Written on July 30, 2010 at 11:04 am by

Where Was This Taken?

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I take a lot of photos while driving around town. Usually when stopped in traffic or walking. I have been known to take a picture or two while driving but I don’t recommend it.

I took this picture earlier this summer, I wasn’t really thinking blog at the time but I knew I had to have a picture of this. It’s been sitting on my desk top for a while now and I decided to make it into a contest.

I don’t have any prizes.

But, it’s pretty easy.

Where do you think I was when I took this picture?

(You will have to embiggen to get the full picture of what’s happening here)

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  • http://pricillaspeaks.blogspot.com Pricilla

    erm, shopping?
    Although I see no apples and it's not shopping if you don't buy apples for your goats.

  • Holly1018

    Walmart?

  • http://www.daysonthecreek.com Tennessee Mom

    Wherever it may have been, the car was apparently sitting on the birb bomb target drop.

  • http://twitter.com/roses2rainbows Linda R.

    I'll go with Walmart on University Ave. in St. Paul just as a guess.

  • http://comedyplus.blogspot.com/ Comedy Plus

    Well there is a Borders in the picture, so more of a strip mall thingy. That car wouldn't last five minutes in California. The window would be knocked out and the stuff gone. High crime area is an understatement.

    Okay, I'll guess Target. Got to be different you know.

    Have a terrific day. :)

  • http://twitter.com/TheDDoR Ian

    I don't know where but it looks like they parked too damn close to you

  • http://www.surfiesays.blogspot.com/ Surfie

    I see Borders, a fitness center, a Dollar Tree shopping bag and a shopping cart return. But other than guessing I have no idea. Walmart, Kmart, Target, grocery store???

  • Joecap3

    Hummmm…sitting in your car? At the Dollar Tree-Borders parking lot?

  • http://www.weworkforcheese.com Nicky

    You were in the parking lot of the Walmart at 1450 University Avenue West, St Paul, MN. I know you didn't ask, but here's the number – (651) 644-0020.‎ And you shopped at Dollars.

  • http://www.msdarkstar.blogspot.com/ MsDarkstar

    I'd say Nicky's guess is pretty spot-on. I've not been to that part of town in a couple of years, so the LA Fitness (that used to be a dept. store, I believe) threw me off a little. I can see Central Medical in the background, I think.

  • peedee

    I know where you weren't RIGHT before this pic was taken…..definately NOT at the carwash.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    That is not my car! I only took the picture, and it doesn't do the car justice, because I have NEVER seen a car so full of garbage before.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    In all fairness I parked too close to them.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    You can't really see it but Target is beyond the Borders.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    We have a winner! Send me an email and I will get you signed up on Tribal Blogs.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Sometimes they have a farmer's market in the next parking lot over, so if I had taken this picture in the fall there would have been apples.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    This just creeps me out. Google?

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    You guys are killing me. Tell me MsDarkstar what was in the building next to the Borders. It is now a Herberger's but what was it before that? Oh, and I'll give you points if you can tell me what was in what is now the parking lot of Target, across the street. Two icons of St. Paul, now long gone.

  • http://www.msdarkstar.blogspot.com/ MsDarkstar

    I *THINK* that what used to be in the Herbergers was a Carson Pirie Scott and the Target Space was formerly Montgomery Wards, was it not?

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    You are so close. Montgomery Wards was in the Herberger's spot, but, I think
    it was something else between incarnations. The Target parking lot used to
    be…..now I can't even remember it. Oh, i'm going to have to look this up.
    Paper, it was paper. Shit.

  • http://www.msdarkstar.blogspot.com/ MsDarkstar

    Ok… What is now Wal-Mart in the front and Cub Foods in the back of what was originally Montgomery Wards. In the mid 90's there had been Kmart and F & M Drugstore in that space.

    What I'd thought was the Carson Pirie Scott was a Mervyns store in front with Herberger’s department store and Border’s book store in the rear. In the mid 50’s it was the O So Good bottling plant and in the early 50’s it was a Pepsi Cola bottling plant.

    What is now Target used to be Brown & Bigelow. Until fairly recently there was a regular Target as a middle store with a Sheraton Four Points hotel in the rear.

  • http://www.smalltownmommy.com Anne

    Since I am from the east coast, I have no idea. I would have to guess Home Depot parking lot?

  • http://beetle-blog.com/ babs (beetle)

    I know this one! You were in America!

  • http://amothershood.com Lanita Moss

    Goodwill parking lot? I take pictures while I am driving, also. Unfortunately, it usually occurs while driving at excessive speeds…and the picture usually captures the speedometer. This doesn’t make my husband happy.

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