Minneapolis, every mention
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Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:34 David Rosenthal When he's 19 years old in 19 oh two, he establishes his own candy company there in Minneapolis and goes into business selling his creations and other people's creations wholesale to these local retailers, merchants, drug stores, et cetera,…
- ▶ 10:09 David Rosenthal So it was regional and it wasn't popular around the country and certainly not in Minneapolis.
- ▶ 11:24 David Rosenthal And Ethel stays in Minneapolis and takes a job as a department store clerk and just hits reset on her life.
- ▶ 12:17 David Rosenthal This Seattle candy venture goes about as well as the Minneapolis one.
- ▶ 12:48 David Rosenthal We're now in 1920, and Frank and Ethel number two return once again to Minneapolis, figuring that 10 years have gone by, they can now show their face around town again.
- ▶ 39:39 David Rosenthal So this now brings us back to Frank Mars in Minneapolis and the fourth candy company and what is different this time, which is chocolates.
- ▶ 39:49 David Rosenthal So when Frank first gets back to Minneapolis and starts up the fourth company, he had seen out in Seattle and Tacoma that buttercream truffles were like really, really popular.
- ▶ 40:00 David Rosenthal So he brings the buttercream truffles, he steals from the companies out there, uh, brings the concept back to Minneapolis,
- ▶ 46:59 David Rosenthal There's the whole state of Wisconsin between Minneapolis and Chicago.
- ▶ 51:25 David Rosenthal Now, how he wins a scholarship to UC Berkeley, which is, you know, the public University of California when he's living in Canada and he's from Minneapolis is...
- ▶ 53:32 David Rosenthal That's when he joins the traveling camel cigarette sales team, and that probably is when somewhere or another, maybe it was in Chicago, maybe it was in Minneapolis, he reconnects with his dad, Frank, and discovers that Frank had become a…
- ▶ 57:23 David Rosenthal So the first thing he suggests to his dad, Frank, is that, hey, we gotta get out of Minneapolis.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:28:50 David Rosenthal The Dayton Hudson company in Minneapolis launches Target in 1962.