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Old Posted Apr 12, 2021, 12:00 PM
MplsTodd MplsTodd is offline
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Thanks for your comments! Glad you enjoyed the photos, I’ll post a ‘90s set too.
Chef: Yes, Hennepin Avenue was an adventure. I especially remember Block E: checking out records at The Wax Museum, having a cheap, but filling dinner at ‘Best’ Steak House, browsing magazines at Shinders and having a drink or two at Moby’s. Definitely a center of nefarious activity, but didn’t seem dangerous.

CraigS: the Minneapolis skyline in the mid ‘70s was completely lopsided as there was nothing close in size & scale to the IDS Tower. But Downtown Minneapolis boomed continuously between 1978 and the early ‘90s. It started when Pillsbury opted to anchor a two tower office development by Hines in 1978. Pretty much from then through 1992 (when four towers were completed—FirstBank Place, LaSalle Plaza, Dain Rauscher, and AT&T Tower), the office boom was continuous. Another boom happened in the late ‘90s early 2000’s. Dt St. Paul did grow in the ‘80s (Town Square, Galtier Plaza And World Trade Center (now Wells Fargo)), but employment base was much smaller than Mpls.
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