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I am sure that Main Street looks vastly different than 1920 Sauk Centre, but it doesn't look as though it has changed much since 1955 or so. There was not a bit of activity the saturday afternoon that we drove its length.
Updated Jul 24, 2003
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In my day we walked ten miles to school and it was uphill both ways, not to mention the blizzards that started October 15th and didn't let up until April 30th, don't even get me started on how bad the mosquitos and black flies were in my day or the fact that the grasshoppers would move in by the billions and eat all the crops or that all us school kids would invariable lose hands and feet in pa's thresher and how we ate lye for supper. And we liked it. We loved it!
Updated Jul 24, 2003
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A downtown theater that still shows movies! This is becoming a rarity in the U.S. I suspect every town of at least a few thousand souls had a downtown movie theater between 1930 and 1975 or so. But then somebody came up with the bright idea of putting movie theaters in malls and then it was only a matter of time before cineplexes were born. Now movies are only shown in clusters in suburbia. But not in Sauk Centre. Want to see Charlie's Angels Two, just head on down to Main Street. Cool.
Written Jul 24, 2003
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I had never before seen an honest to goodness Nobel Prize. I suppose most people haven't. But you can, if you stop at the Sauk Centre Information Center and Sinclair Lewis Museum. (You will notice how the photographer, cutting edge guy that he is, lopped off the left edge of the letter N in Nobel. That is called art. Not ineptitude behind the lense.)
Updated Jul 23, 2003
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I was so pleased with myself when I snapped this photo. Wait 'til the folks at VT get a load of this museum, I cackled to Becky. I laughed and laughed. But this is actually one of the best small museums I've ever seen. It is well done. Up to date. And the interpretive signs in the display area are top-notch. And best of all--it is free. Definitely worth pulling over if you find yourself in northwest Minnesota.
Written Jul 23, 2003
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This isn't it. Only a small model located at the Sauk Centre Information Center and Sinclair Lewis Museum. The road to the actual home was closed because of construction and flooding made it virtually impossible to visit. Therefore, we settled for the replication. Interesting icon over the home's roofline.
Written Jul 23, 2003
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Go ahead and stay at the Gopher Prairie Motel if you wish. But it is just a bit on the creepy side for me (and by that I mean a whole lot). Come on, would you be the least bit surprised to find Norman Bates behind the desk taking your reservation?
Written Jul 23, 2003
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I wonder if anyone ever reads Sinclair Lewis anymore. The nobel laureate and auther of classics such as Elmer Gantry, Babbitt, Cass Timberlane and of course, Main Street, was born and raised in Sauk...
Bryant Library, one of the 64 Minnesota libraries built with money from Andrew Carnegie that also houses the Sauk Centre Historical Society museum. constructed: 1904 address: 430 Main Street...
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