Schubert Club performers in costume

Esther J. Guyer, ca. 1936. Guyer was president of the Schubert Club in St. Paul from 1930 to 1933.

Clifford W. Menz (third from left) with other winners in the Schubert Club's Eleventh Season Competitive Scholarship Awards. From left: Marilyn Zipperman, Omer Schommer, Clifford W. Menz, and Cyril Schommer.

Members of the Schubert Club. Photograph by the St. Paul Daily News, 1935.

Emil Oberhoffer in Minneapolis. Photograph by Lee Brothers, 1921.

The Beatles' press conference in Minneapolis, August 1965, played a part in—or rather, added a guitar to—the group's 1966 album Rubber Soul. Britt Aamodt opens up on the case of the twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar with Minnesota provenance.

The Fab Four played just one night in Minnesota, in 1965. Amazingly, the concert didn't sell out. Find out why.

Minneapolis Tribune reporter Susan Stocking serving coffee to John Lennon at a hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota, on August 21, 1965. Stocking disguised herself as a waitress in order to enter a room with John Lennon, Ringo Star, and George Harrison. The image illustrated the article, “I Was a Waitress for Three Beatles,” published in the Minneapolis Tribune on August 23, 1965. Captured from microfilm in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Audience members at a Beatles concert at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, August 21, 1965. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch–Pioneer Press.