As Julio Ojeda-Zapata posted last night and wrote in today's Pioneer Press, Google Street View launches today in the Twin Cities. If you're not familiar, you can now look at an address from the street. For example, here's my house. Notice my poor lawn care but my lawn gnome is hanging out!

This lead me to wonder, when were all these photos taken? The State Theater is advertising shows for very early August 2007, right after the 35W bridge collapse on August 1st. You can drive under the 35W Bridge and you can actually drive on it too, seeing some of the construction equipment. Here's a shot of the skyline from the bridge with a portable toilet in the foreground. This is probably only days before it collapsed. Rows of news vans line Main Street SE after the collapse.

You can drive through the Lowry Tunnel and you can see storm damage in Acacia Park Cemetery. Take a stroll up US52 over the Lafayette Bridge into Saint Paul. If you keep clicking the NW arrow you can chase a light rail train in reverse. There's some workers rebuilding East Lake Street.

For more in Saint Paul, check out the state capitol but you can't see the forbidden-to-photograph oven at Punch Pizza.

Surprisingly, a lot of Highland Park isn't available for Street View as well as White Bear Lake. But you can visit St. Olaf College down in Northfield. Here's a guy that looks like he just left Sex World. Heh.

They have my office to see too. One of the owners parked his Mazda 6 out front and my manager's VW Bug is in the lot. Who knows where my car is!

Find anything interesting strolling around Street View in the Twin Cities? Please comment! Remember when linking Google Maps, click on the "Link to this page" link to get the proper URL.