Thanks for all the comments everybody! I've been busy for the last week so I didn't have time for a detailed response until now.
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Originally Posted by Nomad9
The new Vikings stadium looks enormous. Great pictures!
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It is going to be visible from a lot of the city, and will become a significant part of the skyline, extending it to the east.
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Originally Posted by Danny
Thanks for the tour, Chef!
MSP is an attractive city in all senses. I like your pictures about life on the streets.
I am up-to-date Winter has arrived very strong this year to Minnesota. I see today you´re living a very cold temperatures in the city.
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It is definitely full on winter here. It is raining today but it is the first time it has been above freezing since the snow came. Winter started about a month early this year.
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Originally Posted by mrnyc
minnyminnyminny
my oh my how the times have changed you...
9th & Hennepin
as written by Tom Waits
Well it's Ninth and Hennepin
All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
And the steam comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow...
And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
And everyone is behaving like dogs
And the horses are coming down Violin Road
And Dutch is dead on his feet
And all the rooms they smell like diesel
And you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I'm lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat
And no one brings anything small into a bar around here
They all started out with bad directions
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
One for every year he's away, she said
Such a crumbling beauty, ah
There's nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't fix
She has that razor sadness that only gets worse
With the clang and the thunder of the Southern Pacific going by
And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
Til you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
And you spill out over the side to anyone who will listen
And I've seen it all, I've seen it all
Through the yellow windows of the evening train
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I actually used that song for the intro to a thread I did last year. That version of Minneapolis is what drew me to moving here. It still exists but you have to go looking for it, it used to be everywhere. In the '80s, Hennepin Ave was the Midwestern doppelganger of the old Times Square, it was a pretty intense place. The second to last and third to last photos in this thread are of the last one block fragment of it that is still like the street that Waits was writing about (the one with Augies, the Brass Rail, Wabasha Adult Boutique, and the Gay '90s).
Anyway here is the thread I posted last year:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=209027
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Originally Posted by subterranean
One of the great American cities. Thanks for sharing.
Question: I had a friend who moved to Minneapolis a couple of years ago, but she moved back, citing that the region is very tight and not as welcoming to outsiders. She also noted that no one wants to talk about race issues, that it's a very uncomfortable topic to broach (something that is very much in-your-face here in Michigan). Curious anyone's take on this, if any of it holds water?
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I think the Twin Cities are more segmented than most metros, so your experience in it depends on where in it you land, where you work and who you meet. The version your friend is describing definitely exists. It is most common in the outer suburbs and exurbs out in Michele Bachman country. I think if you worked in an office and/or lived in the suburbs that would be your impression of the cities. On the other hand, I'm a transplant and I've never had any trouble meeting people. Working in restaurants, I've always been in racially mixed environments, and people have never been shy about talking about racial issues, which the Twin Cities definitely have (as does every other place in America).
There is a subgroup of people in the Twin Cities that is really bad a communication in general, it tends to be the older, white, middle class, old guard native Minnesotans. I think it is a Scandinavian thing. They have significantly less of a presence in the central cities and inner suburbs.
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Originally Posted by MisterLee21
I need confirmation here, is Downtown Minneapolis always this busy? And at night? And is Minneapolis clean in general? I mean the streets and alleys and all that, it looks pretty clean from the pictures, but I wanna be sure, so anyone?
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That is what downtown is like at night on the weekends when it is warm. Actually if it is one of the first warm weekend nights in the spring and the Twins are playing at home it is much, much busier. In the winter there are fewer people on the street but just as many in the clubs and bars.
In general Minneapolis is a clean city.
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