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Vince Mpls
@vincempls.bsky.social
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Minneapolis urbanist, St Paul enthusiast, transit nerd, fan of the #localangle, called "an amateur historian" by Fox News. 🏳️‍🌈📍Twin Cities, Mni Sóta
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 4d
#OnThisDay Oct 9, 1949: The Leif Erikson statue is dedicated on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol on "Leif Erikson Day." The monument was part of a Scandinavian American campaign to credit their ancestors - and definitely not Christopher Columbus - with the “discovery” of North America.
A 13' high bronze statue of a viking holding a sword stands atop a tall marble plinth. The white dome of the Minnesota State Capitol is in the background.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2h
a woman is making a funny face and looking at the camera .
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2h
Congratulations! 🎉
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2h
The same interactions happen on Twitter, but with the addition of racial and homophobic slurs.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 13h
I'm not sure about the "molded fruit salad" or "chicken in aspic" but the beef tenderloin looks good.
Color photo of chicken in aspic, in a clear molded tower with cauliflower, carrot and asparagus on a bed of lettice atop red and white china. Naturally with a glass of white wine.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 13h
#OnThisDay Oct 13, 1948: New luncheon menu at Young-Quinlan department store in downtown Minneapolis. The Renaissance-revival building was opened in 1926 by Elizabeth Quinlan, pioneer of women's ready-to-wear, when Nicollet Avenue was the finest shopping street between Chicago and San Francisco.
Menu for October 13, 1948. Soups and Appetizers, Sandwiches, Luncheon including roast leg of lamb for 95cents. The Guest Luncheon is in a featured box: Deviled Crabmeat, Salad, Roll, and Russian Mint Ice Cream for one dollar twenty-five cents. 5 story facade of the department store with banners and flags at the corner of Nicollet and 9th, 1948.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17h
Is it named for THE cromwell or A cromwell 🤔
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 18h
#OnThisDay Oct 13, 1990: Target Center, the multi-purpose home to the NBA Minnesota Timberwolves and four-time WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx, opens in downtown Minneapolis. The first official sporting event was the Timberwolves' home opener on November 2, 1990.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2d
smile lot on the bus
a man wearing a blue shirt with a purple design on it is standing in a room
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2d
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2d
According to certain loud and very well paid voices in our media landscape, Minneapolis is a very dangerous hellscape and no one wants to go here. This is what we locals have to endure in the early evening:
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2d
Another reminder we once lived in simpler times 😢
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#OnThisDay Oct 11, 1936: Over 100 Midwest Buick dealers board a special train at Milwaukee Road Depot in Minneapolis to attend a pre-showing of the new 1937 line of automobiles in Flint, Michigan. The recreation car honors the University of Minnesota football team, then national champions.
a large group of men in suits and hats kneel on the platform in front of a Milwaukee Road railway car with "MINNESOTA BUICK SPECIAL from the home of THE GOLDEN GOPHERS with NATIONAL CHAMPIONS" Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Sofia Isella's tour bus arrives at the Varsity Theater in Dinkytown @dinkytown.bsky.social @eastbankmpls.bsky.social
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
#OnThisDay Oct 11, 2011: The Minnesota Lynx win their first WNBA Championship, beating the Atlanta Dream in 3 games. It's also the first championship won by a professional sports team in Minnesota since 1991.
Maya Moore and Taj McWilliams-Franklin riding in an convertable being showed with confetti in the Minnesota Lynx 2011 WNBA championship parade in Minneapolis Oct 11 2011 Wikimedia commons, author Bradley P Johnson
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
“Leadership appreciates your service” 🙄
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#OnThisDay Oct 10, 1887: President Grover Cleveland arrives at St Paul Union Depot by special train on his "Goodwill Tour" of the Midwest and South, travelling farther west than he had ever traveled before. The next day the President and First Lady dined at the mayor's mansion at 315 Summit Avenue.
the engraved cover of Harper's Weekly Magazine, "the journal of civilization", detailing the president's trip which began on Oct 8, 1887. Pictured is the Cleveland with his wife reading in their private pullman railroad car. St. Paul Mayor Robert A. Smith and his wife, Mary, hosted a luncheon for the President First Lady at their the mansion located at 312 Summit Avenue during their visit to St. Paul. Their home was built by Henry Neill Paul and David Stuart in 1857 and was one of the first six houses built on Summit Avenue and the only remaining of those six.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
I'd never ask a nonwhite person where they're from in that MN way that seems curious, and may be, but just comes off racist to the recipient. And I have definitely answered the question with "poor peasant trash expelled from Norway" before.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
I'm sorta ok with this because there needs to be an interesting developed core that multi family can be built around, tho yes it doesn't need to be bougey. Chicken-egg problem I guess.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
By about 500 years.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
And not just John. The former president of planned parenthood was a loud part of that scheme, along with others.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 3d
I've been to the museum in Alexandria where the runestone is on display, along with a confusing array of taxidermy and a mildly racist Native American diorama
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 4d
#OnThisDay Oct 10, 2017: The Lasher-Newel House, a castle-like stone mansion on Cathedral Hill and one of the oldest homes in St Paul, is left in ruins after a massive fire. Restoration work began in 2018 and is not yet complete.
Undated black and white photo of the mansion with its prominent castle like tower at 251 Dayton Avenue, across from ST Paul Cathedral. 3 firefighters stand in front of the stone facade. 3 more are in an aerial ladder pouring water on the burning roof. Trevor Squire, St Paul Pioneer Press Scaffolding on the stone tower, with St Paul Cathedral in the background. Langer Construction facebook page.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 4d
I see we're going to need a bigger plinth in St Paul.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 4d
True! Maybe it would be funnier if calculations showed he was looking towards a giant fiberglass lutefisk out that way, or something.
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