Sixty years ago today...

Remember glasnost? Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, visited the Minnesota Governor’s Residence in St. Paul during a 1990 tour of the United States. Gov. Rudy Perpich and his family treated the Gorbachevs to a lunch of Red Lake walleye.

On this date in 1918, workmen removed a statue of Germania from the Germania Life Insurance building in downtown St. Paul. A wave of anti-German hysteria swept the U.S. after its entry into World War I, and Minnesota was no exception.

Former Pioneer Press photographer Roy Derickson called this photo of St. Paul's twin domes "Church and State." He shot it in September 1981 with a telephoto lens from Jessamine Avenue and Mississippi Street, about a mile northeast of the Capitol.

PiPress Archives Pioneer Press This is a great “secret” viewpoint in St. Paul, looking across I-35E. Growing trees have partially blocked the view over the decades - here’s that same general view from 2020

Sad news, @nytarchives on Twitter is retiring after eight years. I've been lucky enough to post on this scrappy little account hundreds of times and met lots of passionate folks interested in our archives. Here's my favorite tweets! 🧵

Wabasha at 5th St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 23, 1949 Image: St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press via Minnesota Historical Society

Cool special section in today’s ⁦Pioneer Press⁩

With our 175th birthday coming up next year, we dipped into the Pioneer Press photo archive to bring you "Twin Cities Snapshots," a hardcover photographic history book featuring more than 250 images by PiPress photographers. Available for pre-order here: store.twincities.com/product/7QAMPP…

The debut issue of the Minnesota Pioneer – the state's first newspaper and the earliest ancestor of the Pioneer Press – hit the streets of St. Paul 175 years ago today.

On April 24, 1949, the St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press published its 420-page centennial edition, the 2nd largest paper in U.S. history, complete with funnies and a letter from President Truman. I’d like to thank the reader that dropped off this gem…

One of the FBI’s original 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was caught in St. Paul — by a bunch of kids pipr.es/9JycI2l

One of the FBI's original 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was caught in St. Paul -- by a bunch of kids twincities.com/2025/03/15/wil… via Pioneer Press

Minnesota Historical Society launches online Pioneer Press archive twincities.com/2025/09/25/min… via Pioneer Press

Wow! Wow! Much of Pioneer Press old newsprint on the Internet to read and enjoy as one trapses through this 'jewel archive'. Thanks to Mike Burbach and Nick Woltman among others. Also ourselves with the Legacy $$$. twincities.com/2025/09/25/min…

AWAY WITH YOU, MICROFICHE: The Minnesota Historical Society has digitized 750,000 pages of the Pioneer Press dating back to the 1860s, reports Nick Woltman. There’s a searchable database. History at your fingertips… twincities.com/2025/09/25/min…