“I treat my house as my lab,” says St. Anthony Park resident Lucas Alm, and his Brompton Street bungalow is a visual encyclopedia of the energy-saving techniques to which Alm is professionally dedicated in his work as an architect and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.
In 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, Patty Hearst was arrested by the FBI and the Park Bugle became a nonprofit newspaper. The Great Lakes freighter is still at the bottom of the lake, Hearst is out of prison and living in Connecticut and the Bugle still lands on readers’ doorsteps each month, 35 years later.
It’s probably just as well that Joe Isaacson and Bill Marquardt underestimated what it would take to open their shiny new sports bar and eatery at 2554 Como Ave. Had they known all the work and worry that Station 280 on Como would entail, they might never have undertaken the project in the first place.
This spring’s show at the Goldstein Museum of Design examines the history of office relationships, with typewriters, gag gifts and outfits from each decade gathered to explore the role of secretaries in the 20th century.
“I treat my house as my lab,” says St. Anthony Park resident Lucas Alm, and his Brompton Street bungalow is a visual encyclopedia of the energy-saving techniques to which Alm is professionally dedicated in his work as an architect and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.
In 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, Patty Hearst was arrested by the FBI and the Park Bugle became a nonprofit newspaper. The Great Lakes freighter is still at the bottom of the lake, Hearst is out of prison and living in Connecticut and the Bugle still lands on readers’ doorsteps each month, 35 years later.
It’s probably just as well that Joe Isaacson and Bill Marquardt underestimated what it would take to open their shiny new sports bar and eatery at 2554 Como Ave. Had they known all the work and worry that Station 280 on Como would entail, they might never have undertaken the project in the first place.
