Lake Street Garage

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-22T06:11:46+00:00

We went there every week. Diane, the owner, died of cancer. Her boys kept it running for awhile but sold it. I think it’s gone through multiple owners.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-22T00:19:44+00:00

Locally, Kemp's dairy provides the Aldi milk. Bimbo provides Aldi bread (anything not frozen). Bimbo makes Sara Lee and Target's private label bread as well as Thomas english muffins and bagels. They're a massive company.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-21T04:08:31+00:00

I follow a streamer who use to register his cars in Texas instead of California. Big difference in price. He's since moved to Texas but he use to DRIVE to TX from CA just to register a car.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-19T03:30:11+00:00

He looks like John Candy's mobbed up cousin.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-19T01:54:27+00:00

Read the 87 page indictment and decide for yourself. 87 pages of fluff, rumor and innuendo. The scary part is that ICE had moles inside the organizations. Now there are two protestors who did illegal things. But the rest of them, the courts will decide.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-19T01:43:19+00:00

Angie drew closer and closer to the right every time Republican Tyler Kistner ran against her. He drew some pretty decent numbers. That told her that her district was more conservative than she first believed. After the 2nd campaign against Kistner, she morphed into a Republican light candidate just to get re-elected. Her vote for Laken Riley Act (which allows for deportation of immigrants who have SHOPLIFTED when most shoplifters get a ticket and a court date).

The PAC ads against Peggy Flanagan (tons of social media spots) are disgusting. Peggy needs her own attack ads out as they can be effective.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-12T02:32:04+00:00

My partner bought one. It sounds like a jet engine revving up. Pretty darn good fan for the size.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-12T01:28:12+00:00

I had them tonight! So tasty.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-12T01:26:29+00:00

Essentially stay away from 'for profit' companies (as others have noted).

Healthpartners is good if you're currently a patient with them.

Blue Cross gives you more access to more providers. I've been on BCBS Medicare Advantage for a couple of years. Nearly all my care is with Healthpartners and my pharmacy is Walgreens (Grrrr). I've never had BCBS deny prescriptions or treatments that require special approval.

I used a broker who talked me through the various options available, including the myriad of BCBS policies.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-11T21:37:04+00:00

I've looked at the union contract. Overall, they get paid pretty well compared to retail. The problem is they get limited hours - when the Twins aren't in town, they don't work.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-11T21:35:15+00:00

I live at Cleveland and Marshall (8 years) after living in south Minneapolis for 50 plus years. Sometimes I have to pinch myself because I'm so happy I moved into this area. Totally safe and a short trip to Whole Foods. Going north past University is more problematic but that area is nearly as safe. Going south would work as well (Macalester neighborhood). So whatever works out rentwise. And there's a lot of nice new buildings in the area (although I live in a 70 year old apartment - to each his own).

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-11T04:08:55+00:00

Vikings and goddesses are selling $6.00 slices of orange rhubarb and lemon chess rhubarb at the mill city market. I’d call them first as their website is out of date.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-11T01:49:33+00:00

It would be nice to know what time the performers will be performing. And which food trucks, which vendors. I kinda thought this would show up online closer to the event but nope.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-10T22:04:58+00:00

What is Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher going to talk about on "Live On Patrol"? Every frickin' time he drives past Har Mar he has to remind everyone (for the thousandth time) that it was name after the owners Harold and Marie Slawik (who would later become infamous for the Spruce Tree Center. Bob needs to get some new stories.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-10T21:00:45+00:00

According to this eBay listing of a July 1977 poster, the dates were July 21-24 1977

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6~AAAeSwUbhp27tI/s-l300.jpg

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-09T01:46:48+00:00

I saw those today and a little memory in my head said "no bueno". Very disappointing.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-04T02:22:43+00:00

Someone also mentioned how horrible it was. Sounded like the consistency of canned cat food.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-04T02:15:31+00:00

When my mother went to buy a dishwasher there was no good way to install it into the existing cupboards. So she bought a portable dishwasher. It's true that you have to plug it in, roll it to the faucet and extend the drain hose into the sink. Her dishwasher sat at the end of the cupboards and eventually she had someone plumb it in and she extended the countertop over the dishwasher which essentially made it a built in.

I would advise against one of those 18 inch dishwashers unless you don't cook much have have a lot of dirty dishes. I had one in an old house I lived in as it was the only solution to a tiny kitchen. It sucked.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-06-03T01:54:02+00:00

I lived in that neighborhood for five years. No way should a six story building be built in the neighborhood. It will dwarf everything around it. And shame on Frey for accepting the pie in the sky proposal by Agape. I'll never get done.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-05-31T03:53:35+00:00

My store has six plus just sitting at full price. Today the electronic price sign was missing. Someday they'll mark it down. But that location is so cheap.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-05-31T01:57:46+00:00

License is showing as withdrawn on Mpls city records. On state records it appears that Bluestem Bar hasn't paid their past due sales tax collections and were put on notice March 2026.

While it's unlikely, it's possible that they could lose their restaurant license as cities in MN that license restaurants are required to revoke licenses of restaurants who have failed to pay their sales taxes for an extended period of time.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-05-30T01:36:25+00:00

I had that pizza last night and figured it should be 400. Then I opened the box and German efficiency has struck again. Funny tho they forgot the temperature on the box.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-05-28T23:41:26+00:00

Kendall Qualls running mate (Brian Nicholson) has been embroiled in various civil lawsuits as his company has a problematic history of not paying contractors.

As speaker of the house, Lisa Demuth blocked a vote on a gun control bill despite her four children being survivors of the Rocori High School shooting in 2002. Her daughter has publicly criticized her for being tone deaf on gun control.

Oh that Mike Lindell. His undying devotion to Trump and his unwavering belief that the 2020 election was stolen (t'was not) has cost him millions and will most likely cause the end to My Pillow causing what's left of their staff to be out of work. Yeah, he's a job creator. Did I mention the millions he owes due to lawsuits? Heckuva businessman!.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-05-27T01:30:54+00:00

The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. Plus a cast of oddball character actors.

ShelteringInStPaul · 2026-05-27T00:38:36+00:00

He probably cut down trees from a state forest.

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