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January 2012

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Winter WonderlandTop: Dayne Smith tries some more advanced maneuvers during his lunch break at the Wells Fargo WinterSkate in front of the Landmark Center in Rice Park in St. Paul. Smith works at Infor, a software company in Downtown.

Right: “It’s cold!” said Stacy Vang as she exag-gerates a harmless fall at the WinterSkate.

First Fridays provide unique opportunity for downtowners to meet and mingle

Mary Diedrick HansenStaff Writer

The lights were low and the conversation was flow-ing at the First Friday gathering of downtown

residents, employees and friends at Faces On Mears Park Restaurant in Cray Plaza on Dec. 2. The monthly event, sponsored by the CapitolRiver Council/District 17 (CRC), is all about bringing downtown neighbors

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Galtier Plaza resident Jim Rustad at the First Friday Social auction on Dec. 2.

John E. AhlstromStaff Writer

Kyle Walker and Greg Awada, who developed a friendship 25 years ago while students at Henry Sibley High School in West St. Paul, recently purchased the 7th Street Pizzeria at 184 W. Seventh St., and

renamed it Zamboni’s. The business is nestled between the Eagle Street Grille and Ticket King, across the street from the Xcel Center.

Walker eventually settled in Page, Arizona, where he presided over a successful kayak and tour business on Lake Powell, a man-made lake that many consider

one of the scenic treasures in America. After attending school in Boston, Awada settled in Minnesota and was drawn to the restaurant and hospitality business, an entrepreneurial pursuit that has been a part of his fam-ily since his grandfather, George Awada, purchased the Harp Bar in 1954. The

family operated Awada’s Restaurant from 1973 until it closed in 2006.

Walker returned to Min-nesota a year ago to “start the next phase of my life,” and his partnership with Awada in this new business adventure came together rather naturally.

The restaurant space

has undergone a thorough renovation. The floors have been restored to their prop-er elegance, beautiful brick walls have been exposed and, with the acquisition of a beer and wine license, a new bar has been added.

“We also added a couple of TVs,” said Awada. “Our intent was to create a pleas-

ant dining environment ac-centuated by great food and a fine selection of local beers and inexpensive wine.”

Not surprisingly, the menu contains a host of pizza options, but that is merely a starting point. Other featured items

Zamboni’s opens near Xcel Center

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together to mingle, get bet-ter acquainted, catch up on downtown news, and celebrate the end of the work week with

happy hour prices on drinks and appetizers. First Friday helps maintain the friendly, close-knit neighborhood that exists in the heart of the city.

Jim Rustad, one of the many residents in attendance, has been living in Galtier Plaza for 15 years and loves it.

“I walk to the barber, bank, doctor’s, library, Macy’s, and Park Square Theatre. The traffic is easy, and I like the mix of artists and students,” he said. “I have met more wonderful neighbors by attending First Friday events.”

Because the location changes each month, First Friday has given Ryan Jones and his finacee, Tessa Retterath, a chance to explore a variety of downtown restaurants. The two live in the Kellogg Square Apartment building. Jones walks to his job as IT Manager at the Ordway. Retterath works as the Box Office Systems Manager for the Schubert Club, whose offices are in the Landmark Center. They en-joy the nightlife of Lowertown and the downtown lifestyle of never dealing with traffic.

Retterath is starting her second term as a board mem-ber for the CRC. The structure of the Council is designed to encourage citizen participation in government affairs, maintain a citywide communication network, and serve as a point of contact for citizens on land use issues and the City planning process The mission of the Council is to maintain safe, healthy and vibrant neighborhoods downtown. Funds supporting the mission of CapitolRiver Council were being raised through a silent auction at the Dec. 2 event.

The auction had strong downtown support as evidenced by donated items, which included: tickets to the Ord-

way, Schubert Club, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Wild, Padelford Packet Boat Co., History Theatre; gift cards to the Spectacle Shoppe and Details Salon; gift baskets from Northwoods Cabin, and Bath and Body. Twin Cities Public Television donated an opportunity for four people to check out “Almanac” behind the scenes, by watching a rehearsal and broadcast of the popular TV show. Larry Englund, past board member of CRC, had a Public Art Bike Tour up for auction. The winner will be able to bring up to eight guests on a three-hour, 15-mile, 10-sculpture tour, led by En-glund, and followed by wine and cheese on a rooftop deck.

Maureen Ramirez, director of CRC. reported that the event was a success.

“We netted over $1,000 at the auction, which makes us very happy,” she said. “We estimate turnout to be between 80 and 100 people. We had great items, and a very hard-working marketing and fundraising committee including the chairs of that committee, Mark Karason and Renee Sk-oglund.”

The Jan. 6 First Friday event will have no silent auction but it will have plenty of good conversation and the chance to meet new people. It will be held at Wild Tymes Sports Bar and Grill, 33 Seventh Place W., St. Paul.

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AZ Gallery is hosting a huge art show featuring 48 artists. This exhibit is all downtown, in more ways than one. To be included, the artists had to live, work or have studio space in downtown St. Paul.

“Group shows by lo-cal artists have been done in the past, but none this large,” said Todd Peterson, the gallery’s vice president. “We tried to include every artist that qualified. We are very happy with the sub-missions.”

The gallery is located in the Northern Warehouse Artists Co-op at 308 Prince St., just down the block from Mears Park, which is lit up like a fairyland for the winter season. AZ is oper-ated by a collaboration of eight artists. This is the first such show it has hosted.

The artwork on display includes sculpture by Jesse McNally, designs by Mel Tudisco, Peterson’s use of the crayon medium, digi-tal photography, wood working and glass. The ex-hibition will be on display through Jan. 15, when it will be replaced with a Win-ter Carnival exhibit of art-work of students from local elementary schools.

Peterson formerly had a small gallery in Northeast Minneapolis but when he learned of the AZ Gal-lery artist collaborative in St. Paul, he jumped at the chance to become part of it. Lowertown is considered a leading center for the arts and has long had the larg-est concentration of work-ing artists of any city in the Midwest. It is widely acknowledged that the large and growing community adds significantly to the cultural and artistic wealth of St. Paul.

Since its inception in 1997, AZ Gallery has been dedicated to providing its artist-members with op-portunities to exhibit high-

quality, imaginative artistic creations.

“We currently have eight members bringing various artistic styles and mediums to our great space,” said Peterson. “Gallery mem-bers show their work year-round. Additionally, we invite guest artists during Spring and Fall Art Crawls, and host other juried shows throughout the year.”

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Reflections from the

RiverfrontTim Spitzack

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Same bench, same time, new musings

Editor’s note: this is the sec-ond in a 12-part series where I am spending 30 minutes in the same place along the Missis-sippi River each month to con-template life in our river town.

December 2, 201112:30 p.m.31 degrees F

Sunny, cold breeze

The scene at Harriet Is-land Regional Park to-

day is much different than last month. The leaves have all disappeared, leaving the

trees looking naked, twiggy and gnarled. Gone too are the hordes of people that walk, run or bike in the park. Today, there is virtu-ally no one around. From the parking lot I notice that the great lawn is filled with over 150 Canada geese. One lone walker on the nearby trail veers off course to get close to the gaggle. They eye him suspiciously and waddle away en masse. As I make my way to my bench, I approach the geese as well and laugh as they squeak at me and warn each other that potential danger is near. I must seem non-threatening, however, because most of the geese merely scurry away. Only a few took flight, flying about a hundred yards or so before landing on the frigid river.

The river is still flowing freely and not even a hint of ice has formed at its edges. We had the second snowfall of the season this week — less than one inch — and the ground is crusted with its icy remains. It’s the same ice that has accumulated on my front steps. The first snowfalls of the season can be hazardous because they

often melt quickly and turn to ice before the day is over. I’ve noticed that the “Min-nesota Shuffle” has once again replaced our strong, confident gaits of warmer months.

Last year we received more than 89 inches of snow in the Twin Cities, which is the fourth highest amount since record keep-ing began in 1871. Michelle Margraf, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, says to brace for more of the same this year. Predictions call for above normal pre-cipitation and below nor-mal temperatures. This jibes with the forecast in the Old Farmers’ Almanac, which warns of another cold, snowy winter.

Snow is usually welcomed by most this time of year because it enhances our hol-iday spirit. Earlier this week I visited Rice Park to see the 65-foot tall Christmas tree. I had read about how the tree trunk was inserted into a hole and then was sur-rounded by wedges of lum-ber to hold it in place. I had to see it for myself and was amazed at how snuggly the

lumber filled the hole and how securely it held the tree in place.

It’s my daughter’s birth-day today and I think of her as she passes from her teens into her twenties. She is in college at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and I find it strangely comforting that the same river I’m look-ing at flows by her adopted town. I toss a birthday wish into the river and hope it finds her happy.

To my right, I catch a glimpse of movement in the Pilot House suite of the Covington Inn, one of the few floating bed and break-fast establishments in the nation. I’m sure owner Liz Miller is thrilled to have a guest in the off-season. Last winter was challenging for her. Twice she awoke to fro-zen pipes and was forced to cancel reservations, result-ing in a loss of income dur-ing her slowest time of the year. The Pilot House is sur-rounded by windows, and I’m sure its current resident is toasty warm. There is not a cloud in the sky to filter out the bright sunshine.

On my way to the park I passed by some mainte-

nance men wrestling with a large sheet of plastic. They use the plastic to cover some of the 22 boats of the live- aboarders that stay at the St. Paul Yacht Club year-round. I wonder how those residents cope with winter living in such close quarters.

The shipping season on the Mississippi is now over. On Nov. 24, the MV Char-lie G was the last commer-cial tow to pass through Lock and Dam 2, near Hastings. The river is now much quieter. Soon more snow will fall and frigid temps will form a cake of ice on the river. It’s interest-ing to think about how each snowflake that floats down becomes part of the river, and to ponder where it will end up. Will it wash ashore in Red Wing? St. Louis? Or will it make it all the way to the Gulf of Mexico where it will cool the toes of some tourist on a beach in Mexico? I’d like to think the latter will happen, but that’s because I’m cold now. My fingers are numb, as is my bottom from sitting on this hard metal bench.

My time is up. I’m off to find a bowl of soup.

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Artists’ Quarter408 St. Peter St., St. Paul651-292-1359www.artistsquarter.com

The Artists’ Quarter of-fers live entertainment throughout the month, in-cluding jazz bands, poetry nights and the popular B-3 organ night, held at 9 p.m. every Tuesday.

Children’s Museum10 W. Seventh St., St. Paul651-225-6000www.mcm.org

“Rainforest Adventure” is presented through Jan. 8. This mulit-sensory expedi-tion introduces  visitors to tropical rainforests around the world, highlights the challenges facing these unique ecological wonders and suggests ways that peo-ple can make a difference.

“Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Fa-vorites” is featured through Feb. 5. This exhibit brings children and adults into the world of seven beloved picture books. From the gardens of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” to the urban snowscape of “The Snowy

Day” and the tropical island of “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” Storyland engages visitors in early literature adventures.

Tickets are $8.95. Explore the museum free of charge 9 a.m.-5 p.m. the third Sun-day of each month.

History Center345 W. Kellogg Blvd.St. Paul651-259-3000www.mnhs.org

“1968” is presented through Feb. 20. The year 1968 was a year of extremes: of comedy and tragedy, of love and hate, of a president stepping down and a leader being gunned down, of violence on the front lines and on the home front, of graceful athletes and pow-erful protests, and of the promise of law and order. In one single year America saw it all and the highlights of that year are featured in this exhibit.

Museum tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and college students, and $5 for children ages 6-17. The center offers free admission on Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m.

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“1968: The Year That Rocked the World” is presented Jan. 21-Feb. 19. The History Theatre brings some of the most explosive events and personalities of 1968 to the stage: the war in Vietnam, the assassina-tions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Rob-ert Kennedy, the Mexico Olympics, Lyndon B. John-son and Hubert H. Hum-phrey, the election of Rich-ard Nixon, and even the Apollo 8 mission broadcast on Christmas Eve. These events are surrounded by the unforgettable music of the era and pop culture that entertained and reflected on a world in chaos. Tick-ets are $34-$38 for adults; discounts for seniors and children.

Sample Night Live, a sampling of local produc-tions, is featured at the History Theatre at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month, except February. The format features 12 acts per night, including theater, film, dance, improv, visual

arts, folk and opera. The next performance is Jan. 4. Tickets are $20.

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Country music artist Aaron Lewis of Staind will perform a solo and acous-tic concert at 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 5. Tickets are $32.50-$55.

“A Prairie Home Com-panion” returns to The Fitzgerald Theater for a run of six winter shows. Perfor-mances are offered at 4:45 p.m., Jan. 14, 21 and 28. Join Garrison Keillor and the whole Prairie Home gang for two hours of live radio fun. Tickets are $32-$48.

Martin Sexton will per-form at 7:30 p.m., Sun., Jan. 22. Tickets are $29-$31.

Ordway Center 345 Washington St.St. Paul651-224-4222www.ordway.org

“Broadway Songbook: The Words and Music of Contemporary Broad-way” is presented Jan. 20-22. This new series features a dynamic mix of composer life stories, discussion of what made their work ex-traordinary, and perfor-mances by an ensemble of renowned artists from the Twin Cities musical theater, jazz and cabaret scenes. The performance features the songs of Billy Joel, Elton John, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Schwartz and oth-ers. Tickets are $20.

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“Ragtime The Musical” is presented Jan. 20-Feb. 19. It’s 1906 and the air is filled with syncopated new music. A WASP family liv-ing the good life, a Jewish artist bent on achieving suc-cess, and a handsome black piano man courting the woman he loves find their lives colliding against the backdrop of “the American Century.” Tickets are $38-$68.

Science Museum of Minnesota120 W. Kellogg Blvd.St. Paul651-221-9444www.smm.org

“Nature Unleashed: In-side Natural Disasters” is presented through Jan. 8. From earthquakes and vol-canoes to hurricanes and tornadoes, nature’s forces have shaped our planet. Throughout history, these catastrophic phenomena have affected people around the world. This exhibit re-veals the causes of these nat-ural disasters and explains how people cope and adapt in the aftermath, and how science is helping to better predict, respond to and pre-pare for future events.

Omnifest 2012 is pre-sented Jan. 6-Feb. 17 and features the following five films shown daily in the Omnitheater:

“Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure” - In 1914, 28 men were stranded at the bottom of the world. One courageous hero led them to safety. “Shackleton’s Ant-arctic Adventure” tells the gripping story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, who were stranded in the

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“Journey Into Amaz-ing Caves” - Omnitheater viewers will join two cou-rageous women who make their living exploring in the most unforgiving places in search of an understanding of life that exists there. On a quest to find extremeo-philes – unique microor-ganisms that thrive under extreme conditions – they venture deep into the ice caves of Greenland, the un-derwater caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the rocky caves of the Grand Canyon.

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“Wolves” - Wolves have held a nearly mythical place in the human conscious-ness for hundreds of years. Through unparalleled na-ture photography and im-pressive historical footage, this film will immerse view-ers in the lives of wolves in their natural habitat. They’ll sit in the middle of the pack as it prowls, howls, hunts, and plays, and discover the power, the vulnerability, and the spirit of these nearly

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Erbert and Gerbert’s to open in US Bank building

Erbert and Gerbert’s res-taurant is scheduled to move in to the former Tea Garden space on the skyway level of the US Bank building, next to Anderson’s Cleaners and St. Marie convenience store. The L-shape design of the store enables patrons to enter the shop from two separate entrances. There is also an Erbert and Gerbert’s at Fourth and Wabasha.

Dorothy Day Center expands

Dorothy Day Center in downtown St. Paul is ex-panding its facility to han-dle 50 more people, bring-ing total capacity to 250 per night. The center, which cares for the homeless, de-cided to expand because several nights last summer it was not able to serve all of the people seeking help. According to the U.S. Cen-sus, one out of ten people in Minnesota lives below the poverty line, which is $22,050 for a family of four and $10,380 for a single adult. The center is located at 183 Old 6th St. W.

New exhibit at Cathedral Museum

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Archbishop John Ireland and architect Emmanuel Masqueray developed plans to build the cathedral. Mas-queray also designed the Basilica of St. Mary in Min-neapolis.

Christos reopens

Christos Greek restaurant in the Union Depot has reopened. It was closed for five months during renova-tion of the building, which is being restored to a transit facility for busses, light rail transit, commuter rail, Am-trak and high speed trains. The improvements includ-ed repainting the 52-foot-high ceiling.

Master Plan open for public comment

The approval process for the proposed Great River Passage master plan is ex-pected to last through the summer, according to Don Ganje, project manager.

The plan is intended to transform the 17 miles of Mississippi riverfront in St. Paul. It was released to the public in December and is open to public comment. It will be submitted to the neighborhood district councils, the St. Paul Plan-ning Commission, Parks Commission and City Council. Plans include im-proving the Watergate Ma-rina, locating a pool on a barge, and creating a prom-enade on the West Publish-ing site.

Bistro plans fall through

Plans to establish a Shanghai Bistro in Lower-

town have been dropped. The cost of converting the space at Sixth and Wall to a restaurant was too great, according to Henry Chan, who operates Shanghai Bis-tros in Woodbury, Hudson and Eau Claire, Wis.

Jackson Ramp reopens

The Jackson Ramp has re-opened to serve contract and daily motorists. Crowe Construction renovated the ramp and replaced steel and concrete to satisfy the safety concerns that caused the city to close the ramp a few years ago. The ramp is attached to the Pioneer/En-dicott buildings, which are scheduled to be converted from office and retail space to residential uses. The ramp capacity is about 400.

Amanda’s Deli expands menu

Amanda’s Deli is expand-ing its Mexican selections under its new owner, Alya Zhaivoronok. She is serving chicken burritos and en-chiladas, in addition to ta-cos, which were introduced under the previous owner. Amanda’s is located on the first floor of the First Bank building.

First Friday social at Wild Tymes

The next First Friday so-cial will be held 4-6 p.m., Jan. 6, at the Wild Tymes bar and restaurant at Sev-enth Place and St. Peter. Capitol River Council/Dis-trict sponsors these month-ly events to help downtown residents become better ac-quainted.

Sinfonia concertPianist Andrew Staupe is

the featured performer at the Winter Concert Series of the Minnesota Sinfonia, held at 7 p.m., Fri., Jan. 6, at Founder’s Hall at Metro State University. He will play Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor by Mozart. Other selections include Concertino by Unseth and Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

Beer DabblerThe St. Paul Winter Car-

nival Beer Dabbler has been moved from Mears Park to the Farmers Market to ac-commodate a larger crowd. The event is held 4-8 p.m., Jan. 28. Visitors may sam-ple products from 60 to 80 craft and microbreweries. Proceeds will go to several local charities and non-profits.

Wild Tymes under new ownership

Wild Tymes Bar and Res-taurant at Seventh Place and St. Peter has new own-ers. Palace of St. Paul LLC, which owns the Palace The-atre and Seventh Place Resi-dence, in which the restau-rant is located, now owns and operates Wild Tymes. The new owners plan to up-grade the televisions, carpet and bathrooms. An expand-ed menu is also expected.

Lowry Lab performance

Winter Warm Up will be presented at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays in January at the Lowry Lab Theatre at Fifth and St. Pe-ter. The programs will have a variety of drama, comedy and burlesque. For more

information, visit www.the-atrespaceproject.org.

‘Guys and Dolls’ at St. Paul Prep

St. Paul Preparatory School will present a junior version of “Guys and Dolls” at 7 p.m., Jan. 12 and 13, at the Wellstone Center, 179 E. Robie St., St. Paul. The show is based on the origi-nal musical, with music by Frank Loesser and stories by Damon Runyon.

City Passport events

A program on Winter Carnival history and mem-orabilia will be presented at 1:30 p.m., Tues., Jan, 31, at the City Passport senior citizen center, located on the mezzanine level of the Alliance Bank building, 55 E. 5th St. Denny Harris will display memorabilia and talk about past Winter Carnivals.

Other City Passport events include: Happy Birthday party, 2 p.m., Mon., Jan. 9; Trivia time, 10:30 a.m., Wed., Jan. 18; Writers group, 10 a.m., Fri., Jan. 20; Current events dis-cussion, 11 a.m., Fri., Jan. 20; Ice cream float social, 1:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 27; Healing sounds of music, 10:45 a.m., Fri., Jan. 13 and 27. Indiana Jones movies will be shown at 1 p.m. on Thursdays. They are “Raid-ers of the Lost Ark” on Jan. 5; “Temple of Doom” on Jan. 12; “Lost Crusaders” on Jan. 19 and “Crystal Skull” on Jan. 26.

Nature sanctu-ary open for winter fun

Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, located on the

east edge of downtown, is open during the winter for walking, snowshoeing and sight-seeing. The sanctu-ary features open springs, caves and birds that remain in Minnesota during the winter. Planning continues on a proposed bike and pe-destrian bridge that would cross the railroad tracks and Warner Road to connect the sanctuary with Lower Landing Park.

Music at the Black Dog

The Zack Harris quartet will present a jazz concert 8-10 p.m., Wed., Jan. 4, at the Black Dog Café, 308 Prince St., St. Paul. Dean Magraw and Dava Seru will perform at 7 p.m., Tues., Jan. 3. Willie Murphy will play blues on the piano on Fri., Jan. 13.

The Beer Dabbler will hold a pre-party 6-9 p.m., Wed., Jan. 11. The party is a promotion for the Beer Dabbler on Jan. 28 at the Farmers Market.

Library eventsFriends of the Library will

present “Book It: The Party - Get Loud at the Library” at 7 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 26, in the Hill Reading Room, 80 W. 4th St., St. Paul. The event features a trivia pro-gram on books and bars with Jeff Kamin, music by “Black Blondie” and prizes. Tickets are available at the Hill Reference Library.

The History Book Club will discuss “Nickel and Dimed on (not) Getting by in America” by Barbara Eh-renreich at 2 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 26, at Central Library.

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Don MorganContributor

January is a tough month for driving. Weather and

traffic make for difficult conditions. Eighty-six years ago some drivers in St. Paul found out just how rough January can be for auto travel. Folks also saw an embarrassing fall for a for-mer city official and took in movies in the last days of si-lent pictures. Also, half the city went ahead and had its own Winter Carnival.

New Year’s Eve 1925 was low-key, mostly because lo-cal bootleggers ran out of “product,” which forced most parties to be sober af-fairs. Dances at the St. Paul Hotel, St. Francis Hotel and the Elks Club on Rice Park were well attended but quiet. Still, some folks man-aged to find some stronger stuff and with it proved what people were just be-ginning to understand; that drinking and driving were a bad combination.

It was in the early morn-ing of Jan. 1 that a car crashed through the railing of the Sixth Street Bridge. In

those pre-interstate days the street continued on over the rail yards to the east side of the city. The car, a Model-T Ford with a young man and his girlfriend inside, broke through the railing and fell 50 feet to the railroad tracks below. The car landed on its nose, than crashed over on its back. The Pioneer Press was unusually delicate when it simply reported that the condition of the bodies made “identification difficult.” It was not the last auto mishap of the month.

Another incident early that month provided lo-cals with some amusement. With the coming of Pro-hibition in 1920, the St. Paul police department, like many other cities, com-bined the duties of its vice squad with local prohibition enforcement. The result was a police team termed the Purity Squad. They spent a large part of their time raid-ing speakeasies and illegal stills and breweries.

But then as now, the temptation of the money available in illegal drugs could be hard to resist. It was big news when the

former head of the Purity Squad, retired from the department for less than a month, was captured as part of a plot to rob a wholesale pharmacy on University Av-enue of a large shipment of “medicinal alcohol.” Many letter writers to the press found it hilarious; to the police it was embarrassing.

Early January also saw the second auto related news story of the month. An ice storm hit the city and local drivers had a hard time cop-ing. Icy streets caused cars to hit “curbs, posts, signs, streetcars and each other.” At least this time there were no injuries. People were reported to have been especially careful on Sixth Street, where the railing had not yet been replaced. The Smith Avenue High Bridge was closed for two days, lest someone take a really big dive into the Mississippi River.

Wintertime funAs with most Januaries,

people looked for ways to have some fun. If you could afford it, winter trips were

as popular then as now. Lo-cal travel agencies could eas-ily get you to Florida, Cali-fornia, the West Indies or the French Riviera. But few had the time or money for those locales and looked for their entertainment closer to home.

Movies were popular and theaters in those days did their best business during the cold weather months. No one knew it then, but the era of silent films was just about over; the first talking pictures would hit screens in a little more than one year. Some great silent movies played downtown St. Paul that January. Film fans could take in “The Beautiful City” (Dorothy Gish and Richard Bar-thelmess), “The Black Bird” (Lon Chaney), “Infatua-tion” (Corinne Griffith and Percy Marmont), “Dance Madness” (Claire Wind-sor and Conrad Nagel), “Tumbleweeds” (William S. Hart) and, the favorite, Charlie Chaplin in “The Gold Rush.”

If live performance was more your thing, there was a well reviewed production

of “The Student Prince” at the Metropolitan on Sixth. Also, a psychic calling him-self The Mystic Marjah spent two weeks in the city, prognosticating three times daily, including special la-dies-only matinees.

The Winter Carnival was an on-off thing in the city, and by 1926 it had been off for nearly ten years. A Fort Road civic group went ahead and organized a West Seventh Street Carnival, complete with its own pa-rade, music and ice palace. On a nice, brisk January day a parade from Seven Cor-ners to Webster Street drew a big crowd and several city school and neighborhood marching bands. There was a fire at the Schmidt Brew-ery the year before and the carnival parade gave a lot of folks from around the city a chance to check out the repairs. Production (non-al-coholic only) would resume in a couple of months. The carnival was a big success.

Sadly, the end of the month saw more traffic fatalities. Five were killed in one day in two separate auto-rail accidents. The

worst was a car that was demolished in a downtown collision with a streetcar. Another rail-related death a few days later was more disturbing in many ways as it didn’t involve a collision at all. An icy wind snapped an overhead streetcar pow-er line, which fell across a passing car, electrocut-ing the driver. The short knocked out rail service to a large part of downtown and a horrified crowd gathered to watch as police gingerly tried to decide if it was safe to touch the car.

Today, January is still tricky for drivers, and ice is just as slippery now as in 1926. With the end of Pro-hibition, the Purity Squad went back to simply being the vice squad (today it’s the drug and vice squad). They now do compliance checks on bars but no lon-ger need to raid speakeas-ies. The Winter Carnival is back to covering the whole city. This year’s parade is on Jan. 28. And no one needs to worry about running out of “product” on New Year’s Eve.

January 1926: Traffic problems and half a carnival

How can I boost and maintain an optimal immune system?At this time of the year, many people notice that they feel a little sluggish, tired, have sinus trouble, cough and headaches. Although you might think that this is normal for this time of year, please consider if it really is “normal” to have these symptoms. Every year, millions of people suffer with these types of symptoms, yet most of the time they can be prevented with just a few simple steps to boost your immune system. Here are a few:

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Avoid: • Sugar, processed foods, artificial sweeteners. • Caffeine; can deplete vitamin B levels. • A nutrition deficient diet. • Overwhelming or overexerting your body; applies to overwork and downtime. • Pollution, toxins, allergens and mold. • Stress and sleep deprivation. • BBQ meat (charring food produces carcinogens). • Artificial ingredients or sweeteners.

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