Downtown St. Paul

Some pictures of downtown St. Paul in the daytime and at night. Downtown is not what it was when I was a young girl. It once was a place you could go shopping and to the movies. I have fond memories of taking the bus there with my mom, from the North End where we lived. Now there are only a few places to shop and nowhere to see a movie, but downtown St. Paul still has a lot to offer.

This is the Exchange Building on the intersection of Cedar and Exchange. My husband's law office is in this building.
The foreground has the Hamm's Bear plaque and in the background is the Hamm Building.
The Landmark Center with an antique greyscale treatment.
This one has an aged photo treatment.
This one has an Auto Tone treatment
Most people from St. Paul would recognize Mickey's Diner. Even if you have never been to St. Paul, you may recognize this diner from movies such as Jingle All The Way and A Prairie Home Companion.

This is the same scene with no treatments.
Inside the St. Paul Library.
Inside the elevator at the library. It has a selenium treatment.
and this one an antique greyscale treatment.
You may think the last 4 images have a treatment, but they don't.

I applied some treatments to some of the images in this gallery and this one has an aged photo treatment.
This one also has an aged photo treatment.
The building in the center is the Landmark Center. My mom use to tell me how much she loved and admired it. Maybe it reminded her of the Marketplace in her hometown of Bremen Germany.
Rice Park
If you are familiar with Prarie Home Companion, you should have heard of The Fitzgerald Theatre.

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Downtown St. Paul