Bulletin Board

The little treasures (Volume 18)

A few glimpses of the century past:

Contributor: Joan Gallagher of Inver Grove Heights

Date of picture: September 1937

Date of contribution: June 25, 2006

Caption: “Ever since I’ve been seeing pictures of kids with goats, I was thinking about sending in a picture of me, along with my sister Audrey and my two brothers, David and Paul, in a Tom Thumb wedding at Hazel Park playground in September 1937. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the picture of another Tom Thumb wedding in the Sunday morning Bulletin Board.

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Twenty-five years ago, at 4 in the morning, they were shouting out their simple pleasures! Those were the days . . .

The simple pleasures (revisited)
Or: What this country has been needing (Pandemic Division)

Email from Amanda Olson: “Hello.

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The little treasures (Volume 17)

Happy (albeit not exactly spring-like) Easter, everyone.

Easter bunny

Contributor: Betty

Date of picture: 1951

Date of contribution: Unknown

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At long last, Grandma K starts to get the respect she deserved!

Then & Now
Gee, Our Old La Salle Ran Great Division

DebK of Rosemount: “While Taxman and I mourn the loss of ‘public worship’ and the closing of our libraries, we count ourselves fortunate in the present crisis. We are, after all, people who prefer to keep to home, as Grandma Bobzien would say. Moreover, the movement of our lives is choreographed by forces that don’t participate in panic.

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