[Mpls] City Hall Flag - Not what you think...

[C Becker]

Does anyone remember the StarTribune story about the City Hall flag?

Flags whip around in the wind and tend to wear out at the ends first.  Well
the guy at the Municipal Building Commission (those are the folks who run
City Hall) would trim the scruffy strings at the end so the flags would last
longer.  Well he was also pretty cheap and would trim them until they were
square or even started becoming rectangular the other direction.  The
StarTribune apparently ran a series of pictures taken over a number of weeks
of the amazing disappearing flag atop City Hall.

This small historical flag moment brought to you by

Carol Becker
Longfellow