Madison has a Walmart downtown! Or so appears to be the Christmas wish of the Farmers Insurance folks, who decorated their Egan Avenue storefront with this cheery display of Christmas miniatures, complete with a trees, an ice-skating pond, and Karl Mundt’s old car roaring by the Walmart Madison would’ve gotten if the city fathers would have supported his I-29 plan:
Cool bonus feature: that little Walmart opens, and inside you find figurines of half of Madison’s population getting its weekly groceries on Marion Road!
This display gets extra points for including a bowling alley, the sort of recreational destination that would help make downtown Madison a family and visitor mecca. But come on, Farmers Insurance! Surely you could have found more local boostery kitsch:
Or if we really want to look to the future, skip any miniature retail shop and just hang little replicas of the Amazon Rudolph drones that will someday soon bring us all our Christmas goodies… and Easter treats, and Fourth of July decorations, and weekly groceries….
Karl Mundt. Who can forget that great South Dakota commie fighter. Mundt holds the record for longest time serving in the senate while in a coma. Thune is on target to beat that record.
As a little kid when I first heard his name I thought it was either Mutt or Mudd and I’d giggle uncontrollably.
I remember going to Saturday matinee movies as a kid at the downtown Madison movie theater right next to the Red Owl, before they burned down. :-(
I didn’t go to my first movie until they put up the West Twin on the edge of town (first movie: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century). I love Aberdeen’s downtown cinema—best place in town to see a movie.
It will always be just a dream with” madison mafia” making sure their horse always wins the race stuffing dollars in to rhe campaigning of who ever they can best control look at youngberg backed by prostrello, delon, reinike,and lets not forget poppa inlaw who works for poet just to name a few while the rest of us scrape by until we get a day off so we can go to walmart for our grocery needs ! Having to pay for sitters and fuel for the privlage we should be alowed in madison! Insted we are forced to spend $4 a gal for milk unless its milk Monday when we get to only pay like $1 extra a gal
Cory – I don’t remember what my first movie was there, but it was probably either one of the Benji or Godzilla movies. They used to show double features of them both all the time on Saturday mornings. I do remember King Kong (1976) was my first “night” movie I went to there. It was also where I first saw Star Wars. I can still remember going to the scene with my dad in his squad car as the Red Owl burned in September 1977. The theater was right next door and was damaged beyond repair from the smoke and the fire. I don’t know why they didn’t rebuild at that site.