Hopkins is a town full of possibilities for some good photographs, it has a good mix of old and new history.

Drive In's in the metro area seem to making a come back. Galaxy in St Louis Park opened this spring, it sits in the location of the old Wagner drive in along the south side of HWY 7 between Texas Avenue and Louisiana, they did a wonderful job with the decor and I am waiting patiently to view this on a snowy night to so the illumination in the clouds with snowy foreground or back drop. The Minnetonka Drive In has been around for many years it is in Spring park on Shoreline Drive and is a beautiful drive any time of year specially in the fall with the colors and if you are a trail biker, walker, hiker or skater, this drivein is with in walking distance of the Dakota Rail Trail, and it is recomended along with Scotti B's in Mound for for a pit stop along your treck








The crane shot originated in Brooklyn park with the carnes and construction at 81 and 169 I thought adding the drive in to the scene added interest to the photo.










Click on image to view large Wagners Brooklyn Park always seems to busy.

It has taken several years for this property to transform into a useful entity again, It used to be 215 Excelsior Blvd, that address changed when Hwy 169 came through and took some of the property. At one time it housed the Hopkins post office ran by Harley Hopkins his family also lived in the house, it then was sold to Red Owl and they built there corporate offices and warehouse on the property, then SuperValu used it for several years, in the last few years Opus took over the property and has built three large office buildings, The first pictured here will house Cargill offices and there is a building to the West that is almost finished and another building to the East that they just started the iron work on, I do not know who will occupy the other two buildings. see Red Owl collection