Embers Billboard, 1972
Unlike many Embers billboards of the 1970s era, this one was configured right-side-up instead of upside-down. (The Embers folks apparently believed that flipped billboards caught the eye. They were right.) This particular Embers—the Richfield version—is now a Mexican restaurant called Andale Taqueria y Mercado.
Photo via Minnesota Historical Society
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You mean it wasn’t Ewpouz all along?
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place every day. There’s a similar-looking old...in West St. Paul, which is also
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