budd@arizona.UUCP (tim budd) (10/24/83)
How many "dales" are there in minnesota anyway? What are their names? Are any of them as original as clydesdale, mondale, et al? (the real ones, not the ones listed on the kitty boutique ad). The only one I know of is "Ridgedale", in northwest minneapolis, but then again I only get to that part of the world very rarely, and that particular shopping center happens to be near my grandparents house. (anybody on the net ever been to dinkytown?)
borman@decvax.UUCP (Dave Borman) (10/26/83)
Rosedale, Southdale, Ridgedale are the three that come to mind, but I did most of my shopping at the Burnsville Center, which I think is the largest shopping center in Minneapolis. As a trivia note, did you know that Minneapolis was the first place in the country to have an indoor shopping center? (I think it's Southdale, but I'm not absolutly certian on that. The folks at stolaf, umn-cs or minn-ua can correct me on that...) -Dave Borman, decvax!borman (living in NH, but a Minnesotan at heart)
dave@rocksvax.UUCP (10/28/83)
Seems that Rochester here has made that claim with its downtown "Midtown" mall.
This info may only be hype, could mean that our mall was first one opened
in a snow-storm, any the Minn. mall first on the East of the Mississippi??
All in all the "dales" sound like such pleasant places.....
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Dave
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uucp: {allegra, rochester, amd70, sunybcs}!rocksvax!davenotes@minn-ua.UUCP (11/01/83)
#R:arizona:-561700:minn-ua:11900001:000:2142 minn-ua!jlw Oct 31 23:21:00 1983 ***** minn-ua:net.wobegon / decvax!borman / 11:29 pm Oct 26, 1983 Rosedale, Southdale, Ridgedale are the three that come to mind, but I did most of my shopping at the Burnsville Center, which I think is the largest shopping center in Minneapolis. As a trivia note, did you know that Minneapolis was the first place in the country to have an indoor shopping center? (I think it's Southdale, but I'm not absolutely certain on that. The folks at stolaf, umn-cs or minn-ua can correct me on that...) -Dave Borman, decvax!borman (living in NH, but a Minnesotan at heart) ---------- You forgot Brookdale, which is northeast of Ridgedale (the most recently constructed "Dale", it has earned the nickname Swampdale due to its location and construction techniques (it displaced about 1/4 of the marshland around it)). Southdale opened in the mid- to late- 50s, and has had several spurts of expansion since then. The area around Southdale now has several ancillary shopping malls. Seeing as one of them is called Galleria, and Valley View Road serves the area from the northwest, can there be any doubt as to the true origin of the Valley Girl? Another road into the area is called Wooddale, and a spur from that road could easily be the address of the Department of Redundancy Department: Wooddale Glen. A few malls of roughly the same magnitude as the Dales are Eden Prarie Center, Har-Mar Mall, Minnehaha Mall, and Apache Plaza. Dinkytown is a 4 1/2 square block area northwest of the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. It is about 1/4 eating establishments, 1/4 fashion boutiques, and the remainder is distributed among things like a theater, post office, hardware store, stationers, bank, travel agency, bakery, optician and stereo store. Tucked away a few doors from the theater one can find (you guessed it) Dinkydale! Dinkydale is a hallway with about 6 shops and a deli, qualifying it as perhaps the smallest indoor shopping mall. There. You now know more about the Dales than you could possibly want to know. Jeff Woolsey University of Minnesota Computer Center ...ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!minn-ua!jlw