GPS FRIDLEY: Georgetown on the River Apartments
Virtually visit faraway places that parts of Fridley are named for.
Take a trip via YouTube to Georgetown, the Washington, D.C. neighborhood that is the namesake of the Georgetown on the River apartments in Fridley.
What street, place or building do you think would make a good GPS Fridley?
Tell us in the comments.
marilyn
11:39 pm on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Fourmies St. near city hall....
Chris Steller
5:42 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Thank you, Marilyn! (Had to look it up ... )
Chris Steller
5:31 pm on Wednesday, September 7, 2011
On Twitter, John W.C. has suggested Robert Louis Stevenson's birthplace (to go along with the elementary school in Fridley named for him) and Osborne Road, which he recalls being named for some local notable person. Anyone know that one?
Chris Steller
5:33 pm on Wednesday, September 7, 2011
And on Facebook, Courtney Rathke suggested Jupiter Road and Mercury Drive, along with streets in Innsbruck section of town: St Imier, St Moritz, Argonne, as well as Windemere Drive, named after Lake Windermere in England.