I've lived in the Longfellow neighborhood, off and on, since 1967. I've never considered the River-Lake tabernacle as a particularly memorable building. It has always stricken me as a shabby relic that wouldnt die. Now that I read that someone DEMANDS a plaque be put up to memorialize it, I wonder why there isn't a plaque that states that the revival congregation at 36th and Lake used to be a movie theater. That the TV repair shop used to be a drugstore, and so on. It seems likely to me that the new construction going up there at 47th and Lake is a long overdue improvement of the neighborhood. No longer will we see "Prepare To Meet Your God" as we enter Minneapolis.
I think the Jewish people feel about the same way that I do about that building and are only insisting on truth because the heritage commission is insisting on memorializing the immemorable. Lots has changed in this section of Lake since I first lived here in 1967. And practically all that isn't here now is more "memorable" to me than the tabernacle. Chuck's Used Cars is now replaced by a Subway, Kenney Transmission, and Tires Plus. And that's where Pohlads' 1967 strike made me buy my first car. I want a plaque for Chuck's Used Cars. If I had been Jewish, I'm sure Chuck would have gladly taken my $89. Jim Mork Cooper Neighborhood ===== J P Mork ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Stress is Nature's way of telling you that you're not working enoughuncompensated overtime." ----Catbert, Evil HR Director __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
