Big House Nite Club
1329 So. 3rd Street
Minneapolis
I saw ads for this place from December 1932 to 1937, and just loved them! Who would start a bar before Prohibition was over? An optimist, I guess. And name it the Big House? (Did the waiters wear stripes?) The answer is a guy named Frank Potvin, whose name was associated with a big moonshine seizure in 1920 but got a liquor license anyway.
The address was 1329 So. 3rd Street, which, as far as I can make out, is where 35W meets Washington Ave. Maybe he had a big house.
Minneapolis Star, May 19, 1933
Minneapolis Star, September 1, 1933