Wander over to SE Main Street and you'll find a store front, right next to the frame shop, and west of the Astor Cafe that sells wonderful things about old Minneapolis, which should give you ideas of what to look for in antique shops. (The SE Main store has only reproductions and history books, sorry.)
I like finding old newspaper clippings about events that happened here, like opera singers and orators and author visits. I have one or two Guthrie posters from the first few years. My son would consider theft for a Killebrew sports card. HHH for Minneapolis Mayor campaign material. 1920s U of MN postcards--anyone have a Herman the Cop picture (hint) maybe with the campus dog (hint, hint) or just the dog??? Looking through old advertising, you might discover evidence of Bud Grant's career as a male model--Al Johnson Clothiers, chiefly. Chittenden & Eastman furniture, which never, ever wears out. The Pillsbury doughboy is now a collectible, and I am really regretting taking a pass on a set of Jesse Ventura nesting dolls. The original Betty Crocker advertisting stuff, with the marcelled hair, plus the series of revised cookbooks. Old Ladies Aid cookbooks from any church, older the better. A neighborhood acquaintance has a set of real plat maps for the old St. Anthony area. They're framed and hanging on his staircase wall. Stock certificates of founded in Minneapolis businesses. Minneapolis Moline, anyone? How about Control Data? I suppose you'd have to keep your Minnesota Mining certificate in a safe deposit box--I can't think how much one original share must be worth by now. I used to collect old printed speeches from former University of Minnesota presidents. These show up in a surprising number of places--generally as packing for other stuff in a box. James J. Hill anything at all. I was browsing through a microfilm Minneapolis Journal one day and discovered a front page article in which Hill assured the reporter that he owned "Not one share of Great Northern stock." I think he bought the company shortly after that interview. It would be fun to have that one on paper and hanging on the wall with a postcard or something connecting Hill and the GN. How's that for starters? Emilie Quast SE Como _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
