Driving Miss Minneapolis!

Saturday is a drive around day in Minneapolis, St Paul and every suburb known to man. The No Kings protest was huge in Minneapolis but when we got there, it was breaking up, and people were walking home. So off we went.

Driving thru Minneapolis and there, with a line of people was Matt's Bar, home of the Juicy Lucy, a hamburger full of cheese. It's famous, it's a wait of 1-2 hours and the line had nothing but Philadelphia Eagles fans looking for their cheese wiz and beef. Down the block is 38th Street and the George Floyd Memorial. Now you may think Floyd was a criminal, a counterfeiter, a druggie, a domestic abuser or anything else, but the fact remains, being murdered by a sworn Minneapolis cop is not the sentence for any of that. It is interesting to see the scene of the crime. Floyd was a lot of things, but a murderer like Derek Chauvin he was not.

The U of M campus is on both sides of the Mississippi. Rowers were out and so were protestors. Give em a quick shout out, a honk and a thumbs up and we were on our way. The campus is very nice and clean. I wonder if the frat boys had gotten over their hangovers.

St Paul is the capitol of the state. the capitol building is typical. A big white capitol that looks like this.

Back to the Mall to find the plaques that identify where certain things were at the old Met. Metropolitan Stadium was on the site of the former home of the Twins and the Vikings. It took a while and that Mall was still hotter than hell but Max found them.

I went to the Met once in 1967. I found it so cool. Being a child, anything would be cool. I'm sure the Mat turned into a dump, but nonetheless, the Met could never have been as big of a shithole as that Metrodome turned out to be. A gigantic cement tomb. It is also gone. US Bank Stadium is there now, home of the Vikings. Tomorrow.