The Monte Carlo

Celebrated my birthday downtown recently at the Monte Carlo.

Canadian Pacific Plaza Building

This building is currently known as the Canadian Pacific Plaza building (since 2012). It was originally known as the First National Bank Building and also formerly known as One Financial Plaza. It was built in 1960, is 383 feet tall (117 meters), and has 28 floors. See preceding post. It is currently the 21st tallest building in the city and is notable because it is the first major post- World Was II skyscraper build in Minneapolis. This photo was taken on January 18, 2010 and is attributed to Alexius Horatius.

Old Twin Cities

Date unknown although most likely early 1960s due to image of Canadian Pacific Plaza building on the letter 'C'. This building was originally known as the First National Bank Building and also formerly known as One Financial Plaza. It was built in 1960, is 383 feet tall (117 meters), and has 28 floors.

Old Minneapolis

From a postcard ca. 1950.

Old Minneapolis

From a postcard ca. 1940.

Minneapolis City Hall - August 1st 2013

August 1st 2013 was the first day same sex couples could legally get married in the state of Minnesota. These photos show Minneapolis City Hall ready for the big event just after midnight on August 1st.

Powderhorn Art Fair Snapshots

Powderhorn Art Fair - Athena

From Dale's blog dated August 3, 2013:

"Joe and I headed to the Powderhorn Art Fair at Powderhorn Park, which is close to our house. Minneapolis, being artsy as all get out, has three major art fairs going on this weekend - Uptown, Loring and Powderhorn. Uptown is ridiculous with 100,000 plus people and kind of commercial IMHO, Loring is more local but really packed and Powderhorn is the most local and has a good number of people but not just teeming. I really like this one. We took Athena to get her some culture. All she cared about was food and sniffing butts. Some people's dogs..."

I will add that Athena was something of the belle of the ball.  Not only were dogs all a-twitter about her but a good number of people made nice comments about her as well. The red bandana that Dale tied on her, I'm sure, didn't hurt.