When John “Jack” E. Quistgard, a young pharmacist from Warren, Minn., wanted to buy Bemidji’s Glass Block Drugstore in 1950, none of the local banks would give him a loan.
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For 75 years, Bemidji had grown and developed a personality of its own, but much of that was centered around downtown Bemidji. The town’s reach also expanded in the 1970s and ’80s as development moved from the city’s core.