A KSTP QSL
Back in the old days, you could listen to the AM radio band at night and hear stations from all over the country. If you sent the station a letter telling them where you heard them, what time and what they were playing, they would send you a souvenir QSL card, usually signed by [...]
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 [...]
St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center
Regions hospital was established in 1873 by the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners as City and County Hospital. It later became Ancker Hospital in 1923, named after its superintendent Dr. Arthur Ancker. In 1965 the entire facility transferred to this 16 million dollar ultra-modern complex on Jackson Street and University Avenue and became St. Paul-Ramsey [...]
The Capital Bar
Three politicians walk into the Capital Bar, and each orders a beer. They raise their glasses and make a toast: “Here’s to 59!” After downing their beers, they order another round and make the same toast: “Here’s to 59!” This happens again and again. Finally, the bartender asks the politicians what the significance of the [...]
Shopping and Dining: On’s Thai Kitchen and Ax Man
There are many great restaurants on University Avenue in St. Paul that are no doubt being strained by the construction of the Central Corridor light rail. So recently when I had a day off of work and met a St. Paulite friend for lunch, we wandered on our bikes down to University Ave to randomly [...]
