Comments on: St. Paul’s city under the city http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10753 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: adam http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10753#comment-100613 adam Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:44:49 +0000 #comment-100613 Those Tokyo pics are pretty great.<br /> <br /> <br /> And that actionsquad website makes me wish I was a bit younger and a lot less afraid of confined spaces. Those Tokyo pics are pretty great.

And that actionsquad website makes me wish I was a bit younger and a lot less afraid of confined spaces.

]]> By: Big G http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10753#comment-100576 Big G Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:43:32 +0000 #comment-100576 (*Yawn) whoopee. Another non-news story by the self-esteem journalists from the KARE bears station. (*Yawn) whoopee. Another non-news story by the self-esteem journalists from the KARE bears station.

]]> By: wayne http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10753#comment-100550 wayne Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:54:44 +0000 #comment-100550 I love g-cans! That was the first thing I thought of when I read this!<br /> <br /> The second of course was all the cool stuff at the (sadly seemingly-abandoned) <a href="http://www.actionsquad.org/">actionsquad website</a>.<br /> <br /> I wish I could hang with those folks. I love g-cans! That was the first thing I thought of when I read this!

The second of course was all the cool stuff at the (sadly seemingly-abandoned) actionsquad website.

I wish I could hang with those folks.

]]> By: noodleman http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10753#comment-100542 noodleman Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:33:15 +0000 #comment-100542 One of my neighbors is the son of a worker who was on the crew that laid St. Paul's first sewer line down Payne Ave ca. 1900. Stanley, the son, is 85. Stanley also remembers when the area around Hillcrest was still a dairy pasture (ca. 1950).<br /> <br /> Not too off-topic but Tokyo's "underground" is pretty impressive. It's a flood control system, not a sewer system, though:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/index.html" target="_blank">Tokyo Flood Control</a><br /> <br /> One of my neighbors is the son of a worker who was on the crew that laid St. Paul’s first sewer line down Payne Ave ca. 1900. Stanley, the son, is 85. Stanley also remembers when the area around Hillcrest was still a dairy pasture (ca. 1950).

Not too off-topic but Tokyo’s “underground” is pretty impressive. It’s a flood control system, not a sewer system, though:

Tokyo Flood Control

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