Stopped into a bar in Ontario, Wisconsin and someone is trying to sell me a mule.
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Jordan van der Hagen
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Jordan van der Hagen
@TheJvandy
Midwesternism
Minneapolis, MN Katılım Mart 2011
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Taking a trip down the big river, looking for cool shit, things to eat, places to grab a beer, bluffs to hike, photos to take etc. you name it between La Crosse, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.
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Windows of the California Building.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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@unclejfranklin Bummer. It'd be a cool spot to live in.
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@TheJvandy One of my friends lived there 35 years ago. He completely remodeled his space but the building wasn’t zoned for residential and he and his fellow habitants were forced to leave
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Remnants of the Hamm's Brewery.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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The Midwest, in this sense, is not simply a story of what has been lost, but of what it takes to hold onto a place when the systems and shared identities that created it no longer exist. racketmn.com/exploring-midw…
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@TheJvandy Great time of year. I spent plenty of time mending pasture fences at my grandparents farm in Upsala this time of year when I was growing up.
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Silence Falls on the Central Hillside.
Duluth, Minnesota
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@rhett_carlson Small peanuts but it's unburdened by geography and still moving that way pretty substantially.
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@TheJvandy I had not pondered the <500k MSA category. Interesting
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What are the other *southwest* path of growth cities? Kansas City? Charlotte, maybe?
In Minneapolis, Kenwood > Uptown > Linden Hills > Edina/Minnetonka > Eden Prairie... Chaska/Chan the new frontier
Chris Powers@fortworthchris
There is only one city in the United States that doesn't grow north - Minneapolis-St. Paul, restricted by geography. Every other city in the country grows north. That's the framework Rex Glendenning has been using for 40 years to position himself in front of growth. People in Celina laughed at him 30 years ago for buying dirt in the boondocks. He plowed every dollar after taxes and overhead back into 40 and 50-acre tracts anyway. In this clip from this week's episode - the rule of thumb Rex says should be on the first page of every real estate book.
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@willcountynews It's something you see all across the Midwest. Probably beyond it, too. But watching the dollar stores creep in at the edges of these places has been tough. It's good people can get their needs met cheaper, but it sure seems bad for town economics and local business.
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This sentence man: "Midwesternism is the great granddaughter of the Chamber of Commerce chair driving two towns over to shop at a dollar store because the grocery on Main Street couldn’t make the numbers work." racketmn.com/exploring-midw…
Jordan van der Hagen@TheJvandy
I've been thinking a lot about how the Midwest is a landscape of inheritance. This idea is explored in a few paragraphs and forty photographs of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers. Feeling honored to have these published by @RacketMN.
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@mglampshade @RacketMN Might be one of my favorite images ever
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I've been thinking a lot about how the Midwest is a landscape of inheritance. This idea is explored in a few paragraphs and forty photographs of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers.
Feeling honored to have these published by @RacketMN.
Racket@RacketMN
The Midwest, in this sense, is not simply a story of what has been lost, but of what it takes to hold onto a place when the systems and shared identities that created it no longer exist. racketmn.com/exploring-midw…
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@brainnotonyett Well put, and exactly the feeling I'm trying to capture.
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I will forever argue that the Midwest is a liminal space that exists in between the promises of what could’ve been and the harsh reality of what is.
Racket@RacketMN
The Midwest, in this sense, is not simply a story of what has been lost, but of what it takes to hold onto a place when the systems and shared identities that created it no longer exist. racketmn.com/exploring-midw…
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