Being a Minnesotan, I'm VERY proud of the Minnesota Historical Society website and the cool searchable photos they have online. Click the link and search "Morrison"--among the photos that come up, you'll find maybe 40 of them with "unidentified Morrison Co businesses", mostly interior shots taken in 1925.
Since Larry and I are trying to 're-construct' Buckman in about 1919, we were particularly interested in those photos, and I believe I've FOUND a few from inside Brandl Motors!
Let me show you:
For one thing, doesn't the man at the desk (left) look like a Brandl? That was my first impression, but we figured it was wishful thinking...lol We did see that both pictures were the same office, so we saved them for closer inspection......
Now, LOOK at the shelves behind John and Joe here, five years later...and at the double row of white tabbed drawers above the desk, and the invoice box above that. Theres a phone in all of them, and glass on the desk top, the shelves behind 'em are the same, and the post has a poster in all three pics!
Ah, you say, but the top two pics have a stove behind the men, where there's a stack of tires in front of the brothers. Yes! I found out lately that it was a common practice to remove the stove during the summer, in homes as well as businesses. Such wasted space could be better used in other ways, at least part of the year.
YAY!! Anon emailed to say WHO the men were in these photos: above, John Brandl seated; standing behind him left to right: Bill Gohl, Tony Sand, Hank Poster.
Anon said the seated man here is Bill Gohl, then left to right behind him: Hank Poster, George Poster, "unknown", Bill Weisbrick, John Brausen, and Tony Sand.
Isn't this just COOL?
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BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
THIS photo was identified by whoever took the pictures in 1925...so we KNOW it was Brandl Motors, right?
See the man in bibs? (Bill Weisbrich). And the one with the dark shirt and cap? (Hank Poster). The one in coveralls (John Brausen) is back by the post, and the guy with his fist on his hip is definitely the same man in both pics (Tony Sand). That's John, with the tie and pork-pie hat, for sure. (And SUE just emailed to say the man to John's right was Andrew Suess, retired, who just liked hanging around the garage). Don't know who those last two men were, tho. Oh, MAN, this tickles me!!
