Minneapolis vintage; The return of Girlettes!

I've been saving vintage Minneapolis/Minnesota oddments donated to the thrift store for a long while. 
Yesterday I started to photograph them (in the parking lot).

BELOW: 

• Cloth & felt Doll, 1952 Minnesota State Fair entry
• Cedar box with painting of Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis
• Box mailed to Warner Hardware (1882–1989)

 BELOW

•  Little Green Sprout, introduced in 1972 as the young friend of the Jolly Green Giant, mascot of a canned-vegetables brand
• Bridgeman Ice Cream menu--handwritten inside, the special is a Strawberry and Chocolate Sundae, 68¢

BELOW

• Girl in goat cart with license plate Minneapolis, 1926
• Swedish Rosette & Timbale set, by Northland Aluminum, Minneapolis--better known as Nordic Ware, which still makes them
• Mrs. Stewart's Bluing, made in Minnesota since 1883 (and still today)  hennepinhistory.org/mrs-stewarts-bluing
• Blue box from Young-Quinlan (1925–1985) 

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AND a bit of contemporary history, from the City of Minneapolis:
 The City did not make any deals with the feds to end the ICE surge and remains committed to our separation ordinance (not to help ICE):

                       

                       So, that's nice.

People compare ICE to all sorts of things--the Klan, the Gestapo, etc. 
It came to me that they are like slave catchers in the US before the Civil War. Slave catchers hunted down enslaved people who'd escaped to free states and returned them to their enslavers for bounty money.

This was not only legal, you know, but the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required citizens and law enforcement in the Northern United States to assist slave catchers. 

ABOVE: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) as Harriet Tubman in the movie Harriet (2019). Slave catchers feature in her story--including a Black man. Like there are Hispanic ICE agents, there were Black slave catchers, though they were the minority.

Minneapolis continuing to refuse to cooperate with ICE enforcement is like refusing to cooperate with the Fugitive Slave Act.
History confirms that this is a good idea. Not that we doubted it.
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The Girlettes are back! 

They don't give a fig about human goings-on, but they say that we have been "off the charts" for the past 75+ days, so they've been amusing themselves. (I don't know what.)
They are perfectly fine without us.

Marz, however, requested a picture of a troubled toy. 
The Girlettes are never troubled, but Celluloid Parrot, below, looks troubled, here in Chuck's school photo. Or, maybe not so much troubled as dubious? 
At any rate, Marz said the picture hit the spot. 

(I did wash Chuck's face before she went to school, but it's hopeless.)

This is also a picture of how I feel: 
So happy! . . . And disturbed. The city rallied nicely, but that was certainly a vivid display of human stupidity, cruelty, and destructiveness. 
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What was it I was doing before All This?
Oh, yes. Making shako hats for the Girlettes marching band. 

Next up: A parade to welcome spring--or, if I could get it together in time, the Lunar New Year, celebrated February 17–27.

New energy, yes, please:
Bring on the Fire Horse!