St. Louis Park is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a first ring-suburb immediately west of Minneapolis. Other adjacent cities include Edina, Golden Valley, Minnetonka, Plymouth, and Hopkins. Its population was 44,126 at the 2000 census.
It is the birthplace or childhood home of American editors author and music historian Stacy Harris, movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, musician Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist...
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St. Louis Park is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a first ring-suburb immediately west of Minneapolis. Other adjacent cities include Edina, Golden Valley, Minnetonka, Plymouth, and Hopkins. Its population was 44,126 at the 2000 census.
It is the birthplace or childhood home of American editors author and music historian Stacy Harris, movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, musician Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Senator Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, writer Pete Hautman, writer Stacy Harris, and football coach Marc Trestman. Baseball announcer Halsey Hall also lived there.
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.
Directors Joel and Ethan Coen set their 2009 film, A...
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