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Gary Hornseth
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Minnesota ephemerist. History, music, visual arts, a bit of baseball. Work = PR. Posts = else. Also the westerly half of Trademark Issues 🎸
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For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.
six pairings of words or passages the songwriter drew directly from the magazine article
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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(2) More push-pull plate images, credits as above.
Plates reading push and pull Plates reading push and pull with cross-hatch patterns Handles reading push and pull
October 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Ohiowa, Nebraska - Wikipedia
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October 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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(2) An Armstrong factory image from the same catalog, credits as above.
A factory scene showing workers operating a large linoleum press. The workers are seen on three different floors as what looks a single sheet of linoleum, with a tan and reddish-brown checkerboard pattern, threads its way through the press. “This giant rotary press at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, produces Armstrong's Straight Line Inlaid Linoleum. Standing three stories high, it is so controlled and synchronized that it operates with the precision of a fine instrument.”
September 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I’d be for this.
September 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Baked-down
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Even The Tubers
September 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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A few years ago, @garyhornseth.bsky.social and I wrote an entire researched local-history article about the Minneapolis phone book that Robert Redford pulls off the shelf at the Washington Post in that scene from "All the President's Men"
Hennepin History magazine Dialing Dahlberg: A Minneapolis phone book's moment of Hollywood Fame tl;dr the movie production team went to great lengths to use the correct prop, but due to the unusual publication schedule of the annual phone book, they got or mocked up the wrong edition, not the one the real Woodward would have pulled off the shelf, if he hadn't just called Directory Assistance as in the book.
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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garyhornseth.bsky.social Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · Dec 28
Metro 500 Service Station
600 14th St. E
Minneapolis

Undated, but some quick searching suggests 55¢ cigs and 60¢ oil would put it at about 1978.

Image: Elliott Park Neighborhood, Inc. Records, Hennepin Co. Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
Sunny, daytime of view of a blocky service station painted white with vivid yellow trim and METRO “500” in large black letters along the top of the building. Two gas pumps, labeled Regular and Premium. Two strings of small multicolored pennant-style flags fly, tied to an overhead light post. Signs in the display window tout washer fluid for 99 cents, cigarettes for 55 cents, and oil for 60 cents. Several stacks of oil cans and antifreeze are displayed in the windows.
September 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM