Dick’s was a bar – or a series of bars – located at 574 Rice Street in St. Paul.  It may not have had music until after 1974, but I was alerted to it by a loyal reader, and got much help from my friends on Facebook, so I just had to look it up!

THE BUILDING

The earliest ad found in the newspapers was placed on October 29, 1892, when some bereft person wanted his Lost Hound Dog back.

By December 1894, the site was the A.W. Sonnen & Co. Drug Store, at least through March 1905.  Then the early St. Paul papers stop and we have to rely on Minneapolis papers.

In November 1924 it was the W.R. Stewart Drug Store.

PETE’S BAR

At this point we rely on Minneapolis reporters and their crime reports.

In June 1940, Peter Adikowski was the proprietor of an unnamed Tavern.  A 1953 report called it Pete’s Bar, so I’ll go with that.

DICK’S HORSESHOE BAR

From 1945 to 1962 it was Dick’s Horseshoe Bar, as described in the obituary of its proprietor, Richard P. Adikowski.    Jim Froehlich found these wonderful tokens from Dick’s, from 1959, on the Internet.

 

           

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CY’S HORSESHOE BAR

One crime report in June 1965 gave the place Cy’s Horseshoe Bar.

CREA’S HORSESHOE BAR

This name came from the folks on Facebook.

HANK’S HORSESHOE BAR

I had this one before – in 1973 this was a Country bar.

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HORSESHOE BAR

Perhaps after that it became tedious to keep naming the bar after the owner, or maybe it was the age of corporate ownership, who knows?  It appears that the next hit was in January 1984, when it was only referred to as the Horseshoe Bar.  Same in May 1982, when there was definitely live music playing.

TWISTER’S BAR

If this is the same place (given as 574 N. Rice Street), the building’s roof collapsed from the snow accumulated during the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.  The building was described as 95 years old, making its building year 1896.  It reopened in January 1992.

 

The building was demolished and replaced with a new one with the address of 580 Rice Street.