2007 St. Paul Winter Carnival Medallion -ACT I

That reminds me of a story from 2003 I think. I was living in Cottage Grove at the time. A friend of mine from my singles club owned a house there, but he was in the Air Force on active duty and was away a lot so he wanted someone to live there as a sort of roommate/housesitter. It was a great house on 2.5 acres and we had a lot of parties there. One of the most interesting parts of the house was this mini railroad track that was laid out in the backyard through the woods. Whoever made it even went through the trouble of building a couple of bridges over a gulley in the yard.

So anyway, I was at Battle Creek. My Mock Hunt had just ended as Jake finally found my medallion after searching for days. I went out to meet him there and ClueMaster showed up a bit later. As we were standing around chatting, Clue Master commented that he had heard I was in Cottage Grove and he was wondering where I was since he was familiar with the city. I told him I was off Ideal Ave., south of Jamaica. He's like, "Oh, yeah, I know that area. Whereabouts?" I told him I was on 113th, but he thought I said 115th and so again he was like, "yeah, I know where that is." Then I corrected him on the street name and suddenly he seemed excited. Then I gave him the address and he was like "No way!" That was the house he grew up in! It was Clue Master and his family that built that railroad and those bridges. From what I heard later, he even tried to blow them up once to tie all these threads together. :wink:

Great story AW!

somewhere i got pictures from one of the parties there with a boatload of us on the trains.

we're all tied together in such strange ways ---

if we put all the stories together on how we all coulda have met at different times in our lives and the intertwining- could make for a great "six degrees of seperation" - can one of you guys make a thread for me for that? I may need to use these stories in a college paper soon :wink:

eags, we just found out last month that a guy who lived at 13 Alice found the medallion in hiddenfalls one year! I never knew I lived right next door to him. Alice park has an actual address too- I think its 31? it has an odd side of the street number instead of an even side.

For those of you with copies of "Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt History", I have put a PDF of the updated pages at www.wintercarnival.8m.com under the "Order the Book" page. Please print them out, fold them over and keep them with your book.

And that may be the only update to the web site this year. I'm on overtime until the 25th and then I'm off for the rest of the hunt. Here's hoping it goes that long!

where do I fit in to all that?

hahahahaha

Just once!!!!! And is that all I'm good for?

At least I hope not.

that train thing rocked...

Why is everybody hanging out at the same Target?

I was there at 3:00-:3:30 or so today....

I'm gonna hafta stop going to stores in West St. Paul.

:eyeroll:

I returned a PS3 and a Nintedo Wii at the same time....

should have seen the look on the guys face. hahaha.

The Cooler Crew Loves mrmnmikey We're really glad you're here = here :cool:

Cooler Crew Chick mrmnmikey Rules!! = somewhere else :coolfrown:

Thanks for posting that AW!!

I love that story.

And thank you for letting me include my bros in that historic AW Re-Hash bash. We talk about it to this day. Talk about bringing back memories. There was a time where we were standing by the garage all alone and we each started to tear up when listening to you guys partying in the back by the fire. We had sooooo many parties there. Talk about the best place ever to have a party right at home huh?

Thanks for letting us take pictures inside the house too. Although it seemed much smaller than I remember, it still brought back all of those childhood memories.

I can only wish you all could have an experience like that in you life.

::tearing up again::

Thanks AW and those who were there for that great time.

can you say Dr. vs Peppermint Schnapps toast? :ooh:

Clue Master, I sure can relate to your story!

I got to tour the house I lived in from age 10-19. It was a very cool house, built in 1918, with french doors and a roof that curved under. I had a closet off my bedroom that was the size of half a bedroom, and a balcony off my room too. I'd buy that house in a heartbeat if it came on the market.

I happened to drive up the street it is on, one Friday afternoon on my way home from work, when I still lived in the cities. The people who owned it were having a yard sale in the front yard, but it was just starting to rain and they were taking everything in. I asked them if they would be open on Saturday and they said yes but I was welcome to come inside and look right then! I had tears in my eyes. I told the owner that I used to live in that house and she took me all over the place. It looked smaller, and also they had done a lot of things to the house to modernize it and it had lost a lot of its character. But I was so thrilled to be in there again. I went home and called my bro, he went the next day with his photo albums and showed them photos from when we lived there (they'd asked if I knew of any photos that might exist). I submitted a piece to the SPPP Bulletin Board and it was the headliner when it was printed (I submit under the handle "Suds").

So...what a cool garage sale to go to! You CAN go home again...sometimes.

You CAN go home again...sometimes

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You know exactly what I'm talking about. I feel it! :ooh:

I still live like 8 blocks from the house that I spent 19 years growing up in...

theres a tree in that yard that was planted the day I was born...

A garage that I helped build... tons of other stuff...

A G.I. Joe figure is (hopefully) still buried in the backyard...(he unfortunately met his fate, by falling from a 2nd story window. The other action figures were so saddened, that they had a funeral for him. The only one that I ever actually "retired")

I take detours past that place, quite often.

If the place is ever for sale, and I have the loot, i'm buying it back.

Tell me about it. I came back home and have never left. :neutral:

I had the option to buy my old place when it went up before AW was in it and was encouraged not to do so since it might tarnish my charished memories.

I agreed.

And I still would agree even if it was up for sale today. As much as I'd want it. Leave your memories alone. It's all you have.

The house I grew up in still stands. A few years ago when we were working on a Habitat for Humanity house across the street from there, I was sorely tempted to go knock on the door and have a look. We had done that once after my Mom sold it and I decided to leave those memories as they were.

I have, however, been in the house next door to where we grew up and where I often babysat the kids that lived there. That house is much the same as I remember.

BTW - The Habitat for Humanity house sits on the lot where we used to play baseball and kickball. It once was a parking lot for a Dodge dealership near there.

My grandparents (both deceaed now) on my moms side lived on Pacific Ave, over by Mounds Park for a long time....

The house that they lived in - they sold to some lady, who I believe was a 911 operator someplace... dunno what ever happened to her, but the house was taken over by Habitat For Humanity....

they had a HUGE side-yard... which is now gone...

Habitat for Humanity built a gigantor house, in the yard. :frown:

Also tore down my grandpa's garage which was probably only about 15 years old...

 :frown: :frown:

I hear ya.... makes sense...

Dunno though...

I think, if I ever have the option, I'd go for it. :chagrin:

It's kind of hard to try to make the place you grew up in fit your own taste when what you really want to do is have it stay the same. :pbpt: Especially when the house came with all the furnishings intact.

I'm not sure my parents would approve of the American flag that my daughters and I painted on the side of the garage. But all in all, I think they'd be okay with what I've done so far.

A few years back I went to the house I grew up in in Maple Grove and asked the guy if he would show me around. He asked me "How do I know you actually lived here?". I then began to describe the basement in great detail, then he walked away and shut the door. Pissed me right off.....

Hola.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday.

Hi Leela! Nice personal Joe there!

That party at AW's was one of the funnest cooler crew parties ever! that railroad rocked! I can still hear everyone going"WHOOOOOWHOOOOO! heehee! :sillygrin:

That's when Master rode my caboose... :ooh:

That railroad must be worth a fortune. I don't understand why it was left behind. (No pun intended...)

DOUBLE JOE!!! Post and Time! :sillygrin:

Got my button yesterday. Zephy, have you gotten yours yet? You better!

Will register it today.

I've been thinkin'... Wouldn't it be neat, with all the changes at Mom Press and all, if Boxmeyer and Millett were some how coerced into doing the Clues this year? Would that be GRAND?!!!

:chagrin: :wink: :coolfrown: :lipsealed:

a green day in the neighborhood

Just a quick notes about button registration:

According to the booklet that you get with your Winter Carnival button, you have until Monday, January 22nd to register your button. The Official Rules at twincities.com state that your registration must be postmarked by Saturday, January 20th.

Be safe, please register by this Saturday!

When do we have to register our Cooler Crew Button by...? :confused:

I got to visit the house I grew up in about 10 years after we sold it. I was dissapointed in the way the guy kept it up. All the work we did on maintaining the hardwood floors went to waste. He had black dirt trail embedded into the floors. They looked like crap. He didn't beleive that I lived there before untill I told him about a cedar closet that was inside another closet up stairs. Was kinda weird.

 The yard was full of weeds and he tore out the beatiful garden and grapevines and turned it into a junkyard.

I also had a chance to buy that house and was advised not to because no matter what you would have changed, somebody would say "Thats not how Mom and Dad would have wanted it".

CHEERS

Saturday, Jan 20...funny, I just noticed that date discrepancy today, too! :eek:

When people have been buying buttons, I've been telling them the 22nd :sheepish: :worried:

:worried: :eek:

You're right, the card does say the 22nd.

Wow... thats kinda funny.

Mine were mailed on Sunday. However, that means they probably sat in a mail box until today, but at least it's done. :smile:

1k personal joe for becksie!!!!!

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ha ha hardly!!

 :pbpt:

Let's see, Kitch, if you don't post for the next, say, 10 years...I could probably catch up to you!

Im back

KOP!!!!!:cool:

Hey bud. How's life?

Hello everyone! :sillygrin:

not real bad....still here

:smile: