Secrets of the City

When I was in high school the grocery store by our house was called The Country Store.

When a few letters burned out or were broken out it said…

You guessed it!

The C unt S ore.

I think every big lightup sign except the Gold Medal Flour sign has a letter burned out. St Anthony Main, Pillsbury, Riverplace, heck, even the De LaSalle has a burned out letter. Shameful.

Best. MnSpeak. Post. Ever.

More importantly, where can one buy a Wii in this damned town?

The requests for the Wii were much better when Rex was here.

The “M”s on this sign used to get ripped off with regularity. It’s right down the road from where Ericam went to high school.

If I ever come into a large sum of money I’m gonna startup a trust to fund the ongoing wellness of all those sweet old neon signs downtown. I love ‘em, but it’s too bad they burn out so frequently.

Yo mamma shops @ The C unt S ore.

Yo mamma shops @ The C unt S ore.

I swallowed my gum trying to suppress my laughter in my weirdly quiet office on this one.

More importantly, where can one buy a Wii in this damned town?

I have no answer, but the Freakonomics dudes are on the case!

Only barely relevant to this thread, whenever I see a sign that says
“Now leasing!”
I have an urge to add a ‘p’ to make it
“Now pleasing!”

Maybe someday.

fuck they got wiis in in roseville this morning and were sold out before noon

fucking fuckity fuck

I give up on the wii.

For some reason Fawltey Towers has come to mind…

I got my Wii at a suburban Target by waiting outside at 6:30 am on a Sunday. Sunday mornings are your best bet.

Or use the magic interwebs to assist you

Wii Tracker

RefreshThing’s Wii Tracker

There is a site that tracks inventory at physical stores but I can’t find the link anymore…

It’s right down the road from where Ericam went to high school.

Ahaha! I remember that place.

I saw a Ho Depot once. . . and a Target that was an arg
But then that’s usually how I feel about Target
PS — And the poor old Midway Knox Lumber used to lose its N from time to time. Finding those items in there was probably like looking for a wii

I’m STILL waiting for someone to step up to the plate and fork over whatever it would cost to get the Grain Belt sign up and working again…..so sad to see it just rusting away!

Time and entropy caught up with the display neon at my local drycleaners. The sign used to read “Laundry & dryclean” in bold glowing red.

Following some tube burn-out, it now reads “Fuckmongering Cockmaster”. Yeah, I was surprised too.

“where can one buy a Wii in this damned town?”

You don’t have a car or a license, but you want video games?

You don’t need a Wii, wayne. You need a FUTURE!

Manus Power Owers?

That makes *no* sense.

The Grain belt sign used to have neon as recently as the mid-90’s, but it was ALWAYS burnt out. Within two weeks of it being repaired it would be half burnt out again.

I used to wish they would figure out a way to get neon working on it again, but I have gotten used to it without. I like seeing the graphis without the tubing in the way.

If they are going to do the Grain Belt sign correctly they should replace all of the neon with LEDs. It would be much less susceptible to breakage and would cost a fraction to operate.

Apparently, when my dad was a teenager, each Halloween he and his buddies used to cover the ‘S’ on the giant lighted SHELL sign on the gas station they worked at on the end of my hometown’s main street. Wish I had a photo of that.

If they are going to do the Grain Belt sign correctly they should replace all of the neon with LEDs. It would be much less susceptible to breakage and would cost a fraction to operate

Damn treehuger! Oh, wait…

Hmmm…haven’t had a nice cold GB Premium in awhile. Gotta stop in the U Otter Stop Inn and feed that Jones.

The Oak Street Cinema theater in Stadium Village was known for most of its earlier life as the Campus Theatre. Shortly after I worked there, a long time ago, the top half of its neon-sign name that faced northbbound traffic on Oak St. burned out, and so, until repaired, it greeted all with this: “PUS”.

Maybe they should borrow the big “G” that WCCO uses on its “Good Question” segments. The idea of a camera man jumping on a letter G–how brilliant. Love those features.

http://www.itrackr.com/ to find your wii locally. i got mine after 2 days on the site.

and will the grain belt sign on the hennepin bridge ever be lit again??

I found a tracker site that said both NE and nicollet mall targets had wiis in stock, but when I called them both they said no.

wtf?

It knew the roseville one was sold out (which happened in less than half a day). Were those shits in the electronics department lying to me? Do I need to truck on down there and demand they check the stock?

Wayne, I’m showing they do have 10 in stock at Nicollet. They are probably holding them for the Sunday Circular.

You might want to get there 30 min before the store opens.