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Oscar Dally 1972A series of photos by Del Stelling featuring Oscar Dally and Dolly's Store, April, 1972.
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Oscar Dally sign 2020Although his name is not spelled correctly on the sign, it marks the site of his popular store on Crystal Lake.
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Oscar DallyOscar Dally at his store, published in the Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News September 9,2022.
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Oscar DallyMaryann and Gary Mortenson hung a sign from Oscar Dally's business in their home
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Emma Dally's wedding dressEmma Dally's wedding dress June 30, 1909
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Oscar DallyThe Dally cabin at Crystal Lake in the 1920s.
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Dolly Store moved to RosemountAfter the death of Oscar Dally his store was sold and moved to an area of Rosemount where a resident created a generic "old town" of Dakota County. The site is now a housing development.
Walt Strese of Rosemount created his own Antique Town in the valley behind his home on County Road 33 in Rosemount. Included was the Gibson Barbershop or Rosemount and Dally Store from Crystal Lake. The antique village no longer exists.
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Dally's Dolly Store mored to RosemountAfter the death of Oscar Dally his store was sold and moved to an area of Rosemount where a resident created a generic "old town" of Dakota County. The site is now a housing development.
Walt Strese of Rosemount created his own Antique Town in the valley behind his home on County Road 33 in Rosemount. Included was the Gibson Barbershop or Rosemount and Dolly Store from Crystal Lake. The antique village no longer exists.
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A plaque for Dolly (Dally) Several dozen residents from Crystal Lake gathered September 27, 1980 to dedicate a plaque to Oscar Dolly (correct spelling Dally) a life resident of the area and shop owner for 54 years. He died in 1977.
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Break-in at Dolly's five youth caught and charged 1964November 18, 1964 Dakota County Tribune
Dolly's Market on Crystal Lake Road was the scene of a break-in early Sunday morning about 4:00 a.m... The market is owned by Oscar Dolly.
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Oscar Dally Oscar Dally cabin at Crystal Lake.
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Oscar DallyOscar Dally's Dolly's store before being moved to Rosemount.
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Oscar DallyThe site of the Oscar Dally cabin after being removed.
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Dally Street in BurnsvilleThe City named one of the streets near the location of his store, in honor of Oscar Dally.
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Oscar Dally behind his house in Burnsville.Oscar's store was very close to the roadway, with just enough room for roadside parking. The house is set back (it still exists in 2016.) The house was restored beautifully, an addition added to the rear, while preserving the as-built portion to the east.
late 1920s or 1930s.
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Oscar DallyOscar Dally in his store at Crystal Lake, undated.
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Historical collection keeps Dally legacy alive September 9, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Dolly’s Place was a Crystal Lake fixture
In 1976 Gary Mortenson bought Oscar Dally’s house, a bungalow built in 1921 from a kit sold by the Gordon-Van Tine Co.
“It didn’t have any indoor plumbing,” said Mortenson, who was beginning a new job as a math teacher at Apple Valley High School. “And it had buckets where the roof leaked, but otherwise it was in pretty good shape.”
Mortenson never knew Dally, who was in the hospital at the time and died the following year at 91. But moving into his house was an ice-breaker with Mortenson’s new neighbors on Crystal Lake in Burnsville.
“I think he was kind of, well, famous,” said Mortenson, who has added onto the house and still lives there. “When I first bought this house, if I said I lived at Oscar’s house, they knew exactly where I lived.”
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Oscar Dally and family historyIn 2022 the personal papers and photos of Oscar Dally and his family were donated to the Dakota Coumty Historical Society and its msuseum.
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Oscar Dally plaque 2017Although his name is not spelled correctly on the sign, it marks the site of his popular store on Crystal Lake.
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Oscar Dally plaque 2017The plaque remembering Oscar Dally and his store can barely be seen behind the trees.
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Oscar Dally photo 2020Dally Street near the site of Oscar's store at Crystal Lake.
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Oscar Dally'sEarly photo 1930's of Oscar Dally's Place - later named Dolly's Place.
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Oscar Dally - Dolly's PlaceStreet named in honor of Oscar Dally and his Dolly's Place.
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Dally's Place1925 located at Crystal Lake was one of the first mercantile businesses in Burnsville and was popular among residents of all ages as it was a place one could buy limited supplies of groceries and the like, and it was also a place one could sit and visit neighbors. (Del Stelling 1980).
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Oscar Dally resort cabinPossibly this was first Dally living structure, later rented as resort cabin after 1293 house built. Date may say 1920.
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Dolly's storeA painting of Dolly's Store, owned by Oscar Dally, at Crystal Lake. Compliments of the Holman family.
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