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St. Louis Park is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota and a first ring-suburb immediately west of Minneapolis. Its neighboring cities include Edina, Golden Valley, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Hopkins and Minneapolis. It is the birthplace and childhood home of movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, singer/songwriter Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, author/satirist Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, writer Pete Hautman, baseball announcer Halsey Hall, and football coach Marc Trestman. The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, which has a major collection of antique radio and television equipment, is also in the city. Items range from radios produced by local manufacturers to the Vitaphone system used to cut discs carrying audio for the first "talkie", The Jazz Singer. (Full article) |
