My Old Matchbook Collection
I probably started smoking when I was about thirteen or fourteen. I didn’t look like I was any older than I was, but for some reason the guys at the gas station never asked me if I was old enough too smoke. Those were simpler times. I didn’t want my parents to know I [...]
Harold E. Stassen brought to you by Longines
HAROLD E. STASSEN Brought to you by Longines, World’s Most Honored Watch Minnesota’s 25th Governor, Harold Stassen was born in Dakota County on April 13, 1907. He graduated from St. Paul’s Humboldt High School at the age of 14 and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929. Stassen was elected [...]
Selby and Avon Then and Now
Another hot rod hearse, all geared up and ready for the annual Undertakers Campground Get Away at the Bemidji, KOA.
The 1st Annual Minnesota Scriptworks Film Festival
Intrepid reporter Craig McNamara hits the downtown Minneapolis streets to cover the buzz surrounding the upcoming Minnesota Scriptworks First Annual Film Festival in 1988. I’m not sure if there was a Second Annual Minnesota Scriptworks Film Festival.
Mount Zion on Summit Then and Now
The Mount Zion temple on Saint Paul’s Summit Avenue is one of the last projects designed by internationally renowned modernist, Bauhaus architect Erich Mendelsohn. In synagogues and community centers throughout the United States Mandelsohn’s resolution of the sacred and the social community needs, served as the paradigm for the postwar suburban synagogue. Mendelsohn died [...]
