Downtown skyline, Minneapolis (1938) via Minnesota Historical Society

Jack Clark’s Bar and Cafe sign, Minneapolis. (1977) via Minnesota Historical Society

Thirst Things First.

Casablanca Cafe & Bar, 408 Hennepin, Minneapolis. (1945) via Minnesota Historical Society

Minneapolis skyline through the Lowry Avenue bridge via Greg Lundgren

Minneapolis Miller’s baseball team players (Ted Williams is the second player from the left) hanging out in the clubhouse before a game. (1938) via Minnesota Historical Society

Looking down Third Street South to Hennepin showing old Post Office tower, Minneapolis (1906) by Minnesota Historical Society

Spring Blizzard, Sculpture Garden by Tom Miller

Minneapolis’ East Bank stairways lead to quiet riverside solitude

The river in this part of the city can seem almost subterranean, separated and buffered from the flat, gridded, concrete expanses of southeast Minneapolis above it by sheer wooded bluffs. Descending the stairways, one gets the sense of traveling underground. The path down by the river is, on a Sunday morning, almost wholly deserted, and the roar of vehicular traffic over Franklin and 94 sound like it’s coming from some distant point overheard.

via Andy Sturdevant on MinnPost

Minnesota Zoo Snow Monkey

It’s April 11th and we’re getting a lot of fresh #snow today - good thing our snow monkeys love this weather!

via Minnesota Zoo

Belfast youngsters played in front of bombed-out buildings emblazoned with the initials of the Irish Republican Army. (image scanned by me)

This picture is from a March 1974 Minneapolis Tribune Sunday Picture article about children in Belfast coming to spend the summer in Minnesota to escape the ongoing war in Northern Ireland. The article was titled “Children of violence, children of fear.”

The program is still going strong forty years later…
http://childrensprogramofni.org/