This column has carried stories in the past about Fradet's Fish Market in West Fargo.
Well, here's a picture of it. Or rather, what you can see of it behind that huge snowbank.
The man on top of the snowbank is Ronnie Krueger, McClusky, N.D. His wife Dorothy took the picture March 4, 1966, two days after a record-breaking snow storm hit the Upper Midwest.
The other picture shows cars in West Fargo buried in the snow after that storm.
"We lived in West Fargo at the time, and we'd go to Fradet's to buy fish every once in awhile," Ronnie writes. "It was a very good store with lots of choices."
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He says he was on the road for International Harvester at the time of the 1966 storm.
"I was stranded in Langdon, N.D., in an old hotel," he writes, "with only a lobby TV that showed nothing but reruns of the afternoon soap operas that had run on the first day of the storm, because the TV stations had all lost their networks. It was the most boring three or four days of my life.
"Trying to take naps didn't help. I didn't have a radio to listen to, either.
"And when the storm broke, I still had to stay for another day because all the roads were blocked. That was especially hard to take."
Since this column is written far ahead of publication, Neighbors can only hope Ronnie isn't digging out of a blizzard today.
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