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Neighborhood: East Side

The East Side is the easternmost neighborhood, inhibiting northeastern Saint Paul and surrounded completely by suburban Maplewood. As Saint Paul expanded from the 1880's on, the east side slowly filled in as the topography (the most challenging to cross) was surmounted. The far eastern edges of the city, around White Bear Avenue, are actually suburban style developments that filled in the outer ring of the city's boundaries in the 1950's and 60's.

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Your typical alley.
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Your typical alley.
 
This is the bus stop at Hillcrest Shopping Center on White Bear Ave.
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This is the bus stop at Hillcrest Sh…
 
The Professional Building on the edge of Saint Paul, site of many doctors visits as a child with Dr. Hallstrom (spelling?).
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The Professional Building on the edg…
 
The big picture on White Bear Avenue. Derelict commercial scenery of the early suburban age. The vacant Burger King sign in front has new life as a Taco World, but very little else has changed.
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The big picture on White Bear Avenue…
 
More White Bear Avenue. A bus patron sweats away in the intense heat.
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More White Bear Avenue. A bus patron…
 
Looking off towards the Iowa Highrise. A faint glimmer of a hazy downtown is off to the left. Believe me, it was unbearably hot and muggy the day this was taken.
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Looking off towards the Iowa Highris…
 
Hillcrest Knoll, a block of parkland, relatively new.
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Hillcrest Knoll, a block of parkland…
 
Craig Pl., with the Buick Century that I'm driving (I took out the license plate number).
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Craig Pl., with the Buick Century th…
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Craig Pl., near Hillcrest Shopping Center. Many of these homes are small, single story bungalows built in the 1950s and 60s.
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Craig Pl., near Hillcrest Shopping C…
 
Craig Pl. home.
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Craig Pl. home.
 
A residential street off of White Bear Lake Ave. shows the suburban style infill that repleted eastern Saint Paul after WWII.
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A residential street off of White Be…
 
1743 Iowa Avenue, the only highrise in the Hillcrest area.
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1743 Iowa Avenue, the only highrise …
 
"The Plaza", an old and small movie theater off of White Beat a little bit.
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"The Plaza", an old and small movie …
 
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