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December 14, 2005 at 1:38 am #21553RabidKittenParticipant
Ah yes, Rochester, Minnesota. *takes a deep breath* If you try really hard, you can almost ignore the hospital smell. *giggles*
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for more pictures visit: Rochester411Now, while it looks like a typical town, you almost have to remember that this is nearly 85K people. And yet…NOBODY EVER locks their doors. Most of the time, if you lock your car, people tend to look at you pretty strangely like “What kind of paranoid freak are you?” Holds true to the idea that “When you’re in Rochester, you’re in another world.” and owns up to the slogan “Rochester: The worlds Biggest little town.”History:
The city of Rochester credits its naming to a settler from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Gearge Head. He staked a claim on the bank of the Zumbro River near the falls in July of 1854, and he called the town Rochester because it reminded him of his hometown of Rochester, New York. Shortly thereafter, the small town started to blossom around the institutions it built or attracted, most notably, the Mayo Clinic.
compliments of rochester govt center
The Mayo Clinic:
Mayo Clinic evolved gradually from the frontier practice of Dr. William Worrall Mayo and his two sons, William J. and Charles H. Mayo. The elder Dr. Mayo emigrated from his native England to the United States in 1846. He became a doctor in 1850. In 1863, he was appointed a Civil War examining surgeon for the Union enrollment board, first Minnesota district. In 1864, the Mayos moved to Rochester where the enrollment board was headquartered.
compliments of mayo homeMayo Clinic was one of the first hospitals to cut folks open. It was concidered to be barbaric and “icky”, mostly a taboo back in the day. Which is probably why Mayo is so ahead of its time now a days. Headstarts are great for evolving companies. And the citizens of Rochester are not strangers to walking on down to the clinic and signing up for in/out of hospital testing. “Sure, for a grand you can put me on a diet for two weeks and take my muscle tissue! I don’t mind!”
Today, the Mayo Clinic has spread worldwide. It isn’t uncommon to be walking through the skyway or the subway and see an actor or a someone in royal, otherworldy garb with an anterage. The whole city evolved around Mayo, the bike path, the skyway, the subway, all connects the dozen (at least) Mayo buildings together.
Living la vida Mayo:
Basically everything in the city is controlled by the powerful, rich mayo doctors and nurses. While this may not nessisarily be a bad thing, crime is generally very low, the news is flooded with human interest stories, the city is clean and beautiful to walk through, there’s no need to travel out of town for top medical attention. Beautiful parks and a great community college and schooling system for training the top doctors in the nation.Though it’s not all peaches and cream.
Basically anything that is concidered “unwholesome” is nixed. Skate parks, clubs, teen hang outs, gay clubs, metaphysical stores…basically anything that isn’t conservative is quickly flooded out by mayo. Not to mention that if it raises a ruckus, it gets changed.
Couple years back we got a large immigration of muslim and bosnian folks. I thought it was great! Some diversity in the city, marvellous! Well, there was a new high school put in town, in the ‘rich’ part of town, where all the doctors kids went. Many of the new people came into town and settled there. Soon there was a mediocure ‘minority’ rate in the rich school. The doctors wouldn’t have it and forced the district to change all of the boundaries so that the higher ‘minority’ houseing areas would be sent to the ‘inner city’ school, my school, John Marshall. Now JM has a 75% ‘minority’ rating, while Century has a 5%. Not as if it matters, but it shows their power in town.
Schooling:
There’s a vast cornucopia of public schools in the area. With 16 elementary schools, and 9 Middle and High schools, really there’s no shortage of education. Also, there’s 12 K-12 Private schools, 1 Private High school and 2 middle to high schools.Not to mention that there’s a Community College, and a hub for the U of M and the U of Winona in town at the University Center.
Naturally there’s a Schooling Program at Mayo as well as a program in our secondary hospital (Yes…we have two, Mayo wasn’t enough heh), St. Mary’s.
There are also Bible Colleges, Massage Schools and lots more.
See: college search, roch higher edu, crossroads, augsburgGeneral To-Do:
Generally, this city is a great place… if you’re 1-14 and 35-up. But in the middle, you really are kind of lost. Unless you have friends who party a lot, or like going to bars or throwing rocks at geese at Silver Lake, you’re out of luck pally, heheh.[attach=center]504[/attach]
Silver Lake, where people throw things at geeseThough, The Lake is interesting. It never freezes over. No, never. The Power Plant uses the water to cool it’s machinery, so even in the winter, you can watch Bear Creek freeze up, but when it gets to Silver Lake, there’s steam rolling off of it. Sometimes it gets so thick that it gets onto the road and it’s really cool *giggle* But one downside is that there are Canadian Geese all over the place. Being the state bird, they’re illegal to kill, so if they wander on the road, we’re obligated to let them go. They’re cocky and figured this out, so often times, they cause a traffic jam.
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Even pure evil is cute when it’s a baby.The nearest place that has anything interesting is the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), an hour and a half away.But during the Summer we have our hey days. The Civic Center always hosts every weekend in the summer, these little concerts in the park they call “Music down by the Riverside”. I swear you can hear the music for blocks and blocks, and so many people show up. It’s amazing. That and the civic has a great circle of marble stones for a gravesite for the Mayo Brothers…I love it. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a picture of it.
Also, like most cities around here, during the summer we have our RochesterFest, to celebrate the city and generally just to have something to do *laughs*
And we have the Olmsted County Fair here since…well…we’re the only real city in the county *giggling* Down at the fair grounds, there’s rides, shops, food and plenty of carnies to heckle you, heheh. Not to mention they have the demo derby *wink*
“Best”:
Now, Rochester may be annoying, but it’s got some great stuff going on.
Officially, this year Rochester was Money Magazines #73rd best place to live. And was placed #1 in ’93.
Olmsted County, Minn., took No. 2 in the ACBJ study in ’04. (About 27,000 residents of the Rochester metropolitan area work at the famed Mayo Clinic.)In my personal opinion, we also have THE BEST Ribs and BBW place in the whole wide world. Roscoes. My brother works there so I get great discounts too *giggle*
For more information:
google it, you nutcases!
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Added about the Olmsted County Fair, Rochester Fest and Music in the Park.February 3, 2006 at 7:24 am #137768TigerbladeParticipantabout the geese – pure evil is still evil, *especially* if it’s in baby form. that’s how they get ya.
and i like the part about how the town was founded by a person from… Wisconsin. that’s right. my state. haha. although, i dont know if that’s a good thing or not.
great post, Sami.
February 3, 2006 at 1:48 pm #137772AqeelParticipant“When you’re in Rochester, you’re in another world.” and owns up to the slogan “Rochester: The worlds Biggest little town.”
Well, great info Sami, I wish to live in a town like Rochester. 🙂
February 3, 2006 at 10:45 pm #137769RabidKittenParticipant*laughs* Pure evil is especially dangerous in baby form, that’s so true, Tom! They lull you into a kind of security *shifty look around* Babies will be hatching in another couple months too… … *gets her anti-geese equiptment ready*
Yeah, heh from Wisconsin, but yet he named it after a place in New York… hmmm….
Heh, I don’t know about that Aqeel, it’s nice sometimes but other times…well it feels like it’s its own world because people are complete jaded jerks most of the time and the nearest town of any real size is at least an hour and a half away. And hour and a half until sanity! AHHH! *cackles*
February 5, 2006 at 1:05 pm #137771sarahtownyMemberSounds like a lovely place to visit.
…..I can see us now, sat at the summer music concerts, eating the best ribs in town. 😀
February 7, 2006 at 1:50 am #137770RabidKittenParticipant*purr* Oh definately. Pulled chicken sandwiches for days, Sitting in my mom’s garden and listening to the music in the park (because you can hear it from there), trying to ignore the hospital smell and giggling as my brother runs around inside being a complete nutcase *giggles*
Just a hop across the pond right? *laughs*
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