The Quarry Then and Now

Is there a Twin Cities equivalent to the Quarry Market? Take a look at the stores they have. It's nothing like the warehouse district.

The Quarry Market is more like Block E and Target in downtown Minneapolis, but even more suburbanesque.

Instead of forcing city people to the suburbs, The Quarry Market has forced the suburbs into the city. I have relatively little problem with the gentrification and/or renewel of warehouse districts and other dead zones in the city. That's capitalism at work and postive urbanization. But the quarry has been paved over, not renovated. And they didn't put in hip housing, theaters, and bars, like they have done in Minneapolis' warehouse districts. Instead there is a premium golf course and a Thomas Kinkade gallery to peruse in the Quarry market.

Thomas fucking Kinkade!!! I used to work with a lady who'd bitch about paying $7 to see action movies because they were run-of-the-mill and unrealistic, but had no problem forking hundreds (thousands?) of dollars for mass produced paintings of STRUCTURALLY IMPOSSIBLE houses. I guess irony wasn't taught in the Burnsville school district.

What is so surpising to me about San Antonio is, missions aside, the lost history. In the Twin Cities this kind of history would be preserved (even if it's not restored). There'd be books, documentaries, and museum exhibits about a site like the quarry and Cementville. But no one has done anything like Twin Cities: Then and Now and Lost Twin Cities in South Texas. Is there a Texan Larry Millet out there? San Antonio is twice as old as Minneapolis but where is the history, besides the Alamo and the missions? Who wants to unearth and bring to life the real stories of San Antonio (the ones I don't know)? Does someone out there want to compare the pictures of today's South Texas to the ones from 100, 50, and 25 years ago?

After reading Justin's comments, I did a web search on the quarry and Cementville. At first I thought this was the first time Google ever let me down. But then I realized, the problem was Google has nothing to find. The web has 1000 pages about how to blanche green beans, but I'll be damned if anyone's posted a site about Cementville. I did learn a Trinity University student made a documentary about the place (may be worth looking into) and a story about one Cementville resident (not to be confused with Cementville, IN). It looks like you could be a primary source, Justin.