Posted March 4, 201015 yr mpls -- a look around uptown, lake st, midtown, eat street & loring lake – enjoy it! uptown “it’s time for jazz to die, we need a purple high” -- clik for music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYF4fsj7fVc calhoun square – an early gentrifying redevelopment http://www.calhounsquare.com/ sons of norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Norway williams pub & peanut bar – most beer variety in town :drunk: http://www.thriftyhipster.com/minneapolis/uptown/williams_peanut_bar lake calhoun -- one of ten thousand :laugh: check! snowy houses around uptown hmm :wtf: next to the uptown transit center lake st converted -- i think :clap: dunn bros local coffee chain – its ok http://dunnbros.com/ blb in the daytime rows, yeah they got some midtown midtown global market http://www.midtownglobalmarket.org/ fast food somali viet scandinavian back outside still more interesting midtown ethnicity hamdi – a somali restaurant. men enter on the right…and watch cnn on tv eat street aka nicollet in the 20’s http://www.urbanspoon.com/n/29/2818/Twin-Cities/Eat-Street-restaurants jasmine 26 http://jasmine26.net/ heading thru loring park on the west side of downtown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loring_Park loring lake walker arts center sponsored bridge over the highway nice view of st marys… …and traffic! :-P old walker art center new walker art center expansion (herzog&demeuron,2005) grrrr! japanese manga robot? anyway it’s a cool view from the highway approach :wink2: shiny http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac another brushstrokes in flight, familiar to columbusites :wink: last is oldenburg’s ‘spoonbridge and cherry’ (1985) aka the symbol of minneapolis http://garden.walkerart.org/artwork.wac too bad it was kinda cloudy at that this point, ah well the locals just love this to death which brings us to the penultimate chamber of commerce shot…! :clap: *** as you can see mpls has a lot of interesting neighborhoods around downtown ***
March 5, 201015 yr I dig it. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 5, 201015 yr Could I be any more impressed with Minneapolis after these threads? I think not...
March 6, 201015 yr I don't think I have seen any pics yet (but I may have missed them) of the three lakes (I use to remember their names but cannot recall right now) which are close to uptown and the nieghborhoods surrounding them. I call them the Mary Tyler Moore lakes since they are seen in the opening credits of the show. The houses in that neigborhood are incredible (many from around the turn of the century) and all are well preserved and maintained (and they cost a pretty penny....my decorator helped with the renovation of one of them and showed me pictures (a Cleveland doctor who transfered there so he flew her up since her knew her from Cleveland)). The renovation itself was seven figures. The house which Mary Tyler Moore "lived in" is in this neighborhood. Of course it is actually a single family house, not multi-family as portrayed in the show. I have toured the neighborhood a number of times and am always impressed (although Grand and Summit streets in St Paul give it competition).
March 6, 201015 yr ^ hts is that on the other side of lake calhoun? i didn't have a car, so the only lakes i saw are the ones on this thread, calhoun and loring. anyway, wow that sounds like yet another great neighborhood to explore for sure. i kind of wish i would have done more mtm homework so i would have known about stuff like that. i only knew about the mtm statue and the crystal court. there are plenty of prince sites i missed along with grand & summit in st. paul too -- next time, right?!
March 6, 201015 yr ^Yes Lake Calhoun is one of the three lakes to whiich I was refferring and the neighborhood would be on the other side of the lake in relation to uptown if I recall correctly. It is in Minneapolis proper and what I find very interesting about this neighborhood is that in many other cities, this type of grand neighborhood (again developed in the late 1800"s up to World War II) would have be abandoned for just as grand inner ring suburbs and the then the farther suburubs. The houses still exist but are generally in deterioating neighborhoods, are in bad shape, sub-divided and over the years, as the decline began commercial, would have crept in. This did not happen in Minneaopolis and from what I can tell, excluding Edina and certain far off suburbs, it is sitll the premier address in town. I guess in Cleveland, I would compare it to what was once the neighbordhoods bordering East Blvd flowing into nothern University Circle. The houses still exist (for the most part) but, let's face it, the area is pretty devastated and low income. Many of the large mansions closer to U Circle were taken over for institutional use. In Minneapolis, this is not only still a viable neighborhood but still a priemere address
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