This bar and dance hall was located at 9946 77th Ave. No. in Maple Grove.  This is in the NW sector of the intersection of Brooklyn Blvd. and Highway 169.  It had an on-sale and off-sale license.

It was owned by Raymond (Ray) A. Wolff, who died in 1994.

It was the hangout of the kids going to Hennepin Technical Center’s north campus, from 1967 to 1989.  My Facebook informant remembers that it was mostly underground, pretty big, and had sawdust on the floor.  You had to walk down about 20 stairs to get to it.

I received an email from a relative, who tells us,

It was my grandfather’s bar and named by my aunt, who was the youngest of six kids. During the day it was a place for workers in the gravel pits that were next to the bar, to get a bite to eat and a drink – usually a beer. At night it was a hang-out, a place to listen to bands and dance. My grandparents would host a big Christmas dinner there every year.

When the bar was closed it became “Sneakers Nite Club” and didn’t have nearly the same customer base.

It is now within a bigger parcel that is over $1 million worth of vacant land.