Visiting juvenile court with my best friend Paul Green was an experience I will never forget. Paul had spent years as a juvenile probation officer in Ramsey County, working tirelessly with inner-city kids, many of whom were repeat offenders. His caseload was filled with young lives already caught in a.
Rochester once had several diners and drive-ins that are now part of the city’s local restaurant history. Some operated from Pullman railroad cars, while others followed the drive-in model that became popular in the 1950s. One of the best known was Melody Park Drive-In, also known as Drake’s Drive-In, located.
Human Centrifuge This is the first civilian human centrifuge in the United States. It was built at the Mayo Clinic under the direction of Dr. Earl Wood to study the effects of high gravitational (G) forces on the human body. The research began during World War II, much of it.
Today KOLM is corporately owned and operated like virtually every other radio station these days. However back in 1967 it was a quintessential example of what radio once was – Mom and Pop owned, decidedly local, and very much live. They ran a tight show considering their limited resources in.
While working at Trussbilt in Huron, SD on August 24, 2006 there was a late season significant tornado outbreak near Huron. This storm produced a half dozen tornadoes. My friend and colleague Andrew Sonnek was a big fan of storm chasing so naturally we dropped everything to pursue these tornados..
One snowy Saturday night, I was working at the Kahler Hotel when the manager called with an urgent yet thrilling task: Jim Nabors—yes, Gomer Pyle himself—was landing at the airport in an hour. My mission was clear. I was to retrieve the sleek black stretch Lincoln Town Car from the.
IBM is like no other company. The Rochester plant was so large that golf carts were used routinely in the hallways. There was an employee whose job was to post friendly notices in every entrance/exit throughout the complex (there were a lot!). In the morning it might be a reminder.
by Chris Sullivan My daughter Phoenix, fifteen years old, thinks that the USA in 2008 is the normal world. She has never seen a teacher strike a student, for example. If a teacher in her school hit a child so hard that his desk toppled over, that teacher would be.
[NOTE: Frank has a neuromuscular disorder and is wheelchair bound.] This evening I attended an introductory session to the upcoming class Creating a Life That Matters. Apparently, this has been a life-changing event for past attendees. Some changed careers, started pursuing life-long dreams, changed relationships, and even redirecting their own.
I recently took a business trip to Los Angeles with two co-workers. We were fortunate to have an extra couple of days for leisure after our work was done. They wanted to see all the normal touristy things during the day and wound up at Santa Monica Pier at the.
As a kid, the back pages of Popular Science were pure magic—full of wild contraptions and quirky inventions that promised to transform ordinary lives. And then I saw it: an ad for a giant weather balloon. Sixteen feet of pure, inflatable glory! The possibilities were endless. Would I float like.
My Room My favorite place is my room because I have everything in it. I am in the basement which use to be our family room. When it was a family room there were three doors leading into the other side of the basement. One of the doors was my.
Tony liked to stock up on microwavable food, candy and Mountain Dew – so he could stay up all night when visiting. On one overnighter he made an amazing discovery. What happens when you pick up and hang up the phone repeatedly? After a dozen or two you get a.
Carboned-up car Grandma had the second hand car that was originally that of my family – a red Pontiac Catalina which featured a good old fashioned V-8 engine that guzzled as much gas as it belched emissions out the tail pipe. Whenever she took it to Lyman’s Automotive for a.
