Vince Mpls

In all the kerfuffle around Hasan Piker's appearance with @omarfatehmn.com today, what I really need to know is: how is @potatoofreason.bsky.social handling all this new found fame?

In honor of this event, Minneapolis is hosting some classic Seattle weather rn

#OnThisDay Oct 26 1958: Construction starts on the "New Terminal" at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, today's Terminal 1. Designed to handle 4 Million passengers annually by 1975, the boom in commercial air travel meant it was already serving more than that by 1967.

#OnThisDay Oct 26 1960: Washington Senators team owner Calvin Griffith announces that the baseball franchise is relocating to Minneapolis–Saint Paul and become the Minnesota Twins @twinsbaseball.bsky.social for the 1961 season.

#OnThisDay Oct 26 1950: Mayo Clinic researchers Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench, along with Polish-Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein at the University of Basel, are awarded the @nobelprize.org for their work on isolating cortisone.

Cold and rainy day to be up on RBC Gateway Tower washing windows.

#OnThisDay Oct 26 1864: Upon completion of the first telegraph line to Seattle, accompanied by celebratory cannon fire and flag raising, the first telegram is sent to Abraham Lincoln. The message takes 5 days to reach Washington DC.

East River Parkway

Did a bit of "urbex lite crime" today. Behold the abandoned Electric Short Line Railway over Bassett Creek. If the trains were still running, next stop would be @utepilsbrewing.com

This year's Halloween theme in Edina: Inflatable Maxxing

Chuck's compelling storytelling just isn't complete without the cover.

This is good advice for the back side of the ballot

A lite sprinkle underway

#OnThisDay Oct 23 1937: The brakeman and conductor examine damage to the locomotive of the "Rock Island Rocket" upon arrival at Minneapolis Station, after it had struck a school bus near Mason City, Iowa. The train was and hour an 15 minutes late due to the incident.

I'm so over the "this should be getting more attention" and "you need to pay more attention to this" posts. I assure you my attention and cortisol levels are maxed out rn, have no more to give.

Ok why are we awoooing at 9:27am on a clear Friday

#OnThisDay Oct 23, 1882: Engineers on the Northern Pacific Railroad test the weight limits of the newly finished High Bridge over the Missouri River, Bismarck, North Dakota. The transcontinental route from Duluth to Tacoma would be complete a year later.

Experiencing a lunch classic. Wagner's Drive-In, Highway 81, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Bus dog

The Duluth program is so great. They have active partnerships with a neighborhood auto shop, laundromat, and barber shop so that Safe Bay guests have access to those services. The data are pretty amazing:

View of Saint Paul that Italian explorer Giacomo Beltrami saw as a passenger on the first steamboat to travel up the Mississippi River from St Louis in 1823.

#OnThisDay Oct 21 1926: Frank Lloyd Wright and companion Olga Milanoff are arrested at a Lake Minnetonka cottage on charges of adultery. They had fled Wisconsin to escape his messy divorce and her estranged husband. Wright spent a few days in jail before being released, charges were later dropped.

DEEP DIVE is up! How the Star Tribune turned Republican “Somali gangs” rhetoric into an election-year crime narrative—and helped give demands for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement the authority of news.

The most dangerous places in the Twin Cities are where bikes/peds and cars interact. Given how big vehicles have become, striped bike lanes on roads are no longer acceptable infrastructure, anywhere. But even raised, protected, and well-used lanes can't protect you from this madness:

Ashmore Flats (built 1895), 325 6th Ave Southeast in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis.

Pedestrianizing Nicollet Mall is a good idea, but the way City leaders think about this space is deeply flawed. The bad design of 2015 which treats it as a "walled garden" for corporate events needs to be rethought. And restaurants who turn their back on the streetscape like this should be illegal.

#OnThisDay Oct 20 1939: Milwaukee Road Station in downtown Minneapolis gets a major remodel, with new furnishings "reminiscent of a baronial manor." Mr. Gilmer, station announcer, bids farewell to the old wooden waiting benches originally installed in 1899.

#OnThisDay Oct 20 1995: The movie Mallrats is released. Written and directed by Kevin Smith, filming took place at Eden Prairie Center because the mall was undergoing renovations, giving the crew vacant wings to work in. The movie flops at the box office but later develops a cult following.

It sure is

Lunch al fresco in South Minneapolis, when the mid October sun makes any time of day look like the golden hour.

Good morning over the Mississippi

A glaring example of a @mprnews.org reporter cutting and pasting a press release then presenting it as news. I thought this lazy tactic was limited to the corporate stooges at the Star Tribune, but I see its broken containment.

While biking through Harrison today, tracking the old Bassett Creek tunnel (1908) and the former Electric Short Line Railroad (1916), I ran into the fun people at Misfit Coffee putting up a mural. This is an interesting and growing part of the city I haven't seen in awhile.

The iconic deer's head entrance to the huge Deere & Webber farm machinery distribution warehouse in the Minneapolis North Loop, built 1902.

#OnThisDay Oct 18 1932: Farmer's Union "Elevator M", a first generation wood structure built in 1901, is destroyed by fire. It had already been replaced in 1930 by the huge concrete structure next to it, which you can still see today behind the McDonald's at 41st Street and Hiawatha Ave.

114,131 🏠is MN’s Housing demand Solve it? 114,141 🏠MN Households lack affordable/ available homes & 64,890 🏠 lack in TC metro Yet…a 4-year Delay? For 4-story apartments, which replace 3-story apts? Going forward, StP has 3-story limit near the Mississippi River ✅We need faster 🏠approvals

#OnThisDay Oct 18 1881: The University of Minnesota's School of Agriculture opens with 47 students. Today the St Paul campus plays a vital role in global food security and serves as a key pipeline for veterinarians, agronomists, soil scientists, and food-safety experts.

#OnThisDay Oct 17 1934: Vigilantes break into the Minneapolis Worker's Bookstore at No. 6 N 3rd Street, ransack the premises, destroy political pamphlets, and steal petty cash. Books are taken from the store out to Wayzata Boulevard and burned as a "first warning to communists."

#OnThisDay Oct 16 1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to a crowd of over 10,000 at Centennial Plaza in downtown Minneapolis, highlighting his commitment to farmers, human welfare, and the pursuit of a just and lasting global peace.

Wow Bsky has been glitchy lately. It's not so noticeable if you're replying to or reposting other people's stuff, but if you aspire to be an actual content creator here this site is unnecessarily difficult to use.