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Midwest memories of the good old days and a few cool people we’ve met along the way.
Find more stories by Tracy Briggs here: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
Find more stories by Tracy Briggs here: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
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As one local archivist retires, I take a look at just how important historians are to our community. See more from Tracy Briggs on our website: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
Area couples detail the ways they met their significant others, from Captain America to MTV to a squirt gun. See more from Tracy Briggs on our website: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
Opponents couldn’t always clobber "The Greatest" of all time, but 55 years ago, a Fargo snowbank did. See this and the rest of Tracy Briggs' Back Then stories on our website: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
Columnist Tracy Briggs trades laborious dishes to making easy inspired-by-her-sweet-tooth desserts for gatherings. Lazy? You decide. See more from Tracy Briggs here: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
Tom Netherton starred in the hit television show in the '70s, became a popular Christian performer in the '80s, and made national headlines with Kathie Lee Gifford in the '90s. Visit our website to see photos and read more stories from Tracy Briggs: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
After Tracy Briggs' column on the popular hamburger joint that operated in Fargo from 1961 to 1979, her inbox was flooded with comments and stories, including priceless ones from "Prince Leo." Read Tracy's original column, along with the rest of her work, at https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
Even with 15 cent burgers and 12 cent fries, Fargo fast food pioneer King Leo's raked in the cash in the '60s and '70s thanks to a loyal fanbase and a fun-loving crew.
News readers might just have been craving some good news. Perhaps that’s why Forum journalist Cal Olson grabbed his photo gear and set out to snap a few pics that would undoubtedly put a smile on people’s faces. He found himself at the Presentation Sisters Convent at 1310 Broadway in Fargo to take a few shots of the sisters on ice. According to Olson’s story on Jan. 22, 1956, “each afternoon for the past several weeks, between 30 and 35 of the nuns have been skating for an hour or so, whirling around the ice on a small rink behind the convent.”
The story of how Bob Blake became a world-renowned builder of race cars for Jaguar while holding onto his Midwestern personality.
Around this time every year, my hospital administrator dad would put away his suit and tie and put on the Santa gear, with very mixed results.
Fire tore through the Earle Hotel on Dec. 13, 1951, killing three, making news around the world, and turning a one-armed man into a hero.
The partnership was formed nearly 75 years ago so the women could recreate a taste of the old country. What they did changed baking forever.
We asked your help in finding some of the "Famous Valley City Twins of 1935" and you delivered.
As many of you head to the Christmas tree lot to pick out that perfect pine, what would you think if one of America’s favorite TV dads, Ward Cleaver, sold it to you? Yes. That Ward Cleaver, as in June’s husband and Wally and Beaver’s dad. Sounds likes a fever dream (like Greg Brady taking your order at Starbucks or Gidget soaping up your tires at the car wash). But Ward Cleaver helping you with your Christmas tree actually could have happened. Hugh Beaumont, who starred as Ward Cleaver in the popular family sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” from 1957 to 1963, was once the proud owner of a Christmas tree farm in Grand Rapids. Read the rest, along with all of Tracy's Back Then stories, at http://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a cataclysmic moment for American journalists, and the reporters and editors of the Fargo Forum, as it was known in 1963, were no different. In a special episode of Back Then, Tracy Briggs reads an account of the moment the assassination made its way into the pages of the Forum, along with the chaotic hours and days that followed with the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald and his subsequent murder by Jack Ruby.
North Dakota high schools looking to replace outdated school nicknames are in luck. Thanks to science, the following mascots are now as representative of our state as bison, buffaloes, roughriders or vikings. How do these sound to you? The Fighting Jǫrmungandrs? The Walhallaensis Warriors? The Mighty Mosasaurs? Okay, maybe they need a little work. But the fact is any of those names would work after the American Natural History Museum recently released the name of a giant sea lizard "with angry eyebrows" who once swam here.
Readers solve the mystery identity of the Fargo toddler who traveled via U.S. Mail. It turns out that might have been one of the least interesting things about him.
This photo was found tucked in a book at the Fargo Public Library. But who are these people?
Some witnesses claimed they saw politicians looking down from a 'mystery airship' while others said they were Martians coming to buy ladies' clothes. What exactly was going on in Barnesville?
In 1913, when the U.S. Postal Service introduced parcel post service, customers took advantage by shipping their children.
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