What Once Was: Twin Cities

These are a collection of photos taken of buildings and landscapes that no longer exist in the Twin Cities. Provided by the books of Larry Millett.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• architecture
• minneapolis
• saint
• paul
• minnesota
• lost
• twin
• cities
• history
• retro
• downtown
• demolition
• con
• ti
• partiro
• bocelli

[scottrngr]

is the music from the soundtrack to "step-brothers"? will farrell rules! boats and hos! boats and hos!

[eluko79]

@scottrngr The song is "Con ti Partiro". It was actually used in two of his movies. Blades of Glory being the other one. He must be a fan of Bocelli.

[mrscovil]

and i think the mpls library at 2:30 is now the cop shop....funny

[eluko79]

Your thinking of city hall. They tore down the library.

[AaronApolloCamp]

What about the University of Minnesota's Memorial Stadium?

[eluko79]

I couldn't find a matching picture for the video. I got a shot of it in another video I made though. Search for "archive footage of the twin cities".

[WilliamofMunich]

Highly unfortunate. People who want only money in life never stop to appreciate the beauty that sometimes money creates, Architecture being a good example of this.

[ClueMaster317]

Beautiful! Very appropriate ending. I was waiting for that building to pop up. So many people were upset when that building came down. It helped start the National Regestry anyway.

[kooimanspencer]

that was so cool i would like to see those buildings still up today

[thomasrosiefan1]

Selby Tunnel still exists. Well the east portal still does. The west portal was filled in.

[getemnate1]

CENTRAL!! 

[vkoo32]

I grew up in Minneapolis-St.Paul region in the 198o's. At that time we had two major uptown/downtown city shopping Downtown Minneapolis and ST.Paul very rare for a medium sized urban areas. Now both of the downtowns are now empty.

[EricDavidFloyd]

The Met was so well built it would have lasted past 2080. Afterall It was built out of stone. America as a whole has little respect for history. Newer is always better - so the saying goes. Notice Europe and how those nations add to the old but never "renew" the entire downtown - unless its Berlin 1945. So now Minneapolis looks like a piece of glass. Woopie! On the other hand those old buildings were not bringing in the cash. 

[70CarStall]

The Metropolitan was the most tragic yet there was no way it could have lasted into the 80s .

[usmc4life4]

@bluzdawg good observation, i noticed that too, my family once lived in swede hollow in the early 1900's when it was mostly italian, as well as the Levee

[bluzdawg]

right around 3:16, the title reads "sweed hollow" - c'mon it's SWEDE, like in short for Swedish, a a large portion of Twin Cities' heritage...although someone MAY have been creating a poor pun on the word "weed"...?

[deepwater9]

In the 1960s and 1970s there was a lot of disregard for the historic structures in the Twin Cities. Probably because the decision-makers at the time had grown up with them, and viewed them as embarrassingly old fashioned, and wanted 'modern' structures. Seems like St Paul has kept more of its historical heritage downtown.

[LINDY2588]

Some of these buildings would be really nice to still have around but look at this way change comes with time and there was probably a good reason for those buildings to not be around either they were not salvageable or the funds werent there to save them either way they are not around anymore so lets stop crying about it and move on.