Prospect Park Train Yard, Mpls...

This is more like a train graveyard with an overwhelming selection of big rusty painted things:









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Hwy 12, MN

Munich? No, Montrose! Ok, it's not that exciting, but it does have a great german restaurant...mmm, Spaten:


Aloisius:


Almost Oktoberfest:


OK, I usually vote no on this very contrived shot, but it was a mini road trip and w/ the rain it looked alright:


On to Darwin, home to the world's largest ball of twine rolled by a single person:



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Uptown, Mpls

For a change of scenery I wandered down Hennepin instead of Lyndale, which usually scares me what with the yuppies and the Gap and the American Eagle and the "fun" bars like Drink...on the way I found this good stencil of Dawson on the sidewalk:


And this neo-hippie van:


And this great rabbit stencil:


My favs are over on Flickr, but I did like this stickers with the backdrop of the really colorful Lathrop Paint building:


These big containers of grease were behind Antoine's (inspite of this, I still like soul food/creole/cajun):


I've seen these wheatpasted prints a lot lately, they're pretty cool:


A sign for "tails and food" over the back door of the Uptown Bar, which has lot of live music and decent breakfast:


Then my battery died! So I'll have to pick up from here sometime in the near future!

Between my house and Dassel, MN

First, on my way to the freeway I saw this really great new mural on the side of Merit Printing (they always have a great mural on their building), this one was done by Juxtaposition Arts:




In the town of Waverly (which, not to be mean, seems like one of the most boring places on earth) I found a good Hamm's sign, too bad it looks new and not original:


The Waverly Village Hall is this great Art Deco building built by the WPA that is one the National Register:


Why was I going to Dassel, a small farm town 60 miles from downtown Mpls? Because they have hired me to make a short documentary on the historical society's building! The building used to be an ergot lab, so that in itself is petty interesting. This old Chevy was used to haul grain, someone has written "mom" on one door and "dad" on the other:


Here are some shots of the building, which is also on the National register:



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Bunge Mill/BNSF Yards, Mpls

First of all, from now on when I take sets of pics like this, my favorites will go on Flickr instead of here. Why? So you have a reason to visit both sites of course! Today I was hoping to get some good pics of graf @ the old Bunge Mill, but they had just painted over it! So I took some pics of the cool architecture instead and wander down the tracks of the BNSF for a little ways. No one bugged me or tried to kick me out, so it was a good trip.



Just to proove there are a lot of sprayers wandering around here:


Container freight:


This train had a lot of stuff on it (taken while standing under the high voltage tension wires, uh oh):


Up close (I like that, beLIEve):


Underground cables?


I think this says whisper:


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