McGuire’s Restaurant and Lounge was located at 1201 W. County Road E in Arden Hills, three miles north of Highway 36 on US 10 between Lexington and Snelling.

McGuire’s seems to have opened in or before 1961.

Normally a more sophisticated place, McGuire’s bowed to the folksinging craze in 1963.

As early as 1966 it featured the Lamplighters Singing Sextet, formerly the St. Paul House Sextet.

 

 

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In 1970 it was called the McGuire’s Supper Club: Fine dining, dancing and entertainment in one of the largest dining rooms in the upper Midwest; dinner shows, lounge entertainment.

The names of the rooms had changed from 1966.  The Ranch Room was now just the Piano Bar.  The Tiki Room was still there, but there was now a Shamrock Room for dancing, and a German buffet in the Gasthof Room.

 

In 1973 a notable act was the Kirby Stone Company, featuring the leader of the Kirby Stone Four.

An August 1974 ad was for McGuire’s Continental Room at the new Ramada Inn, same location, featuring Ginna & Joel. Also Carole Martin in the Chimney Sweep Lounge.

 

 

       

 

The last match found in the Minneapolis papers was on July 1, 1982.