North of 1st Avenue (highway 74), west of Brown Avenue (highway 10), south of highway 6 (Senator Carl T. Curtis Drive)
Total for today : 22,230 steps and 4:50 time.
Jennifer & I came to Minden for a few days for my Mom & Dad’s 62nd wedding anniversary. Had beautiful weather for the trip and for walking.
Boy, I took a lot of pictures today. A good number of them were from my old schools, which are all in this area. That’s elementary from 4th grade on, junior high (middle school to you young whippersnappers), and high school, So I’m going to add a second blog to today’s walk, covering only the schools. It probably won’t be as interesting to somebody who didn’t go to school in Minden, so feel free to skip it if you so desire.
Carl T. Curtis served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for a LONG time…. a congressman since 1939, and then senator from 1954 to 1979 (which is basically the entire time I lived in Nebraska.. I was born in 1954 and moved to Missouri in 1977). So the section of highway 6 that passes through Minden has apparently been named after him.
I didn’t realize he was actually born on a farm near Minden…
Carl T. Curtis wiki
A couple of general observations from my walk…
there’s a lot of team spirit on display in town… both for the Minden Whippets and for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Halloween displays and the family name markers sometime even throw in some team spirit…
Halloween view # 1 (with whippets)
Halloween view # 2 (with huskers)
2) people are more lax about their dogs running around loose. But the dogs I saw out loose seemed fairly non-threatening.
fortunately this dog was tied up… he was a little threatening!
WEST MINDEN ESTATES
This part of town wasn’t there when I lived here 40 years ago…
Nice Minden West Estates sign
dilapidated Minden West Estates sign (or is it West Minden Estates?)
Nice house in Minden West Estates
yard decor
Evangelical Free Church
care for your pet (grooming services discontinued)
care for your mower
old building
view to the west
view to the north
Fuzzy due to lack of light early in the morning
Fuzzy due to lack of light early in the morning
Fuzzy due to lack of light early in the morning
Fuzzy due to lack of light early in the morning
Second Minden water tower
round bale
passed snake
unfortunate squirrel
Minden Lumber & Concrete # 1
Minden Lumber & Concrete # 2
Minden Lumber & Concrete # 3
Claussen home
turtle & frog
friendly cat
hard to see, but windmill, slide, and merry-go-round
north of highway 6… used to be the roller skating rink
M (for Minden?)
home railroad crossing
Husker family
interesting architecture
birdhouse towering over 3 basketball hoops
more interesting architecture
Frankenstein’s monster
painted pumpkins
triangular curb rocks & hydrant
doing a handstand
multi-colored pumpkins
two spinners
Old mansion along Brown Ave. # 1
Old mansion along Brown Ave. # 2
Old mansion along Brown Ave. # 3
Old mansion along Brown Ave. # 4
pensive stump-face at Grandma’s Place
sidewalk upheaval
more Halloween
front door to the left, relax on porch to the right
conical
grinder & husker
license plate wind vane
license plate fence
a Husker fan for a long time…per
hot peppers
subterranean house
Casey’s
Cenex
package; kids with wagon
washing machine planter
tire swing
corrugated roof
old shed (with cool colorful camera glare at bottom middle of photo — what caused that?)
wild Minden # 1 — tree fallen across road
wild Minden # 2 — mound of dirt
wild Minden # 3 — 6th and Burk
Halloween house
yard art
yard art close-up (Air Mail)
exchanging glances
back yard angel
angel (or fairy?) in a bucket
more exchanging glances
rock bird waterer
momma barn and baby barn
… the end of the train
the signs need repainted
used to be the ice cream stand (Dairy King, was it?)
grain elevators