In my opinion for quantity, price and taste…
The great Timothy Kerr of late-night funny commercial fame including this Chef Cafe classic. Watch him chowing down the chicken wings while his double continues the pitch. It’s unlikely fuzzy UHF Channel 23 never would ever have made it without Timothy D. Kerr’s ad dollar. KTMA made it into the digital age, but the [...]
The Snelling Cafe Then and Now
Sixty some years ago Madelon’s Ice Cream Shop served up mighty cones for the Midway. This little store front has seen all sorts of business over the years and is currently home to an Ethiopian hole in the wall called the Snelling Cafe. As far as I know nobody has ever had a bad meal there. [...]
A Plunge into the Provincial
Another plunge into the wild world of local public television in the late 1970′s. Further evidence that the more things change the more they stay the same. The top half of this image belongs to William Burleson‘s amazing photostream of old, provincial, downtown Minneapolis that I found via Paul Merrill’s Stuff About Minneapolis Tumblr
The Sounds of Summer in December
I spent some of this morning listening to the rain drops on the front porch and thinking it sounded like summer out there. Nothing like a little December rain to remind a guy that it’s going to be Christmas time in Minneapolis clear through May. I came across this picture from the 1920′s just before [...]
NNB at the M-80 Music Festival
The great Minneapolis punk band performs “Here Comes a Creep” at the M-80 music festival in September 1979. The festival was held at the Walker and featured over 20 bands. At the time, the members of NNB were (guitar & vocals), Dick Champ (guitar), Jim Tollefsrud (drums & additional vocals), and Chuck Hulquist (bass [...]
