Matt Bergstrom
@mattbergstrom.bsky.social
Chicago architecture and history, papercraft and postcards - https://www.wurlington-bros.com/
60 years ago today, 10-year-old William Blasio stole a motor boat from the dock below Marina City with a plan to return to Ohio where his family had once lived. Hard to imagine heading out on Lake Michigan if the weather was wintry like today!
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
60 years ago today, 10-year-old William Blasio stole a motor boat from the dock below Marina City with a plan to return to Ohio where his family had once lived. Hard to imagine heading out on Lake Michigan if the weather was wintry like today!
120 years ago today, the terrible Mataafa Storm began, sinking more than 20 ships on Lake Superior and leading to the construction of Split Rock Lighthouse to make shipping safer on the lake
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
120 years ago today, the terrible Mataafa Storm began, sinking more than 20 ships on Lake Superior and leading to the construction of Split Rock Lighthouse to make shipping safer on the lake
Lots of new additions to the Stone Faces Gazetteer tracking locations of anthropomorphic rocks around the world: www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Faces/index....
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Lots of new additions to the Stone Faces Gazetteer tracking locations of anthropomorphic rocks around the world: www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Faces/index....
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The Chicago Plan Commission approved a proposal Thursday by DePaul University to build a $42 million basketball practice facility in the heart of its Lincoln Park campus, a controversial plan that will require demolishing a row of century-old residential buildings.
Plan Commission approves DePaul’s controversial plan for Lincoln Park athletic facility
University officials told commission members DePaul’s lack of modern practice courts makes it hard to compete for athletic talent with schools in the Big East Conference.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Cardboard 2-flat miniature spotted at Project Onward’s cardboard show. Love the little butterflies!
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cardboard 2-flat miniature spotted at Project Onward’s cardboard show. Love the little butterflies!
All of Manhattan made of balsa wood and styrofoam
Trucker's viral scale model of every NYC building to get official showing gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
Trucker's viral scale model of every NYC building to get official showing
Joe Macken's Museum of the City of New York exhibit is over 20 years in the making.
gothamist.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All of Manhattan made of balsa wood and styrofoam
Missed this anniversary yesterday: On Nov 18, 1755, an earthquake hit Boston, knocking down the iconic grasshopper weathervane off Faneuil Hall
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Missed this anniversary yesterday: On Nov 18, 1755, an earthquake hit Boston, knocking down the iconic grasshopper weathervane off Faneuil Hall
Miniature room sculpture by artist Itzi Licona at Intuit Art Museum
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Miniature room sculpture by artist Itzi Licona at Intuit Art Museum
Last warm day till spring in Humboldt Park
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Last warm day till spring in Humboldt Park
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#OnThisDay Nov 8, 1898: The Kensington Runestone is "discovered" on Olof Ohman's farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Its engravings tell of Vikings who traveled here in 1362. Scholarly consensus classifies it as a hoax, but there remain true believers convinced the stone is authentic.
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#OnThisDay Nov 8, 1898: The Kensington Runestone is "discovered" on Olof Ohman's farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Its engravings tell of Vikings who traveled here in 1362. Scholarly consensus classifies it as a hoax, but there remain true believers convinced the stone is authentic.
On this day in 1910, excavation began for the 792-foot Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
On this day in 1910, excavation began for the 792-foot Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
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October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
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was wondering why all the honeycrisps we bought the past two years, even from the fancy local grocer, were mushy, mealy messes and i guess this is a legitimate thing, unfortunately
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety.
www.seriouseats.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
was wondering why all the honeycrisps we bought the past two years, even from the fancy local grocer, were mushy, mealy messes and i guess this is a legitimate thing, unfortunately
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
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My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
A silly little papercraft project I designed for this weekend's upcoming International Paper Modelers Convention in Sterling, VA. Print one and build it at: ipmc-info.org/free.html
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A silly little papercraft project I designed for this weekend's upcoming International Paper Modelers Convention in Sterling, VA. Print one and build it at: ipmc-info.org/free.html
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In stunning development, sinking of Titanic no longer world’s largest metaphor
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In stunning development, sinking of Titanic no longer world’s largest metaphor
Out on the street among hundreds of thousands marching for Liberty #papercraft #papermodel #statueofliberty #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Out on the street among hundreds of thousands marching for Liberty #papercraft #papermodel #statueofliberty #nokings
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A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
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“There’s no indication that Vance has divested from AcreTrader, and there’s every indication that that investment remains in place.”
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.
The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“There’s no indication that Vance has divested from AcreTrader, and there’s every indication that that investment remains in place.”
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
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#OnThisDay Oct 8, 1956: Southdale, the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the world, opens in Edina, Minnesota. Architect Victor Gruen, later realizing his invention had not lived up to his utopian vision of a car-free public square, became the biggest critic of malls until his death in 1980.
October 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#OnThisDay Oct 8, 1956: Southdale, the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the world, opens in Edina, Minnesota. Architect Victor Gruen, later realizing his invention had not lived up to his utopian vision of a car-free public square, became the biggest critic of malls until his death in 1980.
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a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
defector.com/treasury-dep...
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Here is how the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in Charles M. Schulz's hometown newspaper, The Minneapolis Star, 75 years ago today, Oct. 2, 1950. With an accompanying introductory article but missing one panel of the strip.
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here is how the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in Charles M. Schulz's hometown newspaper, The Minneapolis Star, 75 years ago today, Oct. 2, 1950. With an accompanying introductory article but missing one panel of the strip.