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Watch the Movie CARS over the Holidays!

How the Movie "Cars" is about Preservation and Restoration by Wood Window Makeover.com on Friday, November 26, 2010 at 9:01pm Sometimes inspiration comes when you aren't looking. My Mom and Grandmother were here from Texas for Thanksgiving Day and once the festivities ended we put on a movie - The Disney/Pixar now classic Cars. My mom had never seen it, my boys love it and I just think it contains a great message.    So this time as I watched it for probably the 100th time - I saw something new. If you've seen it you know the theme.  A hot shot race car named Lightning McQueen gets lost on his way to the other side of the country and finds new friends that change his perspective and give him a new take on life - a better take. He starts off self absorbed but discovers that relationships mean more than winning a race. Another theme though is the restoration and preservation of what is lost through progress. Lightning finds his way to an almost for...

A History of the offices and stores in the Palace Hotel

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1904 113 C.L. Bang Candy Manu 115 Edward Wood & Co. 117 Palace Hotel Saloon 117 & ½ Nat Campbell & Moeckel; Carpenter & Stenvick, Crookston Club, Hayes, R.M. Kirsch, M.D., McKinnon, Daniel, Rowe, W.D., Rowe, W.E., U.S. Land Office 119 Farley, Z.J. 121 Basset, Miss L.M. 123 Carpenter, Huggard & M 1908 117 & ½ U.S. Land Co., Clough & Caldwel, A.C. Clausen, Crookston Club, Daniel McKinnon, W.E. Rowe, Lee Sisters, Ernest Moeckel 119 Farley 121 J.E. Carpenter Land Co., City Realty Co. 123 F.B. Harris 1911 113 Miss Florence Huey 117 & ½ Palace Hotel 123 N.H. Yeo 1915 113 Mrs. M. B. Pierce 115 Carpenter Land Co. 119 Palace Hotel 123 N.H.Yeo 1930 113 Munn’s Music & Jewelry 115 Rosemary Hat & Hosiery 117 Palace Cafe 123 Regan’s Candy Shop 1935 113 Munn’s Music & Jewelry 115 Crookston Production Credit 117 The Dutch Room 120 & ½ Wayne Hotel 121 Northwestern Bell 123 Christines Beauty Service 1940 113 Chas. A. Mun...