The Embassy Club was a tavern/roadhouse/supper club/restaurant, way outside the city lines, but close enough to the ‘Cities to advertise in the Minneapolis papers.

LOCATION

The Embassy was located in Burnsville, when there was no Burnsville.  It was on Highway 35W when there was no 35W.  Most early advertising just described it as Lyndale Ave. So. and Minnesota River Blvd.  Even now, the location is described as Highway 35 W and 122 Street.  An alternate address is 11981 Embassy Road.  Or, you could say it is gone.

Karen Anderson helped me out with the location:

Whenever the river flooded, the building was in danger of flooding. It wasn’t in the best location. I would have thought it was rather hard to get to, as well. The photo from Google Maps, showing the building, was taken in 2011. If you ‘drive’ down the road a little farther, the scene changes to a winter scene and the building is gone. It was taken in 2022. According to Google Maps, The Embassy was on Embassy Road. It was on the west side of 35W, just north of Cliff Road. It was in approximately the spot where I put the X on the map.

The Embassy, with parking lot et al. Google image courtesy Karen Andersen

Location of the Embassy marked by Karen Anderson

HISTORY OF THE EMBASSY

When Karen sent this to me, I had almost nothing on this out-of-the-way place, except for some ads from 1933 and 1935.  This couldn’t be the same place, could it?  But I did a newspaper search, and it appears that the Embassy very well may have been in its location since 1928!  Bring your own liquor, of course.  Eventually it had the only liquor license in Dakota County.

more to come

Dancing to the Bobby Bird Trio, 1969.