If you have ever traveled along East River Road, you may recognize some of these images. East River Road "starts" in Coon Rapids and winds it's way through Fridley, eventually transitioning into Marshall Street of Northeast Mpls. I have travelled that road many a times, from a little sprout to my senior year in high school. Most of the time on that road was during my senior year in high school.
My family moved out to Champlin in '94. I decided to finish my last year at Edison, in NE Mpls. The quickest way for me to get from point A to point B was to take West River Road to East River Road. Well, maybe not the quickest, but at that time the safest. I had my grandparent's hand-me-down Mercury Marquis. I would start off in the wee hours of the morn and travel the foggy West River Road. I absolutely loved that time of the morning. There is something mysterious about the fog and early hours.
From the calm quietness of West River Road i would land on the harried East River Road. It was always treacherous in the winter time. Only two lanes in each direction to barely contain the amount of traffic on it. When i hit Fridley, most of the traffic spilled onto the freeway and left me on the last leg of my journey to St. Anthony Pkwy and beyond. It is at this point were we see the industrial side of town.
There is the mysterious FMC building (it's called something else now), the rail yards, the beautiful brick buildings of the Mpls. waterworks, and back to the mysterious fenced in auto wreck yards. Below reveals some of what is seen from behind the scenes of East River Road. The bridge is part of St. Anthony Pkwy.
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