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Beneath the asbestos shingles, and beneath a layer of cedar shakes behind that, Todd Johnson found something unexpected covering his 1881 house: Old hand-painted signs. It seems that boards that were painted signs on even older buildings were recycled when Johnson's Holly Avenue house was built. We talk to Johnson and Jim Sazevich, a St. Paul historian, about this recycled bit of St. Paul history and where those hand-painted boards might have come from.
Photojournalist Glen Stubbe has been chief political photographer for the Star Tribune since 2011 and was business photographer and photo editor before that. He was named Visual MN Photographer of the Year twice in a row, first in 2015, and then combined 2016-2017.
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