Denver versus Twin Cities: What's the difference?

State capitals
Denver	St. Paul
Rivers
The Platte River in Denver	The Mississippi River, Minneapolis
Pedestrian/panhandling havens
16th Street Mall in Denver	Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis

Old civic phallic symbols now dwarfed by skyscrapers

Denver, Daniels & Fisher Tower (inspired in 1910 by St. Mark's bell tower in Venice, now a cabaret venue)

Foshay Tower (inspired in 1929 by the Washington Monument, now a W hotel), Minneapolis

Big things made by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

"The Big Sweep," (2006), broom and dustpan outside the Denver Art Museum	"Spoonbridge and Cherry," (1988), Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Acoustic singer-songwriters
The former Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., a.k.a. John Denver, who passed through Denver	Twin cities. The former Robert A. Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan, shown here on a 1963 album cover
19th-century masonry
Larimer Square, Denver	James J. Hill mansion, St. Paul
Emblematic spunky gals
Denver. This is Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown, a.k.a., the unsinkable Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of the Titanic	Twin Cities. Mary Tyler Moore (whose TV show survived 168 episodes from 1970-77, shown here with Ted Knight, who played Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
Water crafts
Kayaking, Denver	Canoeing, Twin Cities
Grand old hotels
Brown Palace Hotel, Denver	St. Paul Hotel, St. Paul
Weird-looking buildings
Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building	The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis

Hard-drinking authors who died an early death

Jack Kerouac, who passed through Denver	F. Scott Fitzgerald, who passed through the Twin Cities
Dive restaurants
El Chapultepec, Denver	Hard Times Cafe, Minneapolis
Presidential contenders
Denver. William Jennings Bryan. (Bryan, right, shown here with Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial in 1925.)	Minneapolis, Benjamin Harrison

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