Hennepin County, the building was built in 1935. 
Saunders Lake, Fall 2005
5680 Bartlett Blvd. April 2006
Gillespie Center in the back.
Kevin Sorbo at the Grandview Middle School Library. 4/28/06. Kevin attended Grandview, or our other Middle School, Mound Westonka Junior High.  Some of the pictures on these pages can be made larger by moving the mouse over the image and that will bring up this symbol which can be clicked to expand the image to its full size.
Do you have any pictures that people might be interested in seeing when they are looking up the Westonka area on the Internet? Perhaps you have a story about the past that is worth sharing? Let me know if you do. Have a look at the new Mound Westonka Blog on this page, and thank you for visiting these pages.
David Greenslit
Mound, Minnesota 
Shirley's Hill. Saint John's Church is seen here, as well as Mound's new watertower. Three of the streets on the hill are not surprisingly, Fairview, Ridgewood and Chateau.
Village by the Bay. Sept. 2006. Here we are looking into the outfield of the old Babe Ruth field from about where the concession stand was. 
Seton Business District along Shoreline in Mound. It includes the Westonka Animal Hospital, the Computer House, State Farm Insurance, National Power Chair, Babler's Automotive, MinneSoftTub and Small Engine Services.
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