In the 1980s I worked in this building, the Pinehurst office building at 1424 West Century Avenue. Who cares, right? Well, the oddity about this building is that it wasn't even near Century Avenue at the time. West Century Avenue continued straight westward from Washington, eventually intersecting with Tyler Parkway. Clydesdale Drive, the street that the Pinehurst building actually sat on, continued due south to intersect behind Country West Conoco (at that time the Truck Plaza 35 truck stop).
A call to the City of Bismarck's engineering department confirmed that the plan for Century Avenue was to divert it south around the water tower hill; yet it followed the section line to the north of the hill until such time as city growth warranted the new road, which now curves south of the water tower hill. It turns out their planning was very wise, because that's where the bulk of the new "big box" stores have popped up recently. Can you imagine if all that traffic had to go up that hill and back around through the neighborhoods in the Tyler Parkway area? What a mess!
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The water's pretty high at Fox Island. And frozen too.
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( 3 / 415 )For any of you who have used the facilities that Mandan High has for track & field or football, this should be good news. They're going to build some locker rooms and sports medicine rooms at the facility and give it an overhaul.
The locker rooms in that field were...well, let's leave it at that. It's good to see the improvements on the way.
"Lefty" Faris was a long time Athletic Director for Mandan. I met him back when I was in high school, and he passed away my junior year. The field was named in his honor a short time later.
In 1987 the kids painted the Braves logo you see on the back of the facility. I resurrected a grainy picture:
It'll be good to see the facility once it's completed!
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( 3.1 / 464 )I got the opportunity to ride my boss' 240 horsepower turbo Yamaha RX-1 snowmobile last night. It's got to be the scariest ride I've ever had!
I've ridden motorcycles and ATVs since I was 5, and raced motorcycles at speeds up into the 185mph range...but this thing is SICK! Talk about acceleration! Snowmobiles don't suffer from the same traction and/or wheelie problems that sportbikes do -- they just go forward really fast. Well, doing fast on the track or highway is one thing, but going this fast on a wooded trail is just plain freaky.
On a side note, it's nice to actually HAVE snow to ride them on this time of year. The past few have been pretty sketchy. But snowmobiles scare me anyway. I'd rather ice race my dirt bike with spiked tires!
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Well, we're off and running! Hopefully this is the start of something useful. I plan to highlight upcoming events, relevant news and/or minutiae from the Bismarck-Mandan area, and perhaps be a source of information for people who have moved away but still enjoy knowing what's happening in our fair cities.
Enjoy!
Clint
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