Tired

Here is another look at Green Lake, a chemical/trash dump in North Minneapolis that existed until 1980:

If a 10 acre pool of caustic lime wasn’t a bad enough eyesore (and nose hurt!), the ‘lake’ was also a favored spot of scoff-laws who used it for the deposit of worn out tires:

It seemed to exist in an alternate reality; Green Lake was a world with its own aesthetic and at times possessed a strange beauty:

It was situated a few blocks away from where I grew up.


The original monochrome images were shot circa 1974 and colorized in 2021