Gold Medal Flour Re-Listen

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The crumbled ruins of the world’s largest flour mill became one of Minneapolis’ most prominent graffiti-writing locations, and later a museum. Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mill-city-museum-site-great-mill-disaster

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, we are doing something a little bit different on the podcast today.
0:05.0	We are going to be answering one of your questions, and so we ask you submit questions for
0:12.0	us, and some of these questions are general travel questions.
0:16.6	Some of them are personal questions.
0:19.1	Some of them are moral questions, so we are going to pull one out of the bag, and I am
0:25.4	going to do my best to give you an answer.
0:28.9	So let's see what we got.
0:31.6	What was your first exploration as a kid or as an adult?
0:37.3	My first exploration is in quotes.
0:41.7	Well, I think there is a place actually sort of between when I was a kid and an adult.
0:53.0	That is one of the first places I ever really fell in love with.
0:59.5	Gold metal flower.
1:01.8	I'm Dylan Thurus, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible
1:08.0	and wondrous places.
1:10.0	More, after this.
1:23.0	I grew up in Minneapolis.
1:28.3	It's such a cool city.
1:30.4	It is just fun, vibrant place, and there's this building in Minneapolis called Gold Metal
1:37.2	Flower, and mills like this defined Minneapolis and St. Paul for a while.
1:43.0	They used to actually call the city Mill City, and Gold Metal Flower at one time was the largest
1:51.2	flower mill in the world.
1:53.4	It made enough flower to bake 12 million loaves of bread every day.
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