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November 19, 2003
Fargo in National Geographic
National Geographic Magazine picked Fargo’s (or at least the part of Fargo in the 58102 area code; pretty much just downtown) for its latest ZipUSA feature story. You have to pick up a copy of the actual magazine to get the full story and all the photos, but the online version gives you a taste.
If you saw the movie Fargo, you remember the impossibly flat whiteness. But what you don’t remember is Fargo itself, for not a frame was shot here. And so you may not know that Fargo is a city of 91,000 people with another 33,000 just across the Red River in Moorhead, Minnesota. Or that freight trains rumble and moan through the low-slung downtown day and night. Or that within one zip code, 58102, there is a medical center that broadcasts robotic surgeries, a historic Broadway being restored to former glory, and a library where young refugees from Bosnia, Sudan, and Somalia crowd around computer screens, catching up on news from home.
Posted by paullheureux at November 19, 2003 03:23 PM