Oh boy, it's the doughboy!

Happy 150th birthday! The Pillsbury company got its start in Minneapolis on this day in 1869 when John and Charles Pillsbury bought a small flour mill on the banks of the Mississippi. The company grew and so did the town, earning the nickname Mill City. According to a recent story by Eric Roper in the Star-Tribune, the last flour mill in Minneapolis will shut down in August. 

The video by Erik Koskinen is a favorite and (sort of) fits the theme.

We have a very tenuous connection to the Pillsbury dynasty, having purchased our home from a great grandson of Charles (also named Charles Pillsbury but everybody around here calls him Chuck).