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The Silicon Valley that never was - Minnesota's Experimental City project was an attempt to solve problems by creating a city in isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
#urbandevelopment #experimentalcity #minnehistories #twincitiespbs
Learn more in "Minnesota Experience: The Experimental City" anytime online and with the @PBS Video App!
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Flashback to the Twin Cities in the 80s and re-examine a unique period of politics, people and culture.
'Electronicle 1980' premieres tonight on @MNExperienceTPT at 8PM.
After seven decades in show business, Twin Cities born actor and Minneapolis Central alumni James Hong finally was presented a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Tuesday.
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James' Minnesota history was mentioned in 5th installment of Lost Twin Cities. Stream anytime online and with the PBS Video App:
bit.ly/lost-twin-cities-5
A probe in the politics, people and soul of the Twin Cities, ‘Electronicle 1980’ offers a unique flashback to Minnesota with a contemporary twist on then and now.
Premieres Monday, May 16 at 8PM on TPT 2.
It might be #StarWarsDay but what about the intense FOOD WARS that happened right in the Twin Cities?
In the 1970s, a shadowy revolutionary group attempted to seize the food cooperative movement in Minnesota. Stream @thecoopwars anytime with the PBS Video App!
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Prince may have made the club famous, but many others have toiled backstage to keep this landmark standing.
Stream the full documentary "@FirstAvenue: Closer to the Stars" from @MNExperienceTPT on YouTube: youtu.be/e9ifsWfX0V8
In 1918, fires killed nearly 500 people and displaced 50,000 more. From Moose Lake to Cloquet to Duluth, every survivor marked time from that point forward as "before the fire" or "after the fire."
Watch @WDSE_WRPT's "Fires of 1918" tonight at 8PM on TPT 2.
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Odd when postcard of tornado damage that took your ancestors lives shows up on eBay. Here’s the documentary we did on the deadly storm that took my grandmother up into the cyclone. @tpt tpt.org/minnesotas-deadliest… #history @pdouglasweather
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School bus driver appreciation week is this week! We want to take a moment to thank the people who have been getting kids to schools safely since the 1920s. Take a look at some school bus photos from our collection.
ALT Bus with Minneapolis Public Schools on the side. Students looking out of bus at camera. Picture circa 1925.
ALT Students standing in front of bus in the snow.
ALT Bus labelled Wilder School District with man standing in door. Students can be seen on bus.
ALT Three students looking out window at camera.
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Tonight: Hear about the radical roots and power of youth media education in #FilmInTheCities. From @MNExperienceTPT Executive Producer Daniel Bergin with Miranda Harincar.
8PM on TPT 2 or watch with the PBS Video App!
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Explore the radical roots of youth media education in a retrospective told through reflections from founders and former students in #FilmintheCities.
NEW from @MNExperienceTPT. Coming to TPT 2 this Mon., Feb. 21 at 8PM & on the @PBS Video App!
Watch TONIGHT at 8PM on TPT LIFE!
When a man makes his living throwing a baseball, he has to be the best. When that man is an African-American from the South living in early 20th century, he has to be better than the best, he has to be John Donaldson.
Hear his story in #39Seconds tomorrow, Feb. 17 on TPT LIFE ⚾️
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This is a bird's eye view of Moorhead, Minnesota in 1882. Many bird’s eye views of cities were created around this time period to show civic pride and encourage businesses and people to settle there.
Follow a retrospective of the early ‘70s origins of youth media education through reflections from founders and former students with rare and revealing student films from a half century ago.
#FilmintheCities premieres in one week on Feb. 21 at 8PM on TPT 2 and the PBS Video App!
What key places helped shape and define St Paul's past and present?
Learn about the fascinating people, historic landmarks, and St. Paul streets in @MNExperienceTPT "St. Paul Past" anytime online and with the PBS Video App:
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Tonight! Join Producers Daniel Bergin and Miranda Harincar in the Mediatheque at @walkerartcenter for an excerpt of the new documentary, Film in the Cities: Radical Roots of Youth Media. Free, 5-9 pm → wlkr.art/RRFITC
Walk along the pavement of #Minneapolis’ seedy #GatewayDistrict in its twilight years, preserved in rare footage, memory and 21st Century reflection.
Watch Return to #SkidRow tonight at 8PM:
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