Cabooze
The Cabooze is located at 917 Cedar Ave. on the West Bank.
John Hanson talks about the mural he painted for the Joint and the Cabooze:
On this day, 42 years ago – August 10th, 1974, I completed my first job for the soon-to-be open Cabooze Bar…their inaugural week…in July while sitting in The Joint Beer Garden, I was enjoying a frosty Grain Belt Premium with my friend Dennis Brown…I remarked to Charlie “Woodchuck” Campbell (Booking Manager for the new club) that the bare walls begged for “something”…”come up with something” he said…so I did…resulting in this…assisted in painting by Brian Ringham (shown here painting my shirt)…the opening act that week was a rag-tag traveling troupe of marauding Vaudevillians and hooligan Hippies known as “The Friends Roadshow”…some 2-dozen rather mad artists who regaled us with a blend of mirth, magic & mayhem…”a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down the pants!”…beginning then, what has gone on to become a true Twin Cities legend (and The World!), Lo, these many years…with no end in sight…thus began also, the jumpstart I needed for my brand-new one-man-shop graphic design biz: “Mill City Miracle Graphics”…(If it’s A Good Graphic, It’s A MIRACLE!)…having done hundreds of pieces for both The Cabooze & The Joint over the decades, I have nothing but gratitude for Jimmy Brown, Charlie Campbell, Rollie Olson, Taco and all the Staffers and friends there that have allowed me to shine and enjoy perhaps my most Leviticously Deuteronomous good times on Planet Earth…thanks, kids… but sadly, one day this was painted over …replaced by someone with characters from the comic strip “Peanuts”…Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy…alas now, lost to the pages of History…except here…”mighty oaks from little acorns grow”…
Cabooze & Joint Mural by John Hanson, August 10, 1974