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VolsteadlandTrue Crime Minnesota: the Early Years Author: Collected Sounds Media
Volsteadland is your passport to the dark, boozy, bullet-riddled backstreets of 1920s1940s Minneapolisa city teeming with secrets, speakeasies, and the sinister charm of one of its most infamous figures: Isadore Kid Cann Blumenfeld.Join hosts Amy and Heather as they peel back the curtain on the era when mobsters called the shots, politicians looked the other way, and the Twin Cities were anything but squeaky clean.From prohibition-fueled mayhem to brazen bank robberies, Volsteadland dives deep into the true crime tales and hidden histories that defined a citys shadowy past. With painstaking research, vintage newspaper clippings, forgotten books, and even first-hand accounts, this independent Minneapolis-made podcast resurrects the real stories buried beneath decades of dust (and corruption).Pour yourself a stiff drink and step into Volsteadlandwhere the gangsters wore fedoras, the cops took bribes, and the truth is always stranger than fiction. Language: en-us Genres: History, True Crime Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Volsteadland LIVE announcement
Episode 18
Sunday, 30 March, 2025
Hello!!! It’s great to see you again!We’ve been on hiatus, but wanted to come back and tell you about our LIVE show coming up in May 2025.So we’re dusting off our mics and getting back in the game! Then hopefully you can join us at our live show on May 3rd 2025.Our guests will be Ron de Beaulieu, Author of Minnesota's Most Notorious Mobster: The Making and Breaking of Kid Cann,Filmmaker, Michael Greenberg director of, “The Combination” which is included in this year’s Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, andPaul Maccabee, historian / author and basically the Kid Cann expert.We hope to also have time to bring audience members up on ‘stage’ to tell their own stories. So if you have any family lore or history stories about Kid Cann or his cronies, come prepared to tell them. If you want to reach out to me beforehand, please email at volsteadland@gmail.comPrepare for engaging interviews, lively discussions, and maybe even a few surprising revelations! This is your chance to hear firsthand from the experts and get your burning questions answered.We hope to see you at the CC Club on May 3rd 2025!Volsteadland is a podcast about the seedy underworld of the 1920s and 30s and even beyond, in Minneapolis. In each episode, we chose a story from that era to present to you. Credits:Hosts: Amy and HeatherTheme Music: "The Last Prayer (to Isadore Blumenfeld)" by Paolo For LeeBackground Music: "The Velvets" (instrumental version) by CannelleProduction, Artwork, and Editing: Amy Lotsberg at Collected Sounds Media, LLC. If you or your parents, grandparents, etc. have any stories, folklore, or anything really, on the gangster mobster life in Minneapolis in the 1920s through 1960s, please let me know. We’d love to get in touch and chat about it or use your story in the podcast. Anonymous of course, unless you want credit!You can leave a message (voice or text) on the website, https://www.podpage.com/volsteadland Just click on the little microphone at the bottom right of the page. You can also call 612-424-1684 (leave voicemail or text), or Email: Volsteadland@gmail.comWe'd love to hear from you for any reason! Just send us a note to tell us how we're doing! Engage!Our website: http://www.volsteadland.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/volstead_land/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VolsteadlandFB Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/volsteadland/Blog: http://www.volsteadland.com/blog Get your own Volsteadland T-shirt: https://www.bonfire.com/store/volsteadland-merch/Watch the video versions of these episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@volsteadlandVolsteadland is produced by me, Amy, at Collected Sounds Media and is part of the Collected Sounds Indie Podcast Network. Thanks for listening! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/volsteadland/donations
