Best picture Crookston Hotel and Strandner's Abstract

This is the best picture postcard I have found to date for the former Crookston Hotel.  Remember how we used to sneak away from Central High School to order that huge plate of french fries?


Notice on the right side is the original storefront of what we call the Strandner Abstract building or the Anderson Camera building.  So that is what is underneath all that granite!  a real beauty.


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