Having just returned from a short vacation in a city I didn't know my way
around in very well, I can tell you that good maps are essential when you're
trying to get outside folks to visit. Knowing where to go, where the
highlights are located, and where you're located at any particular moment is
very important information one can get from a good map. This is probably
especially true in St. Paul, where our reputation for confusing streets is the
stuff of late night comedy shows and bad ethnic jokes.
So for the Convention and Visitors Bureau to put an insert in the Rake magazine
outlining St. Paul's neighborhoods - complete with maps - ought to be a good
thing. Unless a large number of the maps are flat out wrong.
What I've learned from this flyer:
Highland Park must be a state of mind, because it's shown as being in several
locations, none of which are located near what I've come to think of as
Highland Park. It's alternately along West 7th Street to the south and east of
35E (up to Kellogg) and also as that area around Linwood Park.
The West 7th/West End neighborhood does not exist.
Neither does Merriam Park.
Nor does Dayton's Bluff
All of the West Side is a subset of the District del Sol.
There does not appear to be a Payne Avenue in the Payne Avenue neighborhood.
Nice try, though.
Diane Gerth
Now living in Highland Park
(and I didn't even have to pack and move!)
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