Back Then with Tracy Briggs

Oct. 14, 1943, became known as 'Black Thursday' with devastating losses at the hands of the Nazis. Arthur Linrud of Velva, North Dakota, survived. Today his family seeks to remember those who didn't.

Simon Wenzel Melzer was one of a kind, a seemingly brilliant physician who gave all to his patients, but saved a few shots for the fowl.

What finally got me to take that long-awaited "someday" trip, haggis and all.

These days if you take a stroll down Broadway just south of Northern Pacific Avenue toward the railroad tracks, you'll pass banks, restaurants, and a place to get your dog groomed.

But 80 years ago you could see and maybe even touch evidence of the enemy.

On Sept. 21, 1943, at the height of World War II, a Japanese submarine was parked on the street just south of where the Old Broadway restaurant is now and thousands of curious folks came out to catch a glimpse.

Edna Kirby just might have been Kim Kardashian before Kim Kardashian was Kim Kardashian. Kirby was a movie actress in the 1920s but became more famous for letting people just watch her live her life.

Was she the world's first reality star?

Maybe, but whatever you call her, we know for sure that 95 years ago this month, she was delighting the gawkers right here in Fargo-Moorhead.

Greg Carlson and Katie Smith embrace the mid-century style of the orignal owners, Blaine and Virginia Amidon.

Dr. Blaine Amidon, one of the area's longest-serving OBGYNs, left an indelible mark on the community and not just in the delivery room.

Viewers' heads might have been spinning when WDAY became ABC and KVLY (then KTHI) became NBC on Aug. 22, 1983, but broadcasting in North Dakota would never be the same.

After 62 years of growth, Hans Langseth's beard was measured at 17.6 feet long - a Guinness World Record for "The Longest Natural Beard Locks ever (male)" which still stands today.