Yeah I know it’s Tuesday…
Cool old bike maps from the 70s courtesy of the Hennepin County Library:
See the rest, including some cool kitschy cover art, over at their Tumblr.
Yeah I know it’s Tuesday…
Cool old bike maps from the 70s courtesy of the Hennepin County Library:
See the rest, including some cool kitschy cover art, over at their Tumblr.
IIRC, I have some of the late 1980s or early 1990s editions in my collection. Will have to check when I get home.
There’s a lotta brown (“unsatisfactory”) in North. Wait… where’s I94?
Wasn’t completed until 1982.
That fact is nuts! Imagine a northside without a massive freeway messing it up.
I would disagree with that statement. Most of 94 North was built as a buffer between the residential neighborhoods to the west and what was then and still largely is industrial area along the river.
This shot from 1957 looks like a pretty nice neighborhood from above. Yes, industrial line(d) the river, but streets connected well with it and had nice transition in many spots from industrial to lighter/smaller industry surrounded by commercial/mixed-use to residential. Compare that to today.