Got Plate, Need Car
Friday, November 2nd, 2007Our house was built in 1923 with an attached garage for a car. Now I've got a 1923 Minnesota license plate that could have been attached to that car.
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Our house was built in 1923 with an attached garage for a car. Now I've got a 1923 Minnesota license plate that could have been attached to that car.
Halloween In A Bungalow
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007A couple nights ago I attended (the last 30 minutes of) a Twin Cities Bungalow Club event called, "Halloween in a Bungalow" with presenter, Janelle Henry. The talk covered the history of Halloween celebrations in the United States, with a particular focus on Bungalow era.
Cracker Jack Coin
Thursday, August 30th, 2007We found money buried in our backyard! It's the secret dream of every owner of an old house to find a pile of money under the birdbath or behind a wall, but it really happened to us. Unfortunately we only found one coin. And it's only play money. But it's still buried ...
Picking Wallpaper
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Chewing your fingernails. Picking a scab. Why does anyone do these things? They don't make you look any better, in fact you usually look worse than if you had just left everything alone. I've recently discovered the house equivalent of fingernail chewing: picking old, peeling, painted wallpaper off ...
Fun With Cartography
Friday, October 27th, 2006I found a map of Minneapolis from a 1923 edition of the Gazeteer of Cities and Towns of the World on eBay recently, and I thought it would be interesting to see what our city and neighborhood looked like back when the house was new. To my disappointment, it looks like ...