Dream Cacher Traditional Geocache
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Gluek Park, 1926 Marshall St. NE
Acquired in 1978, Gluek Park encompasses 3.75 acres along the
Mississippi River in Northeast Minneapolis. It is named for the
Gluek Brewery, part of which occupied the current park land.
In 1994, the Gluek family donated money for a gazebo and river
overlook. The park has new picnic tables, benches, pathways, an
overlook at the riverbank, a gazebo and a drinking fountain.
a note posted on April 11 by emmanogoldfish:
Gluek Brewing started out in 1857 as Mississippi Brewery, Gluek and
Rank. Gottlieb Gluek spent two years working for John Orth at one
of the four breweries (that would eventually become Grain
Belt).
Gluek left John Orth and joined with John Rank. Their brewery was
built about a mile north of John Orth's at Twentieth Ave and
Marshall NE.
In 1862, Rank left the business to become liquor dealer, and Gluek
carried on the firm by himself (which was renamed Gottlieb
Gluek).
In March 1880, the brewery was gutted by fire, and Gluek's sons
(Louis, Charles and John) rebuilt the brewery and named it G. Gluek
& Sons. During this period, the brothers declined to join the
Minneapolis Brewing CO. merger. The Gluek companies did little to
expand the reach of their brand and was also rather passive in
marketing against both regional and non regional competitors.
What Gluek did have was the second largest number of tied saloons
paying little attention to the bottled beer trade. Having that
number of tied saloons was a problem when Prohibition came as
Ginger Ale just could not generate enough saloon business. Luckily
the Glueks had holdings in other areas such as farming.
The brewery was kept in working order during Prohibition which
allowed Gluek to be able to have truckloads of beer ready to leave
the gates at exactly moment that Prohibition officially ended,
April 7, 1933.
With tied saloons now a thing of the past, the future was in
packaging, and Gluek tried them all. He was an early adopter of the
beer can. Another innovation was a product by the name of Stite, a
patented new recipe of Malt Liquor which generated the nickname
"Green Death".
Competition from larger regional and National brewers forced the
prices down and squeezed Gluek out. Gluek was sold to G. Heileman
of La Crosse in 1964. Heileman brewed at the site until 1966 when
the labels were sold to Cold Spring Brewing Co. and the brewery was
demolished.
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