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Sunday December 28th 2025
“Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos”. So Bad its Good
BY SUE HUNTER WEIR
Wow! I think that everyone who attended “Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos” would agree that their reaction was “Wow!” One thing”'s for sure, you won”'t see a movie like this one every day. It was quite possibly one of the worst and funniest movies ever made. Local wrestler, Spider Baby, gave a stirring introduction, and a handful of diehard fans came wearing their Santo and Blue Demon masks which helped to get all of us into the spirit of the thing.
Superhero “Santo” and his best friend “The Blue Demon” had to battle the bad guys, and there were a lot of them: Frankenstein, a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf and the cheesiest-looking Cyclops ever to walk the earth. The bad guys messed up when they kidnapped our hero”'s girlfriend (you have to picture Frankenstein driving a getaway car). And even though the bad guys had created an evil duplicate of the Blue Demon, it didn”'t take long for Santo to sort out who his true friend was.… Read the rest ““Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos”. So Bad its Good”
“The Tribune and I Swat the Fly”
”¢ Dr. Holl was born in New Ulm on August 19, 1862–on the very day that the Dakota Conflict came to New Ulm. His mother must have been in labor during the battle.
Ӣ Newspapers always spelled his name Hall that people would know how to pronounce it and it made him sound a little more American.
”¢ Dr. Holl was voted out of his post by the city council in 1913 despite a letter of support signed by more than 100 doctors in the city. While in private practice for the next five years he wrote an informative daily column on health and medicine, “Health and Happiness,” for the Minneapolis Tribune.
”¢ In 1918 he accepted the post of superintendent of Minnesota”'s Ah-Gwah-Ching Tuberculosis Sanitorium near Walker. He remained in that position until his death in 1928.
”¢ He was an amazing, if somewhat eccentric, man. He and Annie only had one daughter and she died in infancy–the baby is buried in Layman”'s. Peter and Annie are at Hillside with other members of his family.
Dr. Peter Holl was a man of rock-solid opinions and an all-consuming commitment to improving public health. In addition to being one of the shakers and movers who helped save Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in the 1920s, he served for a number of years as Minneapolis”' Health Commissioner where he supervised the city-wide vaccination of school children, placed people with smallpox in quarantine, monitored the municipal water supply and tested the city”'s lakes to make sure that they were safe to swim in.… Read the rest ““The Tribune and I Swat the Fly””
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