Ask a silly question . . .
Big Eek of Southeast Minneapolis: “I had a friend who was a baseball lifer, from the time — as a 10-year-old in the late ’30s — he first watched Ted Williams play for the Millers at old Nicollet Park.
Continue reading “Once a baseball man, always a baseball man?”A good Monday morning to you, as we continue to time-travel backward, into the sometimes-underdocumented past.
Contributor: Bill Farley of St. Paul
Date of picture: 1946 (?)
Date of contribution: July 10, 2003
Caption: “I thought you would be interested in this picture of a jeep I made, starting in late 1945 and finished in mid-1946.
Continue reading “The little treasures (Volume 31)”More photos and captions saved for (in some cases) only God knows how many years. Better late than never?
Contributor: Unknown
Date of picture: ca. 1937
Continue reading “The little treasures (Volume 30)”The Golden Age of TV Sitcoms
Zoo Lou of St. Paul: “Subject: The Evolution of Lumpy Rutherford.
“They say you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Unless, that is, you’re Clarence ‘Lumpy’ Rutherford, one of the main characters on the popular sitcom ‘Leave It To Beaver,’ which ran from 1957 to 1963.
Continue reading ““Beaver” trivia: Who was the “block of granite” awarded a four-year athletic scholarship? Wally, Eddie, or “Lumpy”?”Still more, still more, still more!
Contributor: Unknown
Date of picture: Unknown
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: “Seven on a horse.
Continue reading “The little treasures (Volume 29)”
