Tales from the land of sky blue waters
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Between 1946 and 1954, the Hammer's brewery site was expanded to twenty acres with 1,300 workers. Hamm's became one of the country's top beers, advertising that it came "From the Land of Sky Blue Waters."
Hamm's placemat from no earlier than 1950 and no later than 1965.
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
When German immigrant and former butcher/saloon owner Theodore Hamm bought a struggling business on Phalen Creek in St. Paul in 1864, would he have thought it would become one of the largest breweries in the country? That first year there were five…