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All the buildings are looking very old but still its beauty maintained.

The City of Minneapolis Archives recently started a Flickr account. The photos are incredible. I particularly recommend the riverfront album.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mplsarchives/albums

Awesome. This photo is great. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mplsarchi ... 791618490/ Look at the carriage house for Florence Court & the shanties up and down the bluffs. The building at center-right is Sanford Hall at the U of M.

The video of driving north on 35w circa 1966 is incredible. Wow!

1908:

Nice catch!

E.G. Walton (a huge real estate developer, minor local celebrity) was a bit presumptuous. Took until about 1925.

My grandpa gave this to me on Sunday. Haven't had a chance to scan it yet!

WP_20151013_011 by grant.simons, on Flickr

If anyone has a picture of the Lakewood Building at 50 9th St S before the renovation, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Says it's built in 1928 and renovated in mid 80s. And now it's, in my opinion, one of the ugliest buildings in our downtown.

I do! That was the Minnesota theater!

Woah... I just looked it up and it is beautiful! It's a huge shame that it's gone

It's really an auxiliary shopfront building that fronted the main theater auditorium. It was the home of WCCO Television and was expanded and modernized in the 50s. When the theater was demolished, the old Radio City entrance was incorporated into the Lakeland building while the auditorium was replaced with a parking ramp and office.




I think Lileks noticed that the facade of the theater entrance, or perhaps at least one of the grand windows remains behind the stucco on the corner of Lasalle & Ninth.

Jesus.. look at all those f*ing parking lots.. This is why I hate the nostalgia of groups like "Old Minneapolis." Just because you were young and dt in the 70s doesn't mean it was better back then. You are just nostalgic for your youth. DT is considerably better today and getting more so every month. Safer too.

Wow, that is some extensive surface parking.

They ruined Marquette Plaza with the renovation, though.

Wow, that is some extensive surface parking.

They ruined Marquette Plaza with the renovation, though.

It looks like it was bombed out, imagine the cars as debris. Interesting to see the Nicollet Hotel. I didn't realize until recently that it was only demolished in 1990. I always thought it was knocked down in the 1960s with everything else in the Gateway.

Argh, those are pre-Metrodome and pre-394! God what those two projects did to the grid. Ugh.

Anyone know what corner this is? Seems to have a theater behind it.

Also, are there any legitimate Coney Island joints in Minneapolis? We need more Coney Island joints.

It's solera... Hennepin and 9th,you can see the Orpheum in the back.

We need more Coney Island joints.

Finally, something that Matt and I can unequivocally agree on.

Bullwinkle's used to make a very good Coney. But now, I've got nothing.