[0:00] I say a little thank you every time I

[0:02] walk by it because it came from our

[0:04] first building and it was saved notice

[0:06] the anchor on it there's an ad uh from

[0:10] 1947 just after it opens talking about

[0:13] the minaka room and by the way when you

[0:16] walk in the mun in the very front

[0:18] entrance have you ever noticed that the

[0:20] wall is kind of wavy and painted blue

[0:23] well it's wavy because of waves but it's

[0:26] blue in honor of the first mun because

[0:28] the one wall was blue in the first mun

[0:31] so in case you didn't know that kind of

[0:33] another little fun piece

[0:36] right I did find a couple ads that the

[0:38] mun ran toward the end of the year of

[0:41] 1947 the one on the left is right around

[0:43] Thanksgiving saying we'll be closed on

[0:45] Thanksgiving but the liquor store is

[0:46] open until 10:00 the one on the right is

[0:48] just talking about come and celebrate

[0:50] Christmas and of course big in the 40s

[0:52] and 50s around the holidays was Tom and

[0:54] Jerry's so that's mentioned in both

[0:56] those ads and I won't ask you but maybe

[0:59] I'll ask you you don't have to answer

[1:00] how many of you still have a Tom and

[1:02] Jerry set at

[1:04] home how many of you have

[1:08] two I knew it I knew I I knew I had

[1:11] friends okay here's probably the most

[1:15] popular picture that we've ever used

[1:16] about the mun gives you a great idea of

[1:19] where it was the theater was is that a

[1:21] jewelry store the municipal uh the sign

[1:24] in the window actually says on sale

[1:26] which you may or may not be able to read

[1:28] and it stood in this location until uh

[1:31] 1967 and if you have seen the uh cans of

[1:36] beer that our current mun had produced

[1:38] for their 75th there's a custom label

[1:40] that they had made and you'll recognize

[1:42] this picture incorporated as part of

[1:44] that label cuz uh I gave that to Jeff

[1:47] down at the mun to use to help create

[1:49] their their label off of so if you

[1:51] haven't seen those cans of beer you

[1:53] better go down and buy

[1:56] some okay a quick little trip just a

[1:58] couple uh Street scen just to kind of

[2:01] again thinking about y z in 1947 and

[2:03] just how much the town has changed so

[2:05] here we're looking westand Li and lumber

[2:08] the big building on the right side of

[2:09] the street look at how wide the street

[2:11] is and the cars and the parking and just

[2:13] on the other side of the railing of

[2:15] course would be the railroad and and the

[2:18] lake still looking West get a great

[2:21] sense of the style of cars of the day

[2:24] and there's that Gibbs Hardware building

[2:26] that I pointed out in the previous photo

[2:28] and then just beyond it um is the

[2:32] mun and this is one of our favorite

[2:35] photos uh those of us especially Sue and

[2:37] myself in the archives because it's the

[2:40] West end of town and such a great

[2:41] picture of the buildings and the

[2:43] building on the far left is Dr

[2:45] martinson's clinic and the building next

[2:46] to it's the old drugstore and they're

[2:48] the location of y z blue condos today

[2:51] the building next to that is the bank

[2:53] with the four columns and pedet and

[2:54] Kaiser grocery next to that those have

[2:57] recently been torn down but the new and

[2:59] built has uh the facade of the bank has

[3:01] been um recreated the next building uh

[3:05] you can kind of see the peaks of it is

[3:06] the rer Ford motors and then the

[3:09] building next to that is the Village

[3:12] Hall well remember there were three

[3:14] needs that wetta had and we talked about

[3:16] the school and now I want to just

[3:17] mention quickly about the fire

[3:19] department so we wanted a new fire

[3:21] department facility and so what they end

[3:24] up doing is building a new fire

[3:26] department uh in the uh office Mill

[3:30] Street so now to make sure everybody's

[3:32] clear Mill Street is that street that

[3:33] you pass that goes in front of the

[3:35] current day Muni takes you all the way

[3:36] down to the new parking ramp right so

[3:39] that's called Mill Street so if you

[3:41] think back to where uh where things were

[3:43] before all the new building was there's

[3:46] a map in the upper leftand corner the

[3:48] building in the far upper leftand corner

[3:50] of that map is the old Oddfellows Hall

[3:53] that's now Grocer's table the building

[3:56] next to it was the Gold Mine Antiques

[3:59] and that's you know kind of part of

[4:00] grocery table's outdoor area and that

[4:03] Lululemon and the building in the far

[4:05] lower corner on the left side of that

[4:07] map is now

[4:09] cheel so I guess I didn't use the best

[4:12] color I used yellow and it doesn't show

[4:14] up very well but can you see the

[4:16] rectangular building kind of in the

[4:17] middle that I outlined in yellow so it

[4:20] says Ice House on it guess what kind of

[4:22] a business ice house is it's not a

[4:25] restaurant it's not what you think it's

[4:28] the ice house used for storage storage

[4:30] for the blocks of ice harvested off of

[4:32] lake minona and we Bay by our we

[4:35] residents right so they're stored in the

[4:37] ice house now a lot of this uh block was

[4:41] burned and severely damaged in 1926 in

[4:44] the fire including the ice house when I

[4:47] talked with Paul CLA about the uh

[4:50] evolution of the fire department with

[4:52] regard to this mun program what he said

[4:55] was that the new Fire Department was

[4:57] built in 1949 it was built on the

[4:59] foundation of the ice house so that's

[5:02] why I pulled that map in and showed you

[5:04] where that location was picture in the

[5:06] lower right shows you the front of that

[5:08] um fire department and it's

[5:11] now kind of the square still it still

[5:15] looks like this it's just that it's not

[5:18] a fire department obviously anymore and

[5:20] it's kind of to the uh left or to the

[5:22] east on the alleyway side of josephina's

[5:26] restaurant now was bellor before that

[5:30] was blueo before that it was louet so if

[5:33] you think about that outside eating area

[5:35] it's just to the left of that and if you

[5:38] look at it today it still looks like

[5:40] this you can tell it's still the same

[5:43] building so that becomes the new home of

[5:45] the fire

[5:47] department well now uh Colonial Square

[5:50] has been built and open by

[5:52] 1958 and why Isa says hey we have a

[5:55] great idea let's open a second Municipal

[5:58] liquor store and create One-Stop

[6:00] shopping go to Colonial Square get your

[6:02] groceries at Red Owl go a couple doors

[6:05] down and get a bottle of wine for dinner

[6:07] so they decide to open the second

[6:09] Municipal store they open it up in

[6:12] Colonial

[6:13] Square and there's a picture of it in

[6:16] the upper left the arrow is pointing and

[6:19] guess what it says just like down on

[6:21] Lake Street Liquors one word again

[6:24] that's it anybody here actually remember

[6:28] when that was there cuz nobody does it

[6:32] was there from 1960 to

[6:35] 1977 so

[6:38] anyways uh 3 weeks ago I took a picture

[6:41] that's the lower right standing in the

[6:43] parking lot of the bank Walgreens across

[6:45] the parking lot across the street and I

[6:47] put an arrow in in the same location of

[6:50] where that would location would have

[6:52] been today it's kind of by uh Sport

[6:54] Clips and party Safari area so that

[6:58] remained until

[7:01] 1977 well now it's time for the

[7:04] municipal mun as we love to call it to

[7:07] get bigger and kind of expand so it's

[7:10] going to leave its location on Lake

[7:11] Street and it's going to move down to

[7:13] wetta uh bay shopping

[7:15] center and so we've got a picture of

[7:18] some construction of it being built uh

[7:21] an end result of the liquor store

[7:23] entrance and a couple of articles that I

[7:25] put in there on the left and it's now

[7:27] going to be called the Town Tavern

[7:30] and it's going to be there until 2006 or

[7:33] so and it's going to include a liquor

[7:36] store that has a wine shop that's

[7:38] designed to look like the inside of a

[7:40] wine

[7:42] barrel and it's going to have two bars

[7:46] and it's going to have a combined

[7:47] seating of 160 people now sadly like

[7:51] with the first mun there's not a single

[7:54] photo of the inside of this part of its

[7:57] Evolution however I did find again

[8:01] really great

[8:02] description so they created two bars in

[8:05] a liquor store one bar was called the

[8:08] working man's bar or referred to at

[8:10] least as the working man's bar the other

[8:12] was the bar/lounge and then there was a

[8:15] liquor store so I talked to a lot of

[8:18] people to try and understand what this

[8:20] was like and putting everybody's answers

[8:23] together here's what I've come up

[8:26] with so these two bars were connected

[8:29] together so that one bar served both of

[8:33] them so the bartenders worked both sides

[8:36] of the bar okay and the working man's

[8:40] bar was designed to be kind of a casual

[8:42] drop in have a beer kind of a thing and

[8:45] then the other one was a little more

[8:47] fancy the working man's bar side had

[8:50] vinyl tiles on the floor interestingly

[8:52] everybody remember that part and dark

[8:55] wood paneling on the

[8:56] walls and it's described in the

[8:59] newspaper paper is having a bit of an

[9:01] English pub look people weren't so sure

[9:04] they kind of agreed with that but it had

[9:06] one color TV on the wall and it had a

[9:09] large juk box and there were speakers

[9:12] for the Juke Box in both

[9:15] bars the other bar/ Lounge also had dark

[9:19] wood paneling on the bottom of the walls

[9:22] it had Red Suede wallpaper on the top

[9:25] half of the walls and a wooden X that

[9:28] crossed in each

[9:30] panel and it had a tile floor instead of

[9:34] a vinyl

[9:35] floor it had decorative cone-shaped

[9:38] bronze light fixtures above each

[9:41] booth and it had a color TV on the wall

[9:46] and each Booth had a selection box where

[9:50] they could play music from the juke box

[9:52] which was located in the other bar but

[9:54] remember there were speakers on both

[9:57] sides so that's the best that I was able

[10:01] to put together from newspaper and

[10:03] people's memories a little bit about

[10:05] that first iteration at the wetta bay

[10:09] center then it was remodeled in

[10:12] 1986 so now we're maybe getting to where

[10:15] a few more of us might recognize it so

[10:18] here's uh from the archives a picture of

[10:21] the liquor store these are pictures I

[10:24] took the week that it was going to be

[10:25] torn down so that's why they're in color

[10:27] so all the colored pictures to comeing

[10:29] up our pictures that that I took the

[10:31] black and white ones were pictures from

[10:32] our archives um who remembers the

[10:34] artwork above the door if you didn't I

[10:37] made sure to put that picture in there

[10:39] and then also the kind of garden trellis

[10:41] artwork behind the cash

[10:44] register here's the uh rest of the mun

[10:47] or the mun itself with those arched

[10:50] curved windows and again a picture that

[10:52] I took in the lower right and then the

[10:55] wetta bar and grill so it goes through

[10:57] some different names it's town Tavern

[11:00] and then it's called portol beastro for

[11:02] a while remember that I'm seeing some

[11:05] heads nood and then as we know it today

[11:08] still at wi that the bar and

[11:10] grill so here's a lovely picture of the

[11:14] bar and uh notice at the top of the bar

[11:18] there's a kind of like a little port

[11:19] hole idea those were saved and are in

[11:23] the new mun if you've never noticed

[11:26] those you're all going to need to be

[11:28] taken to tour of the new mun aren't

[11:30] you and uh a picture I took again the

[11:33] week that it's going to be torn down and

[11:35] the port hole if you remember that

[11:38] that's also in the new mun when you walk

[11:40] in it's right in front of you on the

[11:41] wall just above the Blue Wave that port

[11:44] hole has been um installed

[11:47] there and there's the pull tab

[11:50] booth and I took the other picture

[11:53] you're kind of thinking wow your camera

[11:54] wasn't aim very well you really got

[11:56] mostly floor I did that purposefully

[11:59] because when Gina and I talked about the

[12:01] new mun she said I'm really hoping to

[12:03] duplicate the tile floor so I when I

[12:06] took my picture I thought oh I got to

[12:07] take a picture of that floor and see if

[12:09] that

[12:10] happens and then this is that little

[12:12] raised kind of Terrace area and uh kind

[12:16] of its colors and then I thought well

[12:18] that's the only picture I have with Chad

[12:20] and Gina but in case people remember

[12:22] them they were the managers of the mun

[12:23] when it first uh moved to the new

[12:26] location as well as uh for a few years

[12:28] in the old location

[12:31] so now it's going to be time for that

[12:32] mun to think about moving so it's

[12:36] 2006 there's an article in the

[12:38] Minneapolis Star that talks about that

[12:40] it's going to be moving out of wetta bay

[12:41] center it's going to be moving across

[12:43] the street I uh went down and took a

[12:46] couple pictures while it was being built

[12:48] so there's the outside about to

[12:51] be there's the inside with the bar and

[12:55] the um I was very excited when I saw

[12:58] this cuz I knew that the ceiling above

[13:00] the bar was going to be kind of that you

[13:02] know oldfashioned tin ceiling

[13:05] look and look there's our floor so the

[13:08] new floor and the old

[13:11] floor and then you probably recognize

[13:14] this as we're looking through the big

[13:15] doorway under the exit side going into

[13:17] the hallway and the and the liquor store

[13:18] across the way and the second doorway on

[13:21] the right is the uh entrance to the

[13:25] restrooms so we decided to do something

[13:28] when the mun was about to move

[13:31] um historically when five swans moved

[13:36] there was a gathering of five swans

[13:38] customers and they said we're going to

[13:40] help carry everything to the new place

[13:42] so people gathered at five swans and

[13:44] carried things to the new place so we

[13:45] said well that'd be kind of fun let's do

[13:47] that we don't have anything to carry but

[13:49] let's just gather everybody in the old

[13:51] mun location and walk across the street

[13:53] together and celebrate with open doors

[13:55] and arms the new lo location so this is

[13:58] all of us gathering in the parking lot

[14:00] of the old mun and uh Gina if you

[14:03] remember Gina Holman she's getting ready

[14:05] with her little megaphone to direct us

[14:07] all across the street and uh another

[14:11] picture of the crowd Gathering we had

[14:13] quite a few people that gathered and we

[14:15] walked across the street and greeted our

[14:17] new mun so here's a couple pictures that

[14:20] I took of the outside of the new mun

[14:23] should be something very familiar to you

[14:24] at this point so why that a bar and

[14:27] grill why that a wine and spirits is of

[14:29] of course the name of the liquor store

[14:31] portion there is that blue wavy wall

[14:33] that I mentioned there's the port hole

[14:36] and walking inside the front

[14:39] entrance here's in the liquor store the

[14:41] I took a picture of the craft beer

[14:43] section