Personal History

When I was growing up Downtown Minneapolis had an interesting (not always nice) collection of shops, restaurants, and cinemas.  I had an after school job cleaning two Fanny Farmer candy shops.  I bought a large part of my early collection of Science Fiction novels, along with magazines such as ANALOG, STARLOG, CINEFANTASTIQUE, and CINEMAGIC at Shinder's on Seventh.  Thanks to Comrade Gruen and like minded drones in the city government all of the neat parts of Downtown Minneapolis have been replaced through the abuse of eminent domain by a collection of dull and souless structures whose primary function is to generate property tax revenues.

Feh!