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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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The 16 bus that ran down University Avenue has now been replaced by the light rail system.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).
Well, if you ever get to come back, get in touch. I'll meet you up there. I live about 6 hours from Minneapolis now in Wisconsin. Easy drive. The people I know up there don't talk to me anymore because I voted for President Trump. They can kiss my @ss. Or, as my grandma would say, "They can scratch their mad place."
I would love to go back to the U with someone who was there about the same time I was and who is a patriot now. That would be a memorable trip.
Ireland has always intrigued me, but frightened me a bit too. I couldn't figure that out until a number of years ago a psychic reader told me that the reason I was so paranoid and freaked out about the Y2K stuff was because of my lifetime in Ireland when my two kids had died in the potato famine.
I've been to Scotland and loved the scenery. Would love to travel around Europe and see the historic sites, but I don't see me traveling abroad anytime soon. Maybe when all the nonsense gets sorted out.
Thank you so much for bringing all these memories back for me. I so loved my time in the Twin Cities. But when i settled down, I settled down in a tiny little town that I dearly love. It's been quite an adventure, all in all. I would sure go back for a visit, but I wouldn't want to go back in time. :)
Wow...can you ever write: "I would sure go back for a visit, but I wouldn't want to go back in time."
"They can scratch their mad place" - kek!
I have lost all my teenage/20s friends, who were some of the best people I have ever known. Salt of the earth - no one else like them....well, they all hate my favourite president. It shocked me, because I thought they would all love him - because we were ALL contrarians back then. NOPE!! (this is the singular lived experience fact that drove home to me the true reality of the TDS virus & the power of the crooked mind-control media).
It's been an amazing coincidence to find an anon who was at the U of M when I was there, especially who is not a local. I never talk to anyone about that time in my life! I wonder if we were in any of the same classes....I don't want to doxx myself with my major etc! LOL. We can compare notes behind the scenes for sure though.
I hope to get back next year to the U.S. I would love to swing up to the Twin Cities for a trip, and meet up with you. It would be wonderful! So we will plan on that for sure (if we aren't all under martial law by that time - I better not get banned for dooming LOL)
Funny that you said I can write. I was an English major with a minor in Latin. Started my post-apocalyptic novel in 1984 (I know, right?!) after a composition class where the prof was trying to convince us that Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping was the female version of Huckleberry Finn. I was 18 walking my 2 mile trek back home through Dinkytown, thinking, "No, THAT's not the female version of Huckleberry Finn. I could write the female version of Huckleberry Finn." The arrogance of youth! But that's what I did. Took me 24 years between having babies and running businesses, etc. Finished it in 2007. Funnily enough, the shit hits the fan in my novel after a virus from China starts a chain of events that culminates in a neutron bomb dropped on Chicago and a couple other places. All sorts of dejavu happening for me these days. Makes me wonder if I wasn't tapping in to the great river of potentialities when I pulled those 800 pages into my brain and pushed them out through my fingers.
I know EXACTLY what you mean about losing the teenage/20s friends. My best friend since i was 15 could not abide me voting for President Trump. Same with the women in my writing group who are 20 years older than me and we had been meeting once a month for 20 years. The two kids I birthed--same thing. It's been pretty brutal, but I'm not going to be bullied by anybody--especially people who purport to love me. Screw that. I have met great people in this great awakening. I have a good friend who lives in Houston whose family lives in the Twin Cities who I met on Reddit back before the CalmBeforeTheStorm subreddit got nuked. He and I were both following MegaAnon pretty closely back then. He's a younger kid (anybody under 40 is a kid to me now, lol), who just got married--texted me pics last week. I met another friend in a line up in northern Wisconsin at a Trump rally before the 2020 election. She and I text regularly too. She and I were both in DC on January 6th though we never did find each other there. There's been pain in this process for sure, but a lot of joy too. And I'll take painful truth over pleasant lies any day of the week. I consider myself very blessed. I'll send you a DM with a link to the podcast my daughter started to do of my novel before she decided she hates me.
I am serious about meeting you in the Twin Cities when you're in the states next if, as you say, we're not in martial law or something. :)