34th and the Parkway Then and Now
I took this picture with my feet firmly planted in the Keewaydin Neighborhood side of 34th Avenue South. It looks like the original photo was taken from the Minnehaha side of the street, but I try and stay out of that neighborhood. Keewaydin is located on the south side of the city, from Minnehaha Parkway [...]
University Avenue Green Stamps Then and Now
Green Stamps were used as retail trading stamps from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry and Hutchinson company. During the 1960s, the rewards catalog printed by the company was the largest publication in the United States and the company issued three times [...]
The Lovers.
Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the [...]
Unideli at United Noodle
In college I used to live near United Noodle, a Cub Foods-sized Asian grocer on Minnehaha and 24th. Often I was the only white person in the store and it amused me the Asian owners spoke Spanish with the staff. I realize how ethnocentric and even egocentric saying something like that is. But [...]
A Miniature Princess Minnehaha Blanket
<a href=”http://nokohaha.com/2012/05/07/a-miniature-princess-minnehaha-blanket/minnehaha/” rel=”attachment wp-att-22227″><img title=”Minnehaha” alt=”” src=”http://nokohaha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Minnehaha.jpg” width=”640″ height=”435″ /></a> The practice of inserting premiums in tobacco products took off in about 1870 and continued into the well into the 1900′s. They were packed in or on packages of cigarettes. Tobacco flannels, often known as “cigar flannels” or “cigar felts” were one of the more [...]
