Vic Thorstenson
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Vic Thorstenson
@vthorstenson.bsky.social
East Bank, Minneapolis.
Former long-time MN legislative and state government staffer. I take pictures.
Trod carefully into our non-Newtonian parking ramp.
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Vic Thorstenson
Famously, Spooner-Hayward
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It would be funnier as "Blooner Spows" but I'm not sure how many folks up there would get the gag.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mine is ~20 years old, it's just a button on a key fob. It "learns" the code that's set on the key pad.
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If you have an old system with dumb RF clicker, it better to fix that than get a new one that uses an app.
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Oh yeah, saw those weasel words - but it still should have been before the HPC for a hearing.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Scanning the recent agendas of both the planning commission and the Mpls HPC, I don't see anything regarding this change.
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Consideration of ghost signs were written into Dinkytown's design guidelines and approved by the City Council just last year.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hey @eastbankmpls.bsky.social, this is in the Dinkytown Commercial Historic District. Did the new operators have a permit to paint over the ghost signs?
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thank you for your insight.
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Any insights on this development, Mr. Hockey Reporter?
@puckmyers.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Vic Thorstenson
One great thing about the late Minneapolis restrauteur John Rimarcik, besides coming up with the long-lived Annie's Parlour in the first place, was he left up the signage from a previous tenants of the building, Art Materials, Inc. (and maybe even Perine's books?). Pouring one out for a real one ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Every dalliance should be pronounced like Allianz. Gives it a whiff of respectability.
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM