Behind the Victory Flagpole — The Rad Trackers
Back in 1943 when I was going to Henry High School, there were many fine sports teams and exceptional athletes in every sport. The one I’m talking …
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Articles pertaining to historical information to the Camden neighborhoods.
Behind the Victory Flagpole — the history of Loring School
This article was written by guest writer Jodie Walters Loring Community School is currently a Pre-K through 5th grade elementary school located …
Behind the Victory Flagpole, Around the neighborhood – school daze
Below are more musings from our friend Bill Jackman. Hello again — It’s me, Bill Jackman, doing what | like to do best and that is to …
Behind the Victory Flagpole–Camden’s alphabet streets
At one time the streets of Minneapolis had entirely different names. This all changed in 1873 subsequent to the union of St. Anthony and Minneapolis. It …
Behind the Victory Flagpole – Around the neighborhood recycling
Written by Barbara Meyer Bistodeau Once again I feel driven to relate some of the written memories of my friend, Bill Jackman. His thoughts are so close …
Behind the Victory Flagpole – A Christmas letter, 2010
Bill Jackman was the sketch artist for my Flagpole column for many years. With his talent he had no problem making his own personal Christmas …
Behind the Victory Flagpole – Superstitions here and there
The whole world has their own particular superstitions, as well as we do with our rabbit’s foot, walking under a ladder, or a black cat crossing our …
Behind the Victory Flagpole – Rainy day blues at the circus
“Rain, rain go away – come again some other day” That is what a young man was wishing when he had an unusual experience back in 1916 when he was a …
Behind the Victory Flagpole — The native people say goodbye
A long time ago there were many tribes of indigenous peoples living around Minneapolis – some at Lake Harriet, some around Lake Calhoun and some …
Behind the Victory Flag pole — Around the neighborhood
Bill Jackman, who used to live at 4110 Queen Avenue N., has been gone several years now. One of his favorite things was to notice what was going on …