Vic Thorstenson

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

🎶"Spider-Plant, Spider-Plant,
Does whatever a spider can't.
Can grow big, any size,
Because it can photo-synthesize.
Look Out!
Here comes the Spider-Plant..."🎶

Ad for Valentin Blatz City Brewery in an 1893 trade publication says that they are the "Manufacturer of Lager and the celebrated "wiener beer" in barrels, kegs and bottles."

The ones celebrating "Wiener Beer" the most were 9-year old boys who thought it was *hilarious*.

A beautiful homemade flan

One of the moms of the families I’ve been delivering groceries to asked today if I’d be willing to accept something from her. And she came back with this beautiful flan she’d made to say thank you for helping us. I am crying. People are too kind. This is whom our government is forcing into hiding.

The most important hospital in Minnesota isn’t Mayo, it’s HCMC. Oppressed people statewide end up as economic refugees in Minneapolis, where HCMC is the hospital of last resort. If you’ve seen “The Pitt,” HCMC is our version of that. Their people care about you when nobody else will

Engraved illuminated resolution printed on page 51 of the 1886 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition Souvenir and Illustrated Hand-Book. Text as follows: REPORT SPECIAL COMMITTEE MINNEAPOLIS BOARD OF TRADE Your committee beg leave to state briefly their conclusions based upon a careful examination of the system and a knowledge of the work that is being accomplished by the Corliss Commercial College. The course of instruction seems to be singularly complete, comprehensive sensible practical and effective under the thorough system inaugurated by Prof. C.C. Curtiss. And the fact that all worthy graduates find profitable employment awaiting them is sufficient evidence of the merit of such an instruction as the Curtiss College of Minneapolis. Your Committee feel like congratulating the City of Minneapolis on possessing so thorough and admirable an institution and recommends the adoption of the following resolutions: The Board of Trade sees in the Curtiss Commercial College an institution of high reputation, sterling merit and great usefulness to the business community of the Northwest. SECOND, that in its methods, management and results it strongly commends itself to the entire business community in which it has grown up and which it is so honorably identified. COMMITTEE: Geo. R. Pillsbury, Pres; C.C. Sturdevant, Sec., R,B Nettleton, David Blakely, William Pettit, Robert Hale, Richard Chute. James W. Harkins SGR.

"Did you email that Board of Trade draft resolution yet?"

"Email?"

Minneapolis

Ad for the West Hotel Ladies Hair Bazaar & Turkish baths. Bottom says that they are "open for gentlemen day and night except Tuesdays from 9 am to 6 pm and Fridays from 9 am to 1 pm which is reserved for Ladies."

Sonofagun, the West Hotel did brag about their bath rooms.
Bijou Opera House program, March 5, 1893. digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...

Besides, you can't beat that 1997 Geocities website of theirs.

I've used Union House in Wyoming, MN for years. Everything is American/Union made, including custom embroidery done in-house. www.unionlabel.com/jackets.html

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I really can't emphasize enough that you are a complete freak if you care about Boy Scout genitals

"The West Hotel: Where YOU have a pot to piss in!"

(kidding)

Three electric scooters revealed under the Stone Arch Bridge when the Mississippi River pool was drained to allow for bridge inspections.

O, what a wondrous sight.

The West Hotel had the most restrooms, (seven.)

If the Minneapolis flag logo is too much for people, the city seal is crazy busy and cool in its own right. Very realistic to have miscellaneous shit littering the river bank.

Navy blue satin bomber jacket with the 4-part divided Minneapolis flag circle icon featuring a columned building, riverboat wheel, microscope & t-square/gear on the right breast, double-sailboat city logo on right sleeve, and bold block words ICE OUT MPLS on the back .

I apparently came to the wrong suburban coffee shop, so to amuse myself & horrify you, I’m unveiling my MINNEAPOLIS PATROL MOM/DAD/UNCLE/AUNT/NO KIDS FOR US THANKS jacket. Nothing will top St. Paul’s jacket, but I accepted my own challenge to incorporate Mpls’s oft-mocked flag logo in the design.

Me wearing The Jacket of Saint Paul

Hizzonah, Mayor Mamdani wearing a black Carhartt with "The City of New York" on the breast & MAYOR on the shoulder

2026: The Year We All Get Really Into Municipal Pride Jackets

The taller Pioneer Building was built in 1889, and I recall the boast that it was the tallest building between Chicago and Seattle.

Ok, add "En Avant."

That M, the color, outline and black background is the new city flag as far as I'm concerned.

MPLS M MILLERS

For our Minneapolis siblings seeking a comparably sick design for their version of The Jackets, I suggest raiding some Minneapolis Millers looks as part of your vision board

Lolololol.

Posting of the entry to the Lumber Exchange Building.

I think it was me, but I said it here too. Still had a Twitter account in those days.

Ebbets Fields Flannels sold them, but apparently not anymore? This one is an eBay listing, size 3XL - about 3 X's too many for me.

Police Break Up a Noisy Party Near Dinkytown. Image from Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/MplsComPhotos/id/3123/rec/2

Civic-mindedness behind every kegger.

Punching cows is totally bitchin'.

It just isn't St. Paddy's in Dinkytown without a good ol' fashioned lawn-peein' contest.

In case you need additional evidence that St. Patrick's Day is a Saint Paul holiday.