Holdingford & Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer (recently diseased chess champion) purchased his first automobile from the Kroska Motors dealership in Holdingford.
After winning his world championship match with Boris Spassky in 1972 he took driving lessons from Ed Kroska’s son, who owned a car rental company in California. Ed’s son ordered all of his vehicles through the Kroska Motors dealership (making Ed the nation’s top salesman one year), including Bobby Fischer’s first car.
shared by Joe Christiansen

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cira 1912 Holdingford Main Street

Not exactly sure when but probably circa 1912 as the water tower was built between 1910-12.
There were 3 saloons in town at the time. Each paid a $500 liquor license fee. [same as it is today] Back then it covered the whole city budget.
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Holdingford on Ebay

I was bidding on a neat photo of Main Street Holdingford from sometime between 1912-17. I didn't get it. I went for the minumim bid and it went for a lot more. Very limited funds for that kind of thing. Oh well. I hope they take good care of it.
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Car Dealerships and Gas

Kroska Motors from the early 1960's. At one time Holdingford had a Ford,G.M and Chevy dealerships in town. In the 60's there were 3 gas stations.
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Progress of a Building

On the north end of Main Street is a building that started out as the Farmers State Bank, which went bankrupt in the twenties and has been a beer bar and restaurant under various owners since..
From 1929-69 this was 'Kornies Korner Kitchen', now days it is the 'Corner Pizza and Antiques' where they make a great homemade pizza, and you can sit amongst antiques while you eat.

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1932 air view of City

A photo of Holdingford from the 'Minneapolis Journal' from February 21. 1932. Taken by John J. Kollodge of the 109th air squadron flying with pilot Lieut. Frank Judd of Minneapolis.This was taken after a snowstorm. If you know the layout of town you can see what buildings were there at the time.
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1906 postcard

Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Thomas Betz and his wife Deborah of Minneapolis. We have recently came into possession of this beautiful postcard, through the generous gift from Mr. N. Kowalczyk, postcard dealer. It predates our other old card by a few years so this postcard is from about 1906. More on this later.

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1912 Village of Holdingford

A picture of the Village of Holdingford,Mn dated 1912. Looking north, most of the buildings no longer exist
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This is the way the depot looked to me in 1974.