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* He was the fastest artist in the world, producing hundreds of thousands of paintings during his 60-year career.  The man behind the sloppily-expressionistic landscapes?  [[Burnette_G_Pletan%2C_World%27s_Fastest_Artist|Burnette Pletan.]][[Image:Burnette-Pletan-1988.jpg|right|120px|thumb|Burnette Pletan.]]
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* [[Image:Burnette-Pletan-1988.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Burnette Pletan.]]He was the fastest artist in the world, producing hundreds of thousands of paintings during his 60-year career.  The man behind the sloppily-expressionistic landscapes?  [[Burnette_G_Pletan%2C_World%27s_Fastest_Artist|Burnette Pletan.]]
 
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* [[Image:Idelkope-Cornice.jpg|right|140px]]It was one of my favorite downtown buildings, until its focus changed from reading to jogging:  The [[Idelkope_Building%2C_Fargo_ND|Idelkope Building]], diagonal from the Great Northern Railstation, was once food-focused, so I guess I'd have called it my favorite place in the 1950s, too.   
 
* [[Image:Idelkope-Cornice.jpg|right|140px]]It was one of my favorite downtown buildings, until its focus changed from reading to jogging:  The [[Idelkope_Building%2C_Fargo_ND|Idelkope Building]], diagonal from the Great Northern Railstation, was once food-focused, so I guess I'd have called it my favorite place in the 1950s, too.   

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  • Burnette Pletan.
    He was the fastest artist in the world, producing hundreds of thousands of paintings during his 60-year career. The man behind the sloppily-expressionistic landscapes? Burnette Pletan.


  • Idelkope-Cornice.jpg
    It was one of my favorite downtown buildings, until its focus changed from reading to jogging: The Idelkope Building, diagonal from the Great Northern Railstation, was once food-focused, so I guess I'd have called it my favorite place in the 1950s, too.


  • One day, on a walkabout, we ran across a classy steel shed that looked like it was built out of recycled tin ceiling tiles. The construction was so fine, including neat finials, that we figured it must've been a kit garage. A little research, and we discover we met a Rusk Auto-House, manufactured right here in Fargo. (article in progress)
  • John Till, the Somerset Doctor arrived in my life as a crushed-corner postcard bought at a Wisconsin antique shoppe. Who was this doctor, famous enough to get a postcard? To have extraordinary P.R. you need to do extraordinary things, and Till promised such magic.
  • Has a well-wishing friend forwarded you a warning about unsolicited parking-lot perfume sales? Most of them mention Fargo at the very top -- here's why.


  • A place I didn't know existed, even though I probably passed it a million times when I was a kid: The New Palace Hotel. Like oh-so-many 'second floor' flophouse hotels that existed in Fargo through the 1970s and 1980s, it lived hidden-away above retail storefronts. in 1990, it burned down; arson is the prime suspect. I found a number of clippings about it in a box of ephemera from The Rage, one of the stores destroyed in the fire.
  • A new category, given the number of such objects I'm interested in scanning: Maps. Most are extremely large 300-dpi files, so that their information can remain useful.
  • The Category List allows you to view most/all content, and browse topically.



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