During the 1980s, Minneapolis went through a significant transformation. The Lake Harriet Band Shell was rebuilt in 1985, and the remaining portion of Interstate 94, from U.S. Highway 12 to the city’s northern boundary, was completed in 1982. Formerly home to the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was built in 1982 and demolished in 2014.
An area of Minneapolis known as Block-E, filled with bars and beggars, was notorious in the 1980s. Despite the recent transformation of the city block into The Mayo Clinic Square, a medical center specializing in sports injuries, the memories of Block-E’s past still remain.
Take a look back at Minneapolis in the eighties through these fascinating vintage color pictures. For more photographs, visit Todd Jacobson’s brilliant Flickr site.
Biking along Nicollet Mall, Downtown Minneapolis, spring 1983
6th Street, May 1983
Nicollet Mall, May 1983
Old gas station at 3rd Avenue and 10th Street, Downtown Minneapolis. Piper Jaffray Tower under construction, 1983
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