East Lake Street

Green neon sign with engine-shaped smiley and words KEEP YOUR ENGINE HAPPY

A WARM Engine Is A HAPPY Engine

Starr Automotive adds a cheery grin on these cold and snowy winter days.

Photo: Helen Miller

looking up at tall crane in front of a three-story building under construction with purple insulation on exterior walls

Crane Watch

Another big crane spotted in Longfellow this year. Photo: Michelle van Kuijk

looking across an empty street intersection to a Dairy Queen building with a few people and puffy white clouds overhead

Cumulo-DQ

Clouds float above Dairy Queen like soft serve… Photo: Helen Miller

street scene at night with colorful window lights and a glowing TOWN TALK DINER sign

Lights On

Love seeing the lights on at night. Photo: Carri Musil

store window with globes stuffed monkey on an old suitcase surrounded by small knickknacks with racks of clothing in the background

Time Bomb Moves

Vintage dealers assembling their new shop on East Lake Street… Photo: Helen Miller

Bed of multi-colored pansies in a bed along sidewalk and streetscape with flags overhead and pink and blue ribbons hang overhead in trees

East Lake Pansies

Planting pansies is an annual rite of spring. Photo: David Skarjune

blue and black motorcycle parked inside a showroom

Blue Beastie

Dream machine. Photo: Helen Miller

Four glasses of cider colored pale straw to light red with bottles and background out of focus with bar and people

Cider House Rules

Sampling the array of ciders… Photo: Brian Donahue

Person at the door of a closed storefront with a faded sign painted overhead on bricks reading MAC'S CLEANERS & ...

Denny’s Back to Mac’s

Diner finds Denny’s is closed at Mac’s corner. Photo: David Skarjune

metal palm trees with green fronds and red trunks against real trees and blue sky

Tropical Paradise

Heat and humidity has grown this atop East Lake… Photo: David Skarjune

a female mannequin head with a crown

Crowned Diva

Cheapo Queen has been disposed.

Photo: René V. Rosengren

nighttime street scene of a lit-up storefront with a large bright sign reading TOWN TALK DINER

Talk of the Town

This historic diner opened with 15 seats in 1946… Photo: Brian Donahue

Neon-lit diner at night with blurred car lights in foreground

Hi-Lo There

Fodero Dining Car spent 60 years in Gibsonia, PA… Photo: Brian Donahue

Wooden wall outside a storefront with 4008 spray-painted in black with gold GILDA sign above

Gilda

Two Bettys’ new neighbor.  Photo: Rene Rosengren

Line of young people walking on a sidewalk across a street with a House of Sleep building on the corner and painted crosswalk in the foreground

The Road to Learning

Students heading to Hiawatha Collegiate High School. Photo: Dave MacCallum

three-story red brick building from corner view

Minnehaha Commons

at the old Poodle/McMahon’s corner… Photo: Jane Strauss

Snowy night scene of bus stop lit by streetlights and car lights with retail signs in background

Long Nights

…at this deserted bus stop… Photo: Jane Strauss

empty street corner intersection with storefront buildings and overhead red stoplight

Ghost Town

…no traffic nor cars parked… Photo: Jane Strauss

red-haired young woman in a school varsity jacket from behind looking across street a firefighters standing across crime scene tape, watching a fire truck pour water over a burned-out two-story building.

What Was is Gone

Viewing burned-out building on East Lake… Photo: David Skarjune

yellow mobile office unit sits behind an iron fence with a sign "mobile pharmacy" hanging on it

Mobile Pharmacy

at the former Walgreens… Photo: Sue Romain

McDonalds street sign with golden arches and sign reading: Take out 8am 8pm - Lake Street Strong

Lake Street Strong

From storefronts to drive-throughs… Photo: David Skarjune

Telescopic view looking down a four-lane street with cars and traffic lights, most green, one red, one yellow arrow, with a giant sunset in the background setting over the street scene

Sunset Strip

East Lake at equinox… Photo: David Skarjune

parking lot with some cars and an ALDI store with a Now Open sign on the building

Back in Business

ALDI & reconstruction… Photo: Jane Strauss

four large colorful murals of a black man's face in a grass yard with a sign reading "Justice for George Floyd"

Summer of George

Reminders of injustice stand tall… Photo: Robin Lietz

open superstructure of building under construction with metal studs and beams against a clear blue sky

Rise from the Ashes

New beams on East Lake… Photo: Brian Donahue

tall stone column with street lights on top and a grinning face painted at the base

Crafty Spirit

of the Bridge… Photo: Jane Strauss

Riverscape from waters edge looking up at a long bridge on a sunny day with reflection off the water

Bronze & Blue

under Lake Street bridge… Photo: René Rosengren

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