 The shot in the opening credits where Mary Tyler Moore throws her  hat into the air was shot at the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet  Mall in downtown Minneapolis. In May 2002, TV Land erected a statue  of her at that spot. The statue faces the opposite direction,  however: the buildings that appear in the background of the shot  were destroyed by a fire that took out an entire city block on  Thanksgiving night in 1982. Many scenes in the opening credits  (riding an escalator, window shopping) were shot within a one