Gunnar Nordbye ca. 1925. Nordbye was one of the federal judges who handled cases related to the Minneapolis-based prostitution ring headquartered at John’s Bar and Funhouse.

Gloria Jordell (left) and Phyllis Bennett (right) being booked on morals charges in Minneapolis, August 13, 1952. Minneapolis Star Tribune portraits collection, box 38.

George MacKinnon, ca. 1939. Photo by Greystone Studios Inc.

John’s Bar and Funhouse (2500 Marshall Street Northeast, Minneapolis), April 2, 1953. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Postcard of the front of the Jackson Hotel, ca. 1939. The postcard was sent to relatives by Inez Foley, who worked at the hotel for a time. Used with the permission of the Anoka County Historical Society.

Image from a glass plate negative showing the front desk of the Jackson Hotel, ca. 1926. Cigars for sale are visible in the case, and a timetable for the Anoka Electric Line is fixed to the back of the cash register. Art Anderson is one of the men in the photograph. This image was used as an advertisement at Green’s Theater, located on Main Street in Anoka a few blocks from the hotel. Photographer unknown. Used with the permission of the Anoka County

: The Jackson Hotel (214 Jackson Street, Anoka), 1978. Photograph by Robert Kirchner.

Anoka’s Jackson Hotel, built in the 1870s and then rebuilt by Charles G. Jackson in 1884 after a fire. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever, July 2, 2013.

A worker points to a section of the collapsed I-35W bridge on August 3, 2017. Photograph by Kevin Rofidal (Edina Police Department).