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Minnesota trivia
« on: January 08, 2010, 12:42:05 PM »
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So TJ and I watched Public Enemy last night starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.  I was curious about some of the facts depicted in the movie so I Wiki'd Dillinger and got a surprise that one of my boyhood hometowns, Hastings, was the setting for a notable event during the time that Dillinger was being hunted down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_dillinger

I also discovered that Hastings is a location for one of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs, the Fasbender Clinic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasbender_Clinic


Yes, lots of new useless information.   :D  And yet my friends still question how I win so many of our trivia games.  :rollin:
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Re: Minnesota trivia
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2010, 03:34:50 PM »
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is hastings also the original location of the hastings store? i love that store. :)
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Re: Minnesota trivia
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2010, 09:46:02 PM »
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So TJ and I watched Public Enemy last night starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.  I was curious about some of the facts depicted in the movie so I Wiki'd Dillinger and got a surprise that one of my boyhood hometowns, Hastings, was the setting for a notable event during the time that Dillinger was being hunted down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_dillinger

I also discovered that Hastings is a location for one of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs, the Fasbender Clinic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasbender_Clinic


Yes, lots of new useless information.   :D  And yet my friends still question how I win so many of our trivia games.  :rollin:
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Re: Minnesota trivia
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2010, 02:44:51 PM »
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Cool do you know what happened in Northfield MN?

Obama and the left don't want anyone to find out about Northfield, MN.   ;)
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Re: Minnesota trivia
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2010, 10:29:09 PM »
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Oh thats to bad considering that THE WHOLE TOWN VOTED FOR HIM!!! ;)
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Re: Minnesota trivia
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2010, 01:30:39 AM »
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By the way, the 1972 movie version of the true story starring Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall was filmed three miles from my house.   :o
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Re: Minnesota trivia
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2010, 11:51:14 AM »
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The wire was filmed three blocks from my house on one episode. I was going to work and they had a whole street blocked off. I was like whaaaa....?
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