More from our nearly inexhaustible supply of pictures and captions (if any) that never found space in the newspaper, back in the day:
Contributor: Mrs. James Holcomb of Marine on St. Croix
Date of picture: 1950
Date of contribution: Unknown
Caption: “Surviving the summer heat in 1950:
Continue reading “The little treasures (Volume 22)”More pictures and captions unpublished in the days of yore.
Contributor: Joan Gallagher of Inver Grove Heights
Date of picture: Unknown
Continue reading “The little treasures (Volume 21)”Now & Then
Or: Gee, our old La Salle ran great?
From Triple-the-Fun of Lakeville: “Last fall, my family took a stroll down memory lane when we went to visit my mom’s childhood home (which was a log cabin in the woods of northwestern Wisconsin). Mom has been gone for a few years, but her younger brother, my uncle, is alive and well, so he went along on our visit. He told us so many stories about growing up, many of which we’d heard before, but there were some unfamiliar ones, too. One in particular was rather stunning, so I thought it might be of interest to other BB’ers.
Continue reading “Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf?”Know thyself!
Just before Christmas, we heard from GramB of Nisswa: “I learned something about myself yesterday.
Continue reading “Do some of the Christmas classics make you sad? This year only, or every year?”Gee, our old La Salle ran great!
Or: The highfalutin pleasures (Pandemic Division)
Friendly Bob of Fridley: “Subject: A COVID Christmas (responsorial).
“The submission from Hindsight, which included the story of the young girl who had ‘learned’ from her schoolmates that a certain fellow did not actually exist, reminded me of the classic Cedric Adams bit ‘Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus’ from the 1950s.
Continue reading “Cedric Adams, Bill Diehl, Charlie Boone, Roger Erickson, Clellan Card: They don’t make ’em like that crew anymore!”
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