Semi-Frozen Falls

Photo submission by NJC of the Minnehaha Falls taken in March of 2010. During the winter months, the falls can completely freeze over, but this is well into the normal thaw and what remained of the ice in March. Oddly enough, I was told the gentleman without the shirt was swimming in the frigid waters. Only in Minnesota....

Not Quite The Boardwalk

The peer along the Mississippi River as it trails around the bend.

After The Gold Rush

The sign simply says 'The Rush'. The Rush is now closed, has been for several years now. I believe it was due to not paying taxes, but I don't recall the details. I've never been able to get a night shot of the sign for this very reason, bummer.

This sign has changed over the years. From my earliest findings, it was a skating rink under the Cheap Skate chain. As times changed, the skating rink was sold and the building became a night club called 'After The Gold Rush'. The locals generally called it 'The Gold Rush'. It remained this name for many years until Country became very popular in the Twin Cities. The name and format changed and became known as "Rodeo", you guessed it, it was now a cowboy bar. Or at least they tried. Several more years pass, the country craze started to simmer around here and the business went elsewhere. So the format had to change again, plus the name didn't quite fit any longer so it reverted back to something sort of familiar, thus "The Rush". As I've mentioned, The Rush has closed and the building sits vacant. I just wish I could capture it lit up one of these nights.

Twin Cities Camera Repair

The other day I took on my second camera repair job. This time it was the camera of long time contributor swc. His LCD screen had cracked and at times would become blank. The first camera repair job I did was my own camera. I had completely cracked the screen and it was useless. So I took on this new job with a bit of experience, but still nervous since it wasn't my own camera this time.

It took me a bit to figure out all of the screws that needed to come out to allow the shell to be removed. Once I figured that out, it was a piece of cake. Getting there was a battle.

   
All in all, it was a three hour repair job. I can put another notch in my camera repair belt as the job was a success.

Overloaded Pallets

On my way to work the other day, midway through Newport and pull in behind the truck you see in the photo. It was driving a bit slower than the traffic was moving, but I was just about at my ramp to go from Highway 61 to Highway 494, so I slowed down and followed along behind the truck. I noticed the high stack of pallets, how could you miss them? Started looking it over a bit closer, there was straps keeping them in place and they were still attached, I was safe.

So we finally make it to the ramp, which takes a very long, long curve before connecting with 494. Let me tell you, what I saw next scared the bejesus out of me. Picture this stack of pallets, truck driving around a curve, now picture two of the wheels nearly leaving the ground! I swear the truck was going to tip over. There was three or four times, during the curve, the tipping of the truck, the lean of the pallets, I was nervous as one could be. The photo doesn't do it justice unfortunately. The truck did make it around the ramp and onto 494 and a straight path. That was when I decided I needed to take a photo for the blog.

La Guadalupana

I was sitting at the light where George Street, State Street and Concord Avenue all meet together. I was sitting at a light that I normally don't drive on and realized how large of a sign La Guadalupana really has. That font is massive! Anyway, this grocery store can be found in St Paul's West Side neighborhood. It's located on Cesar Chavez Street [old Concord Avenue].

Turned To Stone

A little more from the Robert Street Bridge. Most of the piers on the bridge, near the top, there is a decorative emblem of some sort or another. They are not all faces like this one shows, I guess I haven't really gotten close enough to take a good photo of the detail before. I do know some of the piers have emblems, as I barely captured one in a photo I took back in 2006 which can be seen here. What do all these symbols represent, my very brief search found nothing.

Under The Bridge

Standing under the biggest arch of the Robert Street Bridge in St Paul.

The blog is back up and running. After doing some more reading, I found some information that got me in the right direction to get the blog back up and running 100%. Still haven't heard anything from my trouble ticket I sent into blogger, but hey, I am good now and they can close the case.

Blog Migration In Progress

Well, so far the blog migration has not gone as expected. I've lost all of the links to my photos, as I'm sure you can see, but I do have trouble ticket into blogger.

My son captured this photo, it was taken somewhere around the Minneahaha Falls. I'm not quite sure what the purpose of the outhouse looking building is, but I did notice the door is secured with two slide bolts and two heavy duty pad locks.

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