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indypendenthistory:  Agents inspecting a truck ingeniously camouflaged by liquor dealers. Los Angeles, 1926. (via Nosotros queremos cerveza!)

pbsthisdayinhistory:

May 24, 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge Opens

130 years ago today, the Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public.

The Brooklyn Bridge was the first Ken Burns documentary to be broadcast on PBS. Explore Burns’s Brooklyn Bridge timeline, which shows the progression of the Manhattan-Brooklyn Bridge, which was the premier engineering feat of its time, and puts its construction in greater historical context.

Top Photo: New York and Brooklyn Bridge: Promenade, c. 1898 (Library of Congress). Bottom Photo: Title: Panorama of New York & bridges from Brooklyn, c.1913 (Library of Congress).

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mn70s: Led Zeppelin, Met Center, Bloomington, MN, 1977 In a rare feat, rock gods John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin played both sides of the river on consecutive nights in April 1977. (Minneapolis Tribune critic Michael Anthony claimed that only one other act, the anti-Zep “Up With People,” had ever bothered to try.) Zeppelin played the Met Center on April 12, and the St. Paul Civic Center on April 13. The Met Center show got off to a rocky start when the band showed up 75 minutes late. The official explanation: the boys’ private plane was delayed by bad weather. So don’t even try to suggest that it had anything to do with illicit substances… Images via ledzeppelin.com

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mn70s: Jimi Hendrix, St. Paul, MN, 1970 Hendrix played St. Paul on May 3, 1970, but there seems to be some confusion about the venue. Nearly every reference you’ll find on the Internet says the concert took place at the St. Paul Civic Center. Just one problem: the Civic Center didn’t open until 1973. So where did he play? Most likely the St. Paul Auditorium. A review of Hendrix’s “Band of Gypsys” album in the May 1, 1970, Minnesota Daily indicates he was scheduled to appear at the Auditorium that weekend. Let the revision of Hendrix history commence! Photo via Tumblr: Jimi Hendrix

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mn70s: Midnight Weirdness at the Uptown Theater, Minneapolis, 1978 Minneapolis’s Uptown Theater introduced midnight showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on May 19, 1978. It was the beginning an impressive 18-year run. Photo via Minnesota Historical Society

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mn70s: The Shipstad Family at Valleyfair, 1978 The Twin Cities area’s newest amusement park, Valleyfair, opened in Shakopee on May 25, 1976. Its 20 original rides included the High Roller wooden roller coaster (still in operation) and the 48-horse carousel rescued from the old Excelsior Amusement Park at Lake Minnetonka (also still in operation). Photo via Flickr: shipstadfamily’s photostream

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gaksdesigns:

Tall Painting – The art of dripping paint. Artist Holton Rower

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kadamis:

lord jesus. i have found the mother of all gif sets. 

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