Wow! Falcon Heights had somewhere to shop?!?
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Wow! Falcon Heights had somewhere to shop?!?
A brown wooden box, 11" x 12" x 17" that says "HORSE" in white stenciled letters on the top and side.
I had no idea this was how they transported horses.
Red and white wooden circus wagon wheel.
A bronze verdigrised anter-less moose, maybe half sized, laying on a wooden pallet.
A world War I era Minnesota State Fair poster with a painting of a driver of an early gasoline tractor with spectators looking on.
A parking lot sign that says "Fox" with a depiction of a fox with it's tongue hanging out.
Get in losers, there's another Minnesota State Fair surplus auction going on. www.auctionmasters.com/auctions/det...
Cedric Adams, Columnist and Radio Commentator (1947)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Call this a controversial statement if you will, but I am not in favor of insurance companies making more money.
He's *still* there?
Facebook post from Joe Atkins, County Commissioner Happy 61st birthday, Inver Grove Heights! Did you know that if it weren't for the Miami Dolphins - and their owner Joe Robbie's dream of owning an NFL team - Inver Grove Heights might not exist today? In the early 1960s, metro planners were seriously considering combining a huge stretch of Dakota County- including Eagan, Rosemount, Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville, and Inver Grove - into a single 180-square-mile "megacity" that would have dwarfed both Minneapolis and St. Paul. The powerful chair of the Metropolitan Municipal Commission at the time was St. Paul attorney Joe Robbie, who strongly supported creating one giant city in central Dakota County. But Robbie had another dream: owning an NFL team. With help from entertainer Danny Thomas, he raised $7.5 million to purchase a franchise and moved to Florida to establish the Miami Dolphins. With Robbie focused on building pro football in South Florida instead, local citizens and elected officials moved quickly - and successfully - to create the communities we know today. So in a strange twist of history, the Miami Dolphins helped make Inver Grove Heights possible. Happy birthday, IGH!
@maplehoodunited.bsky.social, is Joe Robbie a hero or a villain in your book?
"How hard..."
This is the stupidest food article I've ever read. Should have been titled "See hard hard you can push the cooks buttons before they kick your sorry ass out" Gift link: www.startribune.com/the-perfect-...
3 ICE vehicles were in a parking lot of a Columbia Heights restaurant on Central Ave this afternoon and there was a potential ICE vehicle by Pillsbury at pick up today.
A lot of politicians think it’s time to move on, but how can we move on when this isn’t even over.
Belgian Art Deco (Boom BE)
Belgian Art Deco (Boom BE)
A full page ad in color. It’s filled by a color, birds-eye view architectural rendering of the then-planned Northwestern National Life Insurance Building at 20 Washington Ave. S, Minneapolis, which opened in 1965. The building in this view is surrounded by a lot of greenery and a handful of buildings. A few figures walk around, a couple of trees bloom in pink along the sidewalk. Copy: THE LOOK OF CLASSICAL COLONNADES ...concrete brings timeless beauty to this modern office building Minneapolis embraces progress in new buildings such as the home of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, to be completed in the fall of 1964. Reinforced and precast concrete, the structure will be a dramatic contribution to civic beauty. • Rows of slender precast, prestressed concrete columns with flaring capitals soar 80 feet high, and extend beyond the building to create an impressive portico. For full development of the arched colonnade effect, the columns are brilliant white, achieved with quartz and white portland cement. Additional accent is provided by dark green walls of faceted panels flanked with gray glass, • Concrete offers endless opportunity for striking departures from prosaic design in structures of every purpose. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION A national organization to improve and extend the uses of concrete THE BEST IDEAS ARE MORE EXCITING IN CONCRETE Architect: Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, Birmingham, Michigan • Structural Engineers: Worthington, Skilling, Helle & Jackson, Seattle, Washington • Owner: Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Trade advertisement
Portland Cement Association
Architectural Forum
June 1963
Image: US Modernist Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/usmo...
BLOOD ALONG THE TRACKS Murdered man lacked home- not name, friends or story Timothy Benton's death shows vulnerability of homeless by Tom Donaldson On a cold morning in early December, a Burlington Northern railroad employee spotted a body lying in the dirt near the railroad tracks on Nicollet Island. The next day, the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press each ran four- sentence articles outlining the presumed homicide of an unidentified male with no permanent address. Local television and radio stations aired similar reports. Short updates on the victim’s identity and cause of death—beating—appeared later. This was the extent of news coverage of the murder of Timothy George Benton—apt, perhaps, for a lonely death beneath a bridge on a frigid night; his was but one of 95 homeless lives lost in Minnesota last year. But the death—and life—of Timothy Benton illustrates that the homeless are more than faceless wanderers on the periphery of our lives. His case shows the homeless each have an identity, a story and a name. s? a' ' Pat Daun held a photo of her friend Timothy Benton, who was found beaten to death along railroad tracks on Nicollet Island late last year. Photo by Tom Donaldson By all accounts, Timothy Benton was a good man. Friends describe him as gentle, considerate and open-hearted with an aversion to conflict unless injustice or bigotry were in display. He went out of his way to make people feel at ease, said Pat Daun, a former roommate and close friend. Another friend, Dan “Woody” Hamilton, called him a pacifist whose greatest concern was the welfare of those with whom he shared the world; a free spirit with a wide range of talents and interests—from curling to carpentry to classic rock. He was a master air guitarist. A St. Paul native, Timothy Benton attended Cretin High School in the heady days of the late 1960s. He was a popular athlete and an accomplished artist—a painter who was twice
Continuation of long article. Benton from page 1 chosen as among the state’s “Best 100” young artists. Even as a young man, Benton strode a path unto himself. Tim Kane, an old friend who coowns Cafe Brenda, said he and “Bennie” fought many battles to “undermine the militaristic and religious authority” at Cretin. After high school, Benton drifted into the counterculture of the day. He experimented with psychedelics and eventually harder drugs. He began an on-and-off again relationship with alcohol that would last until he died. In the meantime, Benton became a skilled carpenter, traveled within the United States and out of the country, and spent time alone and with family and friends at a family cabin near Ely, Minn. In the last decade, Benton had fallen more and more out of touch with old friends like Kane and much of his large family. He took day labor and temporary jobs but only those that treated workers fairly and with respect. Even during his itinerant homelessness, friends say Benton held to his beliefs about treating the world and its inhabitants with respect. Hamilton, who spent time on the streets with him, said Benton always left a place cleaner than when he arrived. Though he drank often, Hamilton and Daun said Benton’s life was about more than partying; he remained a highly literate sports fan and a gripping storyteller. He refused handouts from friends, and, instead shared the little he had. Haun said Benton made “little things memorable;” he had a calming effect on people and situations, and a brief encounter left a lasting impression. Not even Tim Benton’s closest acquaintances know where he went when he wasn’t staying on various couches or floors in the city or at his family’s cabin. They knew he sometimes slept outside, sometimes near Nicollet or Boom islands, but were never exactly sure. Tim Benton was like that—private and independent, arriving unannounced but welcomed, then departing just as abruptly. Some friends were unaware that Bent…
An article about Timothy George Benton in the neighborhood newspaper I was editing at the time. I remembering seeing the medical examiner's van at the scene.
Replying to @maxhailperin.bsky.social
A Prince of lumber, a Chute of plat! I knew a Prince Hal once, who platted his own kingdom in Eastcheap. But a whole town? That's a legacy to make a man thirsty.
Cartoon drawing featuring a woman in bright red bloomers and a men's-style blazer and bow tie riding a bicycle in the foreground, and an old man with a pitchfork losing hat and pitchfork in surprise. Over his head are the words, "What it will come to". At the bottom it says, "Then they WILL be satisfied".
Anti-Suffragette postcard
ca. 1910s
Happy International Women's Day, bicycle friends!
1857 map entitled "Subdivision of grounds between Pine, Bay, Main and Second Streets in St. Anthony Falls." It is signed by notable persons of the day as officers for the mill companies.
The earliest mapping available online (Hennepin County Library) is from 1857, when it was platted by the mill companies and registered with the town of St. Anthony. The church existed then as a Universalist church, but I don't know if the street name existed prior to this action.
It was there, even if they realigned it a tad for that turnaround.
Prince Street goes back to 1857 when it was part of the town of Saint Anthony. It was renamed in the early 1980s to Lourdes Place after the church located on that street.
A crop of the original photo showing an oil tank looming behind the Grain Belt sign on Nicollet Island.
The massive oil tank that appears to be right behind the Grain Belt sign was actually located all the way up on Broadway NE across from Beltrami Park, where the National Guard armory is now.
"Director of Special Projects" probably.
Alt text: Prince Street SE as mapped in the 1915 Minneapolis street atlas.
RETVRN.
haha - I'm only putting it out there.
Renaming that, along with the restoration of Prince Street Southeast are my personal @eastbankmpls.bsky.social goals for the year. I can only think of one guy it would really piss off.
One minute of the Grain Belt Beer sign and a train crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis
I ordered a double sided sewn flag, it just got screwed up in production.
Not even the first time Minnesota had a flag with two different sides. The first time it was intentional, with white on one side and blue on the back.
The seller and I are going to have a little chat before that happens.
The flag has the header and mounting grommets on the wrong side of the flag.
Can you spot the little mistake with this newly purchased Minnesota flag?
Spots of light reflected onto the mural wall with a musical score that was the backdrop to some early portraits of Prince
Prince’s ghost
Upper right corner of Thursday’s Pioneer Press. The headline of the story directly below a photo of Lou Holtz and a caption pointing to his obit in Sports, begins with “Minnesota fraud gets hearing…”
Cleaning up some old papers and missed the excellent juxtaposition here.
I suspect St. Peter’s giving that Minnesota fraud quite the hearing.
