Matt and I met at the Whole Foods near Lake Calhoun for a run through Linden Hills and Fulton down Drew Ave S and back on Chowen Ave S (yes, they’re alphabetical). The shot above was from Drew Ave S which has a combination of older homes from approximately the 1930’s intermixed with some tear-down rebuilds of homes that may or may not fit the surrounding neighborhood.
At 43rd St W we passed the True Apostolic Assembly:
A few blocks later, we passed this example of street shaping (that’s what I call it, but there’s probably a technical term for it) where an intersection is blocked generally in order to slow down traffic and cut down on pass-through traffic from commuters or people who don’t belong:
This seems like something that certain areas of Hawthorne and Powderhorn could benefit from as well.
At 50th, we passed an SUV friendly Dairy Queen where you can keep the fossil fuels burning while you buy large Blizzards for the whole family:
The next block included this example of a newer home that stands out from the surrounding properties. It’s a nice looking house, but around twice as large as surrounding homes:
54th Street is the border street in this part of town:
Crossing 50th on Chowen passed the delicious Wuollet Bakery:
And the future site of The Bancroft Condominiums:
Lake Harriet United Methodist Church was quiet on this Saturday morning:
Pershing Park seemed like a fun place to hang out. That’s Southwest High School’s stadium in the background:
The Home of the Lakers, Southwest High School:
Followed by Lower Lake Harriet School:
Back near Lake Calhoun, we passed Abe Lincoln:
Abe was just South of Minikahda Club:
Which was setting up for the world’s easiest Easter egg hunt with eggs spread out on the putting greens:
Here’s a view of Lake Calhoun from near the putting green:
abe lincoln? my 1st thought was conan o’brien, but maybe
that’s cuzza the reddish color of the “hair”, and because it’d
be hilarious for somebody to have a chainsaw carving of
conan o’brien in their yard.
Don’t start talking about traffic diversion in Powderhorn. I don’t want that anywhere near my neighborhood. We’ll do just fine with our grid, thank you. Traffic calming is a good thing, but traffic calming via outright diversion, street closings, or turning movement prohibition is like weight loss through anorexia. It’s effective at meeting one measurable goal, sure, but it causes a host of other problems, and the benefits are debatable.