Former "Big Stop" store, Jordan Neighborhood, above
Former Wafana's Store, Hawthorne Neighborhood, belowPhotos and blog post by John Hoff
I wrote recently about how the "inconvenience store" at Wafana's disappeared off the face of the earth while I wasn't looking, but I didn't have an AFTER photo to show the glorious transformation. Click here for that blog post.
Well, here's yer AFTER photo and I can't help but be struck by the "family resemblance" between the vacant lot at the former "Big Stop" store in Jordan, top photo, and the Wafana's store, bottom photo. Except for the fact children have built snowmen on the Big Stop lot, there is VIRTUALLY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO LOTS.
Amazing. Another North Minneapolis instance of "separated at birth?"
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I wrote recently about how the "inconvenience store" at Wafana's disappeared off the face of the earth while I wasn't looking, but I didn't have an AFTER photo to show the glorious transformation. Click here for that blog post.
Well, here's yer AFTER photo and I can't help but be struck by the "family resemblance" between the vacant lot at the former "Big Stop" store in Jordan, top photo, and the Wafana's store, bottom photo. Except for the fact children have built snowmen on the Big Stop lot, there is VIRTUALLY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO LOTS.
Amazing. Another North Minneapolis instance of "separated at birth?"
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Funny. They seemed to be separated at birth when the inconvenience stores were still standing, too.
ReplyDeleteThugs loitering everywhere. Trash blowing like tumbleweed across the landscape. Boom cars congregating as if there was a boom car convention.
Yup, I concur. Big Stop and Wafana's were separated at birth. And now they can be reunited for eternity in death.
Let's help some more of their brethren get to the family reunion.