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A mural of Bob Dylan with harmonica and the Positively 4th Street song title on 4th Street SE in Dinkytown.
Notable year: 2006
A mural of Bob Dylan with his harmonica and the title "Positively 4th Street" is painted on the side of a building on 4th Street East in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. It was painted in 2006 by University of Minnesota graphic design student Sergey Trubetskoy as one of six murals in the neighbourhood.
Dylan arrived in Minneapolis in 1959 as a University of Minnesota freshman and spent much of his time in Dinkytown, the small commercial strip next to campus. He played at coffeehouses, hung out at record shops, and started going by Bob Dylan instead of Robert Zimmerman. Some have argued that 4th Street through Dinkytown — not 4th Street in Greenwich Village — is the street behind the song title.
The mural is on the west side of a building on 4th Street East. It is one of several Dinkytown murals that were restored and resealed in 2016.
Gray's Campus Drug is where Dylan lived in an upstairs apartment. The Ten O'Clock Scholar coffeehouse is where he first performed. Al's Breakfast is a 14-seat diner that has been serving Dinkytown since 1950.
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