Mound High Then and Now
1945 Mound’s high school buildings were built in 1917 and 1938. A hexagonal pod section was added in 1964. At the top of the picture you can see the holder for the lone incandescent light bulb that used to light up this intersection originally. Later more modern incandescent lamps were mounted on horizontal extenders from poles. Modern metal poles with mercury lights came... Read More
PCC car, #322
This PCC car, #322, was built in 1946 by the St. Louis Car Company of Missouri. It was one of 140 built in three years for Twin City Rapid Transit of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In 1953, just before TCRT ended streetcar operations, the car was one of 30 sold to the operators of the City Subway in Newark, New Jersey. (The other PCCs in that Newark batch kept running until 2001!) In... Read More
The Metropolitan Building: Destroyed by Jazz
A 10-minute short film about the destruction of The Met produced by University of Minnesota graduate students in 1961. Courtesy of The University of Minnesota. Beautiful Jazz soundtrack! Read More
The Happenings On Lake Calhoun
The Happenings were a pop music group that originated in the 1960s. The group’s major hits were “See You In September” (1966), which was originally recorded by the Tempos in 1959; a cover version of the George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin song, “I Got Rhythm” (1967), updated for the nascent pop/rock era; and “Hare Krishna,” a cover version of... Read More
There were no bad acts at Sebastian’s
An evening at Sebastian’s Bar & Cafe in South Minneapolis, Dec 7th, 1977. Broadcast as a segment of ‘Wyld Rice’, a cultural television program, on KTCA Television Read More
By the Waters of Minnetonka
“By the Waters of Minnetonka” was inspired by a Sioux Love Song recorded by Thurlow Lieurance in October, 1911, on the Crow Reservation in Montana. A large number of versions and arrangements were published, and many recordings were released between 1913 and the 1950s. There are uncertainties about the exact date of composition of the piece, but the tune was... Read More
Picking up on the Litter
In 1967 there were a lot of good bands in the Twin Cities . The Underbeats, Hot Half Dozen ,Michaels Mystics, and The Del Counts to name just a few. The Litter were in a class by themselves and going to a Litter show was an occasion. The Litter were not the most polished band around, but that’s part of what made them special. They had an Attitude that no other band in town... Read More
Our Lady of Peace Then and Now