Foshay Tower

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Clomping Around Downtown

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Church with Dale this morning. He had a meeting afterward so I clomped around downtown for a bit and then stopped at the Normandy Inn for a Bloody Mary. He brought me some altar flowers when his meeting was over.

Bitter Cold

The governor called off school today because of the extreme cold. I woke up about 8:00 this morning and the temperature was 20 below zero. By 9:30 it was still 20 below. By noon, when I took Athena out for a walk, it was 17 below!

Foshay Tower

Found this photo online. I'm guessing it's from the 1940s.

Old Minneapolis

From a postcard ca. 1940.

Foshay Tower

Found this photo on Facebook recently. I love it!

IDS and Foshay Towers

More shots of the IDS and Foshay towers. Found this pair on the Old Minneapolis page on Facebook. Photos submitted by Kent Mitchell. I love that the old Curtis Hotel is visible in the first picture. I remember driving by this many times due to one of the downtown freeway exits spitting you out in front of it. I remember Dad driving us up to Two Harbors in the early 1970's. For some reason we had to exit downtown on the way. Maybe it was due to some kind of construction detour. Anyway, as we drove by a drunk man, who looked and dressed very much like Otis on the old Andy Griffith Show, was hobbling out of the Curtis. I remember Dad saying in his very dry way, "He looks like I feel."

IDS and Foshay Towers

Love this photo. Credit goes to the Flashbacks of Bloomington group on Facebook. Photo dated 1972.

Accenture Tower

Another photo from a 1990 trip to the observation deck of the Foshay Tower with my friend David. The 33-floor building you see here is called Accenture Tower and was built in 1987. I thought it used to be called Lincoln Center but I can't find any information online to verify that.

The IDS Center and Norwest Center

This photo is from the same roll as the picture in my last post. Here you can see part of the IDS Tower and most of Norwest Center which is now officially called Wells Fargo Center. Photos taken during a 1990 trip to the observation deck of the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis with my friend David.

The IDS Center - Photo from a Pleasant Day

My last post included a picture of the IDS Center on a rainy day. Here is a photo I took of the building in 1990 from the observation deck of the Foshay Tower. Obviously it was a much nicer day! I like how the clouds reflected on the tower look as though they are passing right through it.

Minneapolis 1981 Part 3

Yet another shot of the yellow ribbon around the Foshay Tower in January of 1981. This shot was taken near the stage door of Orchestra Hall just off 11th and Marquette.

Minneapolis 1981 Part 2

Another shot of the yellow ribbon around the Foshay Tower in January of 1981.

Minneapolis 1981 Part 1

Found this old photo recently. The yellow ribbon tied around the Foshay Tower was to welcome home the 52 American hostages that had been held in Iran. I took the photo in January of 1981.

Minneapolis 1986 Part 3

Another shot from the roof of the Nicollet Center which was located between 6th and 7th Streets on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. The old J.C. Penney building is across the street in the lower left corner of the picture. On the bottom right side you can see where one part of Gaviidae Common was later built. The top of the Foshay Tower is peeking out from behind the building in the top right quadrant of the photo and the Campbell Mithun Tower is in the upper left quadrant of the photo.

Minneapolis 1986

In the summer of 1986 I was working as a security guard at a building called The Nicollet Center. I don't believe it's there anymore. Anyway, because I was the guard I could get up on the roof of the building. Here's a photo I took from the roof. I like it because of the clouds reflected on the IDS Tower (now the American Express Tower). You can see the top of the Foshay Tower, for a number of years the tallest building in Minneapolis, peeking up from behind one of the other buildings that's part of the IDS complex at the left of the photo.