Talk:Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis

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I have just created an account and have edited the copy for this page. My editing amounted to deleting the referance to Bob Dylan as a music personality associated with this area. Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) played and sang rather briefly at a coffeehouse called "The Scholar" when he lived in the area known as Dinkytown. I'm told he lived upstairs from what was then Gray's Drug and now is the Loring Pasta Bar.

But the Scholar left Dinkytown and was reincarnated on the West Bank (Cedar-Riverside). When it opened its new doors, Dylan had already left the Twin Cities for New York, and he never performed at the iteration of the Scholar that was a prominent home for folk musicians in the late 1960s.

Several historically important venues have disappeared from the West Bank, including the Scholar and the infamous Triangle Bar. Together they represented the two faces of the West Bank music scene: the Scholar was about coffee and folk music, primarily Leo Kottke; the Triangle was about beer and blues, and the figure I associate most with the place is Willie Murphy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnstoryteller (talk • contribs) 12:57, March 19, 2007

Photos?
Does anyone have any photos from the West Bank in the late '60s? (I didn't own a camera in those days.) Sca (talk) 21:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

New Info
I have been editing the copy for this page by organizing it into appropriate sections as well as adding a few bits of information here and there. I've created a sort of community summary page as well as a demographics section. Also I am in the process of adding a section for crime statistics. The orginal creator of this page lacks lots of citation so I'm going to see if I can clean some of that up as well. There is bunch if citation changes needing to be made to the text which I will be working on throughout the day I am having some technical difficulties but will hopefully get it ironed out shortly. Jaconl5109 (talk) 18:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC) Fur  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaconl5109 (talk • contribs) 17:38, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Crime Section
It seems to not be standard to have a section on crime statistics in a neighborhood page; the only neighborhood pages I've found with such a section are NYC neighborhoods with dedicated police precincts and precinct-wide data. In addition, the information currently included is more than 10 years old. I'd propose deleting this section or at least updating with new data and references. Malvoliox (talk) 19:10, 19 April 2024 (UTC)