You Can Have the Town
RIP Mary Tyler Moore. Reposting this seemed like the right thing to do and brought back so many happy memories. Cheers, MM
“Saw her walking thru the crystal court/she made a scene by the revolving doors…” —The Hold Steady, “Party Pit”
We motored into Navarre, Minn., in our blue-green Chevy station wagon one snowy, cold January in 1971.
She came down to Minneapolis from a town up north, with everything she owned in a white Ford Mustang.
My father would be starting a new job with the University of Minnesota.
She left her friends, family, a dead-end relationship, then landed a plum gig at WJM-TV.
I was a shy kid trying to make new friends.
And she, of course, had spunk.
How Will You Make It On Your Own?
My first memories of Minneapolis blended with a sit-com that aired on Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m.
When I was a couple years older, in 1975, my new Minnesotan friends…
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