Wicker Baby Buggy Bumpers
Turn of the century baby buggies were usually made of wood or wicker and held together by expensive brass joints. They were often heavily ornamented works of art. These antique photographs of baby buggies were found some time ago in a Saint Paul basement. They were probably taken to be part of a salesman’s [...]
The way to a man’s heart is through his eyes…
John W. Thomas & Co. was a Minneapolis retailer of dry goods, women’s apparel, men’s furnishings, fine furniture, rugs and draperies, and interior decorations. The firm was begun as George W. Hale in a small building located on Washington Avenue near Nicollet. George’s brother James M. Hale joined the business in 1872, the [...]
Dine and Dance at the Air-O-Inn
Dine and Dance at the Air-O-Inn, opposite Wold Chamberlain Airport! Here’s a fine colored ink blotter with an attractive young lady. I will have cheese cake with my chicken please. What kind of dancing is “Old Time” dancing? Believe it or not, cards like this were actually used to blot ink when using a [...]
Blabbering Bob is Back
I pretty much gave up on right wing radio after Bob Davis was fired from KSTP a couple years back. Bob is back now, but he’s paired up with a washed up Republican legislator in some sort of morning zoo show. I just can’t bring myself to listen. About the same time I gave [...]
Ancher Nelsen and Rural Electrification
Ancher Nelsen was born to Danish parents in 1902 near Buffalo Lake. Nelsen attended elementary school in Brownton, Minnesota, and graduated from Brownton High School in 1923. In 1924 he began operation of his 280-acre diversified farm at Hutchinson, McLeod County. In 1929 he married Ilo Zimmerman of Brownton; they had three children. Nelson was [...]
