I was asked to show this movie at our County GOP headquarters. I did NOT want to watch it again - I was raised in North Minneapolis. It hit close to home for me. I showed it tonight and was shocked at the number of people that showed up and had never seen it. This is a great movie to get into everyone’s mind before November 5. The Harris/Walz ticket can NOT be allowed! It is free online at thefallofminneaplis.com - it is also free on YouTube.
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Was that Rainbow Foods? I don't remember a Cub Foods during that time.
No, pretty sure it was Cub Foods. We lived on 5th St SE up not far from St. Anthony Main area. So we did our shopping to the west to stay away from the more expensive areas by the U--Dinkytown, Stadium Village, etc. My boyfriend and I had moved to Minneapolis from Illinois, so we didn't know where anything was except to go find the places we needed. I remember Rainbow Foods too (another name I had not thought of in years), but I'm pretty sure it was Cub Foods we went to because years later when I was back in Illinois, Cub Foods came to northern Illinois and I was thrilled. Open 24 hours a day, which was not that common in the late 80s. Didn't matter when I was in Minneapolis, but when I was back in illinois, I worked second shift at a newspaper as a copy editor so I would do my grocery shopping after I got off work at 1 a.m. I loved walking around Cub Foods when almost nobody was there and there were no lines at the check out. Even now, I like grocery stores. I hate any other kind of shopping, but I can spend hours walking around a grocery store looking at just whatever. Expensive proposition these days.
That's really interesting - I can't remember ever seeing a Cub Foods when I lived there, but I wasn't up in your neck of the woods much. (I didn't have a car, so I usually stuck close to where I lived, worked, and went to school). That Marcy-Holmes area has gentrified a lot apparently since we lived in the TC. I worked at Montgomery Wards on University Avenue for awhile (in the Midway area). It was off the 16 bus (I'm sure you remember the 16 that went right through the U of M).
I used to go to 24x7 supermarkets at night when I lived in the U.S. I loved to do that especially in the hot humid summertimes.
What bought you and your boyfriend up from Illinois? I always think of the TC as being very isolated geographically, despite being a college town so to speak. Most of the students came from rural MN, the dakotas, WI etc, but not many from places like Illinois. It felt very isolated from the rest of the country, which made it a very interesting place to live. It freaks me out to think that I lived in this place in pre-internet times. (How did we figure ANYTHING out without the internet? Even booking long distance travel. I don't remember how I did it)
I looked it up--it was the Cub Foods in Fridley that we went to.
My boyfriend had grandparents in northern Minnesota and I was very close to his grandparents. I picked U of MN to go to college because I knew he would be comfortable in MN and we were leaving northern Illinois, which had gotten hammered by the 80s recession. I grew up in a rural area and wanted to live in a big city. I look back and am a bit baffled by my own courage at the time. I was 17 when I graduated from high school and drove to MN by myself to find an apartment for us.
You took the 16 bus. I had forgotten the number of the bus but after I stopped working at the daycare center after only a few months because I was sick all the time, I got a different workstudy job at the U's General Storehouse, which was between the Mpls & SP campuses. I'm pretty sure it was the 16 bus I took to get over there. We had my 1980 Mustang car, but my boyfriend drove it to work in South St Paul every day, so I walked or took the bus.
You don't live in the U.S. now?
"I look back and am a bit baffled by my own courage at the time...." I guess because in the 1980s all knowledge was contained in books and libraries, the ONLY way to do something like this was to just figure it out somehow...when you got there. Terrifying!
Finding PT jobs and apartments out of the newspaper, or by word of mouth - there was really no other way!
Seriously - how did we do this?!?
The 16 bus that ran down University Avenue has now been replaced by the light rail system.
I live now in Europe (Ireland) and haven't been back to Minnesota for nearly 40 years. I do want to go back, but unfortunately everyone I knew there is dead (my dearest friend from there died in 1993, sadly). So if I went, I would be on my own. Not sure how I would feel about that. It's weird to read the obituaries over the years of my favourite professors! It will always be a very special place to me because it was such a formative time in my life. Those years shaped nearly everything that followed (the good, the bad, and the ugly).