News Cut: July 7, 2012 Archive

Happy industrial park day!

Posted at 3:15 PM on July 7, 2012 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Regional history

The big doings today are in Lakeville, which is holding its annual Pan-O-Prog celebration. The event, a local told me, started as a celebration years ago of the opening of the city's industrial park south of the main drag.

Pan-O-Prog stands for Panorama of Progress, and nothing says progress like a Main Street full of 1950s-era hot rods and a B-25 bomber at the airport giving rides.

From what we can tell by the crowd on the sidewalks, the Pan-O-Prog parade is quite a big deal. There aren't actually people lined up, just an interesting assortment of chairs and contraptions which say "this space is mine."

I doubt this is a uniquely Minnesota thing, though I admit this staking out of turf hours in advance seems to be taken to new heights here.

The duct-taping-of-the blanket is an interesting way to do it...

Congratulations on your progress, Lakeville!

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