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| The early days. Not exactly the most romantic or inviting place. I found this picture in the Star-Tribune archives, but it's undated. It was probably taken between 1885 and 1890, when the park was called "Central Park," and the lake was known as "Johnson Lake." (Two guesses who owned the land." In 1890 the city decided to landscape the park, and it was later named for Charles Loring, father of the Minneapolis Park system.
Note the bridge in the the left-center of the picture. You'll see it again. And you can see it today: it's still there, over a 100 years later. Why, Mary Tyler Moore hid under that very bridge . . .but we'll get to that. |
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