By: Grant Tillery
While making his rounds in Dinkytown, local independent filmmaker Al Milgrom, 92, stopped at a campus luxury apartment complex to discuss his latest film, “The Dinkytown Uprising,” with the building’s developers. He said he was shocked by their lack of knowledge regarding the area’s provenance.
“I said, ‘Do you know much about Dinkytown?’” Milgrom said. “Just [at] the mention [of] the word ‘Dinkytown’ they did a double take. They didn’t know that this was some historic community — for them, it was just putting up a high-rise as part of their corporate structure.”