Our Founder’s Birthday
Our founder, Cadwallader Washburn, was born on this date in 1818 (198 years ago!) He started the Washburn Mill Company in 1866 in Minneapolis, 150 years ago. Learn more about him on “A Taste of General Mills.”
Q&A With Our Archivist
Join us on Periscope today for a live Q&A with Jessica Faucher, our corporate archivist! We’ll tweet the link on our Twitter account (@GeneralMills), right at Noon (CT).
Pillsbury Mill, 1910
The Pillsbury Flour Mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota circa 1910 with a primo view of the Stone Arch Bridge in the foreground.
What Happens When You Become A Larro Dealer?
The General Mills Larro Feeds division was created to keep 1940s farm animals happy and well-fed. But what to do with those stylish empty feed sacks? Make clothes, of course. And people did!
At The Top Of The World
This is meteorologist and Arctic explorer Clifford MacGregor. He journeyed to some of the most remote places in the world including Alaska and the Arctic. Here, he’s shown in 1939, bringing a bag of Gold Medal Flour as a gift for an indigenous woman welcoming him to a really cold place!
Betty, 1969
The year was 1969. Elvis recorded his comeback album, the $10,000 bill was pulled from circulation, Woodstock is held and Betty Crocker changed her look to better reflect the modern woman ready to conquer the 1970s.
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