On Lake Street I only went as far west as the Third Precinct so have no photos of the Arby’s a bit west of there that news reports said burned to the ground or of the little strip mall west of Hiawatha Avenue (a bank there was looted).
Across the street from the Third Precinct, a Target and a Cub Foods are boarded up. Both were looted and a car was set afire in the parking lot they share. A church group was distributing water, food, and diapers:
Kitty-corner from the Third Precinct and across Lake Street from the liquor store shown in Part 2, an auto parts store was burned to the ground. The right side of the building used to house a shoe store but their parent company filed for bankruptcy last year and I don’t know if that part of the building was still occupied. In the parking lot, the only police I saw (no pic), four of them sitting in two unmarked vehicles:
Just north of the auto parts store, the Wendy’s was burned. As I took the second picture, one of the women was jokingly talking into the drive-thru display, asking for a cheeseburger, fries, and a Coke:
Just north of that, on the southeast corner of Minnehaha and 29th Street, an under-construction building was torched; a crane at the construction site did not fare well:
On the northeast corner of the same intersection, 7Σ (I think it was some kind of machining company) got burned:
Next to it across a narrow alley was a small building that had been sealed up for as long as I can remember. Maybe 7Σ used it for storage? It burned and the heat from it melted paint on the house next door:
Kitty-corner of that house, on the northwest corner of 27th Avenue and 29th Street, the Schooner Bar (where I used to sometimes play bar poker) and the barbershop attached to it suffered heat damage on its west face from the construction site fire, but when viewed from the north and south sides, the apartments above did not seem damaged. I didn’t take any pics of the Schooner that weren’t ruined by my finger in front of the lens but I did get one of the melted barber pole:
Crossing south of Lake Street again, what was Gandhi Mahal, the best Indian restaurant in Minnesota. I don’t know of it was directly targeted or if fire had spread from the adjacent IOOF building:
A little south of there, the Post Office went up in flames:
Just east of that, people were doing drive-up drop-offs of donations and volunteers at the Lutheran church were handing them out to those waiting in line:
As I stood on the sidewalk wearing an N95 mask and taking pics, a masked black guy at least 10 years my senior (I’m 64) asked me in a thick Southern accent what I thought of all those people not social distancing. When I said “There will probably be some more cases of Covid in a few weeks but right now those people have other things to worry about,” he replied “You got that right brother.”