Comments on: You want to tear down everything old?

By: MunsingW

MunsingW — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:23:48 +0000

Re: 22nd and Lyndale S.

From everything I've read, it wasn't a lake per se, but it appears to have been a swampy lowland, and the topography drains down to it significantly from all sides.

I sometimes walk through there after a heavy rainstorm (esp. the 2200 block of Garfield, which is really the low point), and you can see all of the parked cars with high water marks up to the tops of their wheel wells. Also, the way the apartment building at 24th and Garfield (behind the laundromat) is settling, you can tell that it was built on pretty poor soil.

By: wayneloggedout

wayneloggedout — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:17:01 +0000

And whoa - I never knew about this lake at 22nd and Lyndale... is that for real?

wuh? wait, N or S?

if S, it might sorta make sense to me since there's that giant dip at lyndale/franklin

By: tara_r

tara_r — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:17:04 +0000

Hobbies include arguing about lamp-post bases and variances, playing "Olde Towne Preservationist Tycoon" video games, snorting grant money off antique mirrors, and Werther's Originals.

I think this group looks very interesting and fun, but I must say, Shitty McDivott, that made me laugh until my insides hurt.

By: mike s

mike s — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:45:50 +0000

Last night I found this crazy map of Minneapolis that Rex linked to a number of years ago. The original site is gone, but I had it an email. It's a really odd ethnic and cultural map of Minneapolis from 1935.

If I can find it when I get home, I'll put up a link -- I'm going to Triviasco, so things might get blurry.

By: ranty

ranty — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:19:12 +0000

And whoa – I never knew about this lake at 22nd and Lyndale… is that for real?

By: ranty

ranty — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:13:10 +0000

Hennepin History Museum

By: kwatt

kwatt — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:12:52 +0000

I happened across an old map online of Hennepin Avenue from like 200 years ago and since then have been fascinated by old maps. It was so cool to look out my window at Hennepin Avenue and think about how it’s been there since the Indians took Father Hennepin or w/e happened back then.

Love old maps.

By: mnspeak won't let mike_s log in

mnspeak won't let mike_s log in — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:17:14 +0000

Don't forget about the mysterious disappearance of Lake Sandy.

By: richg

richg — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:09:21 +0000

They do have online info and archives, though they’re by no means complete. The Minneapolis Library has resources online as well, with the same caveat, of course.

By: Stella from Stillwater

Stella from Stillwater — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:04:04 +0000

Where did you ever find those old maps of Mpls. from the early nineteen hundreds. Did you say they had them at the Hennepin Historical Museum. If so where is it located? and do they have maps and information available on line.