Powderhorn is a south side neighborhood consisting of a half dozen sub-neighborhoods (Whittier & Lyndale aren't considered to be Powderhorn outside of the city government since they're cut off by a highway and they share business corridors with other SW side neighborhoods). I checked out the namesake park and few commercial blocks on the east and west ends. This is an up-and-coming neighborhood which is a little hood, has a heavy Mexican presence, blue-collar roots, and a newer artsy population which has moved in recently (a coffeeshop, Mexican restaurant, and dodgy grocery store all being located next to each other sums it up). One side of E Lake St belongs to both Powderhorn and Phillips to the north, but that'll be its own thread. Over here, there are commercial intersections on a number of streets including Chicago, Bloomington, Cedar, 35th, and 38th, so when you stray off of the main drag of Lake it helps to know beforehand which clusters have what as Powderhorn is a large area, but you can pretty much walk around on any major street with a bus line and you'll stumble across something interesting. You'll notice there are some empty storefronts and quite a bit of the housing stock is modest and some of the apartment buildings look none too great, which I take as evidence that great housing stock is nowhere near as important as great businesses.

 

 

Double patty filled with ooey-gooey cheese that oozes out for just $5.50: a must for meat eaters.

 

 

Powderhorn Lake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, the smells coming from this place. If I didn't already have a juicy lucy and fries I would have stopped in for sure.

 

 

 

 

 

They serve excellent espresso at Blue Ox and this is a newer place that opened recently to give the neighborhood more vibrancy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As an added bonus they have a couple of Nintendo consoles.

 

I really appreciate all these Minneapolis photo posts. I had no idea about Powderhorn, except for its namesake park. I'm anxious to check out the Chatterbox Cafe and Mayday Cafe, when I'm up there next. We have plans to move up to MPLS next year, so all these posts are a perfect introduction to neighborhood with which I am less familiar.

Glad to see one of my many enterprises doing well ;-)

 

It seems like an active, whiter Linden.

Yup. More Hispanic too and with a lake. The homes were mostly just meh, more vinyl. That's why I didn't bother with them too much, but even though the commercial buildings are also ho-hum there's good stuff happening here, so people want to move in regardless. The black population ranges from 10% to 32% , Hispanic 16% to 45% and white 16% to %61 depending on which sub-neighborhood.

Interesting area; the commercial aspects are lively.

I've only visited Minneapolis once, but I was pleasantly surprised by the urban fabric of the city. I was expecting to get a suburban vibe, similar to Charlotte or Columbus, but I found that to not be the case. As for the actual residents there, that might be a different story. It's a place I would love to visit again, but give or take a few areas, Minneapolis felt too homogeneous/ yuppie for my likings.

Basically, it's yuppie from Downtown and SW and west. If you go east, NE, NW, due south or SE you won't find it to be very yuppie.

The park with the lake is sweet. 

 

...hipster/latino mix.  interesting.

 

 

I've only visited Minneapolis once, but I was pleasantly surprised by the urban fabric of the city. I was expecting to get a suburban vibe, similar to Charlotte or Columbus, but I found that to not be the case. As for the actual residents there, that might be a different story. It's a place I would love to visit again, but give or take a few areas, Minneapolis felt too homogeneous/ yuppie for my likings.

Same impression I got..

^ you can just imagine how generically whitebread it was before uncle sam brought in the somalis and viet/hmong before that, for example, the riverside towers were originally pj's for the swedes!

You definitely see a decent amount of Scandinavian establishments, although like 13th Ave NE there used to be more, but those places emptied out and sat vacant. Also, there was a stabbing a month ago at Cup Foods where shady characters were hanging out (a little piece of South Linden right here in case I get homesick) . Apparently, a guy into an argument with one guy hanging out there and tragically got fatally wounded over that, but a group of bystanders jumped the guy and beat him down, so yeah, the neighborhood still has its problem areas.

 

***FYI, I haven't been able to take pictures since I left my camera battery & charger to plugged in take pics of a couple of bands that were in town and decided not to since I've forgotten how to get decent low-light shots. I'll see if it's there today since they're open weekends, but I'm getting another camera anyway. Dinkytown and Como should be coming up soon: I didn't want to post a rather incomplete photo thread.

^ cool! speaking of music, see if you can find bob zimmerman/dylan's actual apt behind the old drugstore he used to busk in front of in dinkytown!

I'll be sure to get a shot with the actual apartment in view, but I'm not sure which one it would be. Funny thing is, I already randomly took pics of the buildings but not with the alley where you'd see it.

i bet if you ask around someone may know, good luck sleuthing!