Gone, and z forgotten. This city chews itself up every generation, but the last thirty years have remade the city into something barely recognizable today. The scene above, for example - a rainy day on newspaper row - has completely vanished, save the tower of City Hall. (see "Postcards & Pictures for a larger view.)

It's hard not to look at these pictures and conclude that there'd been a war, and that we lost. Part of the problem was urban renewal, which scoured the city in the late 50s and 60s; what wasn't lost then was knocked to rubble during the boom of the last two decades.

These sites are 4 - 5 pages long, and have the usual mix of photos from the Strib archives, postcards from my collection.
The Old Campus
Postcards and contemporary views of the seedbed of the U.
Dinkytown
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Then-and-now shots of this small peculiar community
The most important 24-hour restaurant in the history of the world EVER
Ralph & Jerry's
Culture Center, serving the world. Coming 2003
The Mall
. Coming Summer 2003. Promise.
And don't forget . . .
On the odd chance you haven't seen this one, it's just like this site, only it's about Minneapolis today, and it's twice the size
As the name suggests.
There are more than 10,000 in the state. These are three of them. Let someone else do the other 9,997.
Post-war commercial architecture.
LILEKS.COM
This site is just a small part of the large general joy you can find at lileks.com. And by "joy" I mean "not entirely full of grim disappointment."
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