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Title: Minnesota trivia
Post by: STAMP on January 08, 2010, 12:42:05 PM: So TJ and I watched Public Enemy last night starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. I was curious about some of the facts depicted in the movie so I Wiki'd Dillinger and got a surprise that one of my boyhood hometowns, Hastings, was the setting for a notable event during the time that Dillinger was being hunted down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_dillinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_dillinger)

I also discovered that Hastings is a location for one of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs, the Fasbender Clinic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasbender_Clinic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasbender_Clinic)

Yes, lots of new useless information. :D And yet my friends still question how I win so many of our trivia games. :rollin:
Title: Re: Minnesota trivia
Post by: Master KChief on January 08, 2010, 03:34:50 PM: is hastings also the original location of the hastings store? i love that store. :)
Title: Re: Minnesota trivia
Post by: Glorfindel 12 on January 14, 2010, 09:46:02 PM: Quote from: STAMP on January 08, 2010, 12:42:05 PM
So TJ and I watched Public Enemy last night starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. I was curious about some of the facts depicted in the movie so I Wiki'd Dillinger and got a surprise that one of my boyhood hometowns, Hastings, was the setting for a notable event during the time that Dillinger was being hunted down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_dillinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_dillinger)

I also discovered that Hastings is a location for one of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs, the Fasbender Clinic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasbender_Clinic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasbender_Clinic)

Yes, lots of new useless information. :D And yet my friends still question how I win so many of our trivia games. :rollin:
Cool do you know what happened in Northfield MN?
Title: Re: Minnesota trivia
Post by: STAMP on January 15, 2010, 02:44:51 PM: Quote from: Glorfindel 12 on January 14, 2010, 09:46:02 PM
Cool do you know what happened in Northfield MN?

Obama and the left don't want anyone to find out about Northfield, MN. ;)
Title: Re: Minnesota trivia
Post by: Glorfindel 12 on January 18, 2010, 10:29:09 PM: Oh thats to bad considering that THE WHOLE TOWN VOTED FOR HIM!!! ;)
Don't tell anyone that I told you that! ;D
Title: Re: Minnesota trivia
Post by: STAMP on January 19, 2010, 01:30:39 AM: By the way, the 1972 movie version of the true story starring Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall was filmed three miles from my house. :o
Title: Re: Minnesota trivia
Post by: 3-Liner And Bags Of Chips on January 19, 2010, 11:51:14 AM: The wire was filmed three blocks from my house on one episode. I was going to work and they had a whole street blocked off. I was like whaaaa....?