The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, which has a major collection of antique radio and television equipment, is also in the city.

Items range from radios produced by local manufacturers to the Vitaphone system used to cut discs carrying audio for the first "talkie", The Jazz Singer.

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who grew up in St. Louis Park, set their 2009 film A Serious Man in the city c. 1967.

It was important to the Coens to find a neighborhood of original-looking suburban rambler homes as they would have appeared in St. Louis Park in the mid-1960s, and after careful scouting they opted to film scenes in a neighborhood of nearby Bloomington,[5][6] as well as at St. Louis Park's B'nai Emet Synagogue, which was later sold and converted into a school.

Generally, development progressed outward from the original village center at the intersection of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway with Wooddale Avenue.

But Minneapolis soon expanded as far west as France Avenue, and its boundary may have continued to move westward had it not been for St. Louis Park's 1886 incorporation.

Around 1890, the village had more than 600 industrial jobs, mostly associated with agriculture implement manufacturing at the massive Moline Plow Company factory once located just south of downtown.

At the end of World War I, only seven scattered retail stores operated in St. Louis Park because streetcars provided easy access to shopping in Minneapolis.

Sixty percent of St. Louis Park's homes were built in a single burst of construction from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.

In the late 1940s, Minnesota's first shopping center — the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) Lilac Way — was constructed on the northeast corner of Excelsior Boulevard and Highway 100.

In the late 1940s, a group of 11 former army doctors opened the St. Louis Park Medical Center in a small building on Excelsior Boulevard.

These parcels (originally in Minnetonka) came to St. Louis Park because of their ability to provide sewer and water service.

He states also that there appeared to be a tacit agreement between bankers, developers and real estate agents to ensure redlining, in order to prevent the spread of Jewish and Afro-American families across streets like Texas Avenue into areas with a different ethnic composition.

[9] In 1954, voters approved a home rule charter that gave an overwhelmed St. Louis Park the status of a city.

[15][16] Due, in part, to mass immigration from former-Soviet states, St. Louis Park has a large Russian population around its Aquila area.

St. Louis Park voters elect the mayor and six (two at-large and four ward) City Council members to four-year terms.

Due to declining enrollment over the years, there have been several changes to schools in the district: St. Louis Park's athletic teams are called the Orioles.

[21] The girls' basketball teams won two state championships in 1986 and 1990 under head coach Phil Frerk.

For many years, a fixture at Park athletic events was the school dance line, the Parkettes, who served as cheerleaders for the Minnesota Vikings from 1964 to 1983.

1965 graduate Bob Stein was an All-American end at the University of Minnesota and the youngest player ever to play in a Super Bowl, for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Former Minnesota Vikings and Tennessee Titans President Jeff Diamond is a 1971 St. Louis Park graduate.