Thursday was a beautiful day for an anvil drop. Our neighbor to the south, Gardner Hardware, started the tradition in 2004, heaving a bright-red anvil from the top  of their store, four floors up, onto an unsuspecting car below.
Thanks to Gopher Towing for providing the target! Enjoy the show.
Just another day in the North Loop.

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An event took place last summer that immediately entered Fast Horse lore. Someone glanced out the window one afternoon and said, “Hey, there’s some woman in a bikini and chains across the street.” It turned out that she was also wearing fur boots as she draped herself provocatively across a loading dock.

As we looked on, [...]

Among the things I love about the North Loop are the wide streets. This area, which most Minneapolitans probably don’t think about as part of the Warehouse District, actually retains a much more warehousey feel than the area by Target Center and Butler Square.
This is a favorite view of mine, just half a block from Fast [...]