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Minnesota ephemerist. History, music, visual arts, a bit of baseball. Work = PR. Posts = else. Also the westerly half of Trademark Issues 🎸

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July 10, 1932: Potential band names in abundance. (Minneapolis Tribune)

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July 8, 1979: 45 years ago tonight, Twin Citians had their choice of Kansas at Met Center or Devo at the Guthrie. From that day’s Minneapolis Tribune, a grouping of ads for those shows and a bunch of others later that summer.

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July 8, 1928: “The Changing Skyline” A two-page roundup of architect’s images of Minneapolis buildings then under construction or about to be. (Tribune)

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It wasn’t the rogue Surdyk’s opening, was it? If so we may require an asterisk.

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Furthermore, I’d likely have been thrown out for arguing this strike call, probably ruining the vibe that led to the walk-off three pitches later.

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I’d have walked Bregman in the 8th and pinch-hit Jeffers for Vázquez in the 9th, which is why, among at least a few other reasons, I don’t manage baseball teams. #roccowasright

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Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroen 2cv AZU Grandin*, (marque de la famille du chanteur Franck Alamo) & équipée des vitres grandes dimensions 'glaçauto', magasin TV service Philippe

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(5) … and few years later, leading me to yet another TIL that Keith Richards’ riff on “Satisfaction” was recorded as a guide track for horns and not originally meant for the record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro...

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July 7, 1937: A personal favorite from the archives. Telephone booths at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Uncredited photographer via Minnesota Historical Society

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(6) Let’s hear that unintended “Satisfaction” riff story from Keith, from a 2020 piece in Guitar World in which he breaks down 10 of his riffs.

“It’s an obvious horn riff.”

www.guitarworld.com/features/kei...

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(5) … and few years later, leading me to yet another TIL that Keith Richards’ riff on “Satisfaction” was recorded as a guide track for horns and not originally meant for the record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro...

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I’ll never get over how cool fireflies are.

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When you didn't pay the book designer enough

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Make a band more vegetable: Bean-Stage Fanclub

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July 6, 1937: “IT'S TRUE! Laid flat, one upon another, the copies in the July issue of the Minneapolis Telephone Directory would make a stack 3 miles high.” (Minneapolis Star)

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(2) I noticed that the card cabinet bears the nameplate of The General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio. Last year I found one of my favorite trade catalog illustrations in one of theirs from 1916.

Image: Trade catalog for Allsteel filing equipment via @archive.org; archive.org/details/GfAl...

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(2) I noticed that the card cabinet bears the nameplate of The General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio. Last year I found one of my favorite trade catalog illustrations in one of theirs from 1916.

Image: Trade catalog for Allsteel filing equipment via @archive.org; archive.org/details/GfAl...

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“Stuck in My Rain” was Ten Years After’s shelved psychedelia project.

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July 5, 1893: Want ad section headers, Minneapolis Times

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Why doesn’t “resurface” apply to things returning to the surface from above?

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it should resurface, is what you’re saying

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To my list of words that seem unusually well-suited to the thing they name, I add rhubarb.

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Reminder that if you have trouble sleeping & you love baseball, there's Sleep Baseball! Fake but meticulously plotted and funny small-town ball games narrated by a calm-voiced announcer and with very silly ads, with a crackly old AM radio sound

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For #ThingThursday, from my collection of midcentury drinking glasses commemorating obscure occasions:

A glass from the 43rd Annual Convention of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, Oct. 1-5, 1961, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Seen here containing root beer for legibility.

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Last night while coming home I saw the most beautiful view of the St. Paul skyline I've ever seen. Thankfully I was able to pull off on Point Douglas Road before the light faded.

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Hey dogs, you want to hear the good news or the bad news first?

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Rare shot of Iggy Pop crowdsurfing at First Avenue aka the Minneapolis Greyhound Bus Terminal

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I really want the 1:30 pm, first-of-four-bands opening set by Rush at the Minnesota State Fair’s Youth Expo ‘74 to share this limelight because I’ve seen at least one Facebook report that they performed before 8 people. But they can’t come close to that differential.

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July 4, 1947: A throng of Minneapolis bus depot passengers unknowingly foreshadow the space’s First Avenue Mainroom phase. (Minneapolis Tribune)

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Feb. 12, 1869: “It will be a strange sight to see these two wheeled machines kiting around our city.” The Minneapolis Tribune reacts to what it reports as the city’s first bicycle.

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