June 30, 1929: Say it was early Sunday morning and you wanted to get some help writing a classified?
The Minneapolis Tribune Want Ad Arcade at 4th and Marquette had you covered. It offered walk-up, in-person want ad placement and writing consultation, opening at 7 a.m. every single day of the year.
(2) The Tribune had opened its Want Ad Arcade with some fanfare a few years earlier. Here are two views it published on Dec. 26, 1926.
The latest Arcade reference I can find in the Tribune is in Oct. 1940, by which time the paper was prioritizing telephone sales over the demoted counter.
