As noted the other day, the Minnesota Historical Society has posted lot of old Tribunes. Let's take a look at a paid huzzah for a new downtown bank building:
"The Avenue to Minneapolis That Broadway Is to New York." There's a slogan that didn't catch on as intended. Not the date: 1921. Wikipedia says:
The current site for the building - it's residential now, of course - says it "originally opened in 1919 as the Lincoln Bank Building," but that was the year its construction was announced. So everyone's confused.
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To this day the Pence twins bring a solidity to the intersection and lower Hennepin; it's a miracle they've survived this long. For that they can thank their location.
WEB Rolling Stone on the unlikely persistence of the Space Jam website.
It's not pretty, splash page aside. Frames. Fames with borders. Man, what a nightmare of inadvertently nested content those were. Give the site a look. It's got QTVR movies and everything!
BTW, if you really want to go back to the Stone Age of web design, take a look at the page for the movie Twister.
