Driving (or walking) along Nicollet Avenue (before it was the Mall) on Thanksgiving night, noses pressed to the car windows, to see Dayton's holiday windows. Before the 8th Floor Holiday Show, Dayton's used to deck the windows for Christmas and unveil them on Thanksgiving night. A treasured
The beaver family that tried to dam the back channel down
below Tile and Marble
The muskrats that lived in the backwater between Boom Island and the
high ground
The woodchucks living under the garage that mowed down my
neighbors green pea plants
The burro (Sheba) that mowed
down my
I haven't seen this one mentioned yet by anyone adding to this thread.
Anyone besides me remember the Padded Cell on Lake at Bryant I believe. In
the early 60's you could go there to hear folk singers, drink a beer (and one
of my roommates left town with one of the musicians). Those were
At 12:38 AM 11/17/01 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the matter of the Riverview Supper Club site, I believe it
arguable that having the housing development adjacent to the new
park site will serve park visitors well. As an example (you decide
how similar) I offer up Wirth Parkway. This
We get police reports every week in our Board packet and I have never
noticed that there is much activity out at Wirth Park. Maybe at the
parking lot by the chalet where cars might be broken into for stolen
purses, etc. However, compared to the cars parked around the Chain of
Lakes that get
In a message dated 11/17/01 8:51:29 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You mean it's not going to continue to be an obvious advertisement for the
electric company? *grin*
Of course, being proud to be an employee of a TCF competitor, I may have to
boycott!
I am thrilled
I don't have a problem with the TCF Holidazzle.I didn't thinkanything could be more commercial than the Holidazzle. I was wrong. The TCF HOLIDAZZLE! Nancy Russell 12-4 - Original Message - From: Michael Libby Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
Remember two movies for the price of one at the Uptown Theater in the late
70's and early 80's? Saw many a foreign film during those years with college
comrades or dates. I saw Breaker Morant, The Lighthorsemen, and Picnic
at Hangin Rock, all great Aussie films, that way. I also remember
Big, BIG news on the Riverview Supper Club site in
today's Star Tribune by Steve Brandt:
www.startribune.com/stories/462/835909.html
Worth checking out...
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I am bothered by the exchange concerning the efficacy
of Citizen Advisory Groups and the resulting AMEN from
Council Member Elect Zimmermann. Andy Driscoll began
by writing that Citizen advisory groups are a
complete sham, no matter what they're studying. And
to this Dean added his AMEN.
I offer
I was curious if any of the Billy Graham buildings
that will be being vacated include film production and
staging areas. I know distribution of films has been
from Mpls but it wasn't clear to me how much of their
production was here.
If there are already existing film facilities in part
of the
David Stand writes:
Since the properties are currently off the tax rolls
due to nonprofit status of the Bill Graham
organization, the city will likey want to bring some
private sector businesses into these buildings or
upper end housing. This could help offset the
properties lost to the
This has got to be the strangest November I ever did see.
People are biking down the street in shorts and sandals, there's not an
ice-scraper in sight, and I was just out in my backyard - bare-footed, mind
you - and I discovered that the neighbor's lilac bushes are putting out buds!
Any
Robert Gustafson wrote:
they
do not have the knowledge of all the other components
involved in the project under study I also hope
he understands that he was elected to make decisions.
His decisions must be made on a total picture, that at
times might not agree with what a citizen
In a message dated 11/17/01 10:29:29 AM Central Standard Time,
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I don't go there very often, mostly because it's outside the areas
where I usually spend time. A couple summers ago, I took an extended
bike ride (alone) that included Wirth Park. It was a nice
Keith Reitman asked how safe would a park be at the Riverview Supper Club site?
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been involved with the Twin Cities River
Rats water ski team that has held shows at this site for the past five years or
so. We started out getting a dozen or so spectators
Remember the narrow movie theater on the East side of Hennepin just North of
8th St. that showed ONLY newsreels? I can barely recall going there with my
dad to see filmed news reports about THE WAR, shot at the front --
several months earlier. First time I saw tears in his eyes.
On rare
Great topic!
I really miss all the great CHEAP cafeterias that used to be downtown. You
actually got good fast food that you would never find anywhere else (or
maybe didn't want to). Now dining downtown is all chain fast food or
upscale. I remember a guy at the Forum Cafeteria who every morning
Moby Dick's on Hennepin with Bob Dylan lurking in the crowd.
Great Horned Owl of Nicollet Island.
The market on Hennepin Avenue in downtown that was some of the best people
watching.
The hobos that used to live in caves and make-shift wooden houses on the
river banks where the $250,000 (and
The barge that ran into Nicollet Island early one spring and was hung up
there for a few days.
"Fredric H. Markus" wrote:
The
beaver family that tried to dam the back channel down below Tile and Marble
The
muskrats that lived in the backwater betweenBoomIsland
and the high ground
The
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/835718.html
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Come to think of it, do you remember when the standard movie fare included
one (or more) cartoons and a recent newsreel before the main feature -- and
no previews?
My all time favorite cartoon was Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
doing Wagner's Rite of the Valkyrie (sp?)
Doc Whitting's (sp?) office in the pilot house of the Showboat theater
Best Steak House at Oak and Washington
Coffman Union before the disastrous 1970's remodeling
The old theater scene shop behind the Armory at the U
Sammy D's (run by Mama D) in Dinkytown
Naked day at the old Electric Fetus on
Keith Reitman writes:
I invited polite rebuttal of my remarks below and got none. Most all I have
read regarding this issue on the List is the equivalent of flag waving to
me.
So I ask, please tell me how I err in my posting below?
I sez:
The error is not in the arguments, but in the
The old two-story wooden Lynnhurst Park Building that was located on the
north side of W. 50th Street across from where it is today. It was painted
that ever-popular light green as I recall and I think it was where the
kiddie pool is now. That was before they built the new one that's attached
I've been following the thread on the use of computers in the schools,
and I want to pass on some information from the technology department of
the MPS about computers in the schools.
First, though, I want to address the concerns raised about the
district's finances, particularly Heather's
When I started thinking about the great restaurants and clubs that used to be
in Minneapolis, I was struck by the fact that they were all men's names:
Charlie's, Harry's, Freddy's, Big Al's (saw Cab Calloway there.) Oh yes,
there was the Mar Key club that wasn't a man's name.
Jan Del
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