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A friend made this for me. It’s one of a kind and might be too 80s for our #AT40 gang. I’m feeling the side effects from my Covid/flu shots so it’s a day brightener with a #LocalAngle.
Me wearing a Hüsker Dü inspired t-shirt that says Hüsky Düde
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If the pendant in the middle represents their combined life it could have greater meaning and thus not cheesy.
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I was in a Minneapolis record store in the 80s when producer Jimmy Jam was looking at this album. I convinced him to buy it. So, yes most definitely.
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Yes, most definitely
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Is Anita Baker's 'Rapture' (1986) one of your all-time favorite albums?

Discover why Albumism's @markchappelle.bsky.social includes it among his favorite albums of all time + explore all of our writers' favorites here: album.ink/MChappelle25
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I guess we learned that stringed instruments were the best investment over the last decade plus. #AntiquesRoadshow
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Not a Stradivarius but a violin appraisal on #AntiquesRoadshow
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Dr. L. H. Cornell (1921)
12 15th St. E
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Dr. Cornell, a dentist in Minneapolis, holds his $7,000 Stradivarius violin, said to be the finest violin in the Northwest.
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Oooooh now that’s a price drop on that bronze. I guess the Russians aren’t a big market right now. #AntiquesRoadshow
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Alasdair appraising Chuck Close is #AntiquesRoadshow heaven to me.
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Mo-DAY-na heavy emphasis on DAY.
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My overly critical Italian friend would cringe at her pronunciation of Modena. #AntiquesRoadshow
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Now I need to read about the FLLW Benjamin Edelman house. Thank you #AntiquesRoadshow
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I wonder what’s the most volatile appraisal specialty and what has the best long term accuracy. #AntiquesRoadshow
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If it’s brown… #AntiquesRoadshow that dictum rarely fails me.
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I guess that watch wasn’t Cartier. Maybe it was Cardi B. See what I did there? #AntiquesRoadshow
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My third grade teacher taught me Native American artists were pros at graphic design. The feathers in this pot prove her right. #AntiquesRoadshow
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Tiffany at a yard sale??? It’s different than Tiffany at a mall circa 1987 #AntiquesRoadshow
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If it’s still in Minneapolis #AntiquesRoadshow appraiser Claire Givens would be the local expert.
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I wonder what this would get appraised for today on #AntiquesRoadshow
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Dr. L. H. Cornell (1921)
12 15th St. E
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Dr. Cornell, a dentist in Minneapolis, holds his $7,000 Stradivarius violin, said to be the finest violin in the Northwest.
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To bring the connection closer, my friend and his family live just a few blocks from both homes.
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Albert Woolson befriended the father of a good friend. I met this man a few times before his death. So is that one or two degrees is separation from the oldest surviving Union soldier?
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Meco Monardo co-produced Gloria Gaynor’s Never Can Say Goodbye with Jon’s uncle Tony Bongiovi and later played the trombone solo on Diana Ross’s I’m Coming Out. It’s all connected in #AT40
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TIL I wasn’t the only one to sing Secret Asian Man. A few years back I found out many thought KC was singing Keep It Common Law. #AT40
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I know some people like You Light Up My Life. This is the type of thing where it’s fine to say We Just Disagree. #AT40
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I remember Tiger Beat magazine hyping Sean and Leif and the paramedics from Emergency! and though I have the Gay gene I never had the Tiger Beat gene. #AT40