Vineyard

About all we know about the Vineyard is in the three ads stumbled on below – the word “Vineyard” is just too common to do a very decent newspaper search on.  It appears to be new in May of 1934, operated by the Floriti Brothers.  Make that Forliti – below we learn that the proprietor is Paul Forliti, and he shows up in several more ads.

 

Located on County Road E and New Brighton Road, opposite Lake Johanna, this appears to have been in either present-day New Brighton or Arden Hills, depending on which side of New Brighton Road it was on.  Three of the corners of that intersection appear to be residential and the other parkland.

 

The timing of it the opening was right after the end of Prohibition.  Best of all, entertainment was provided by Lloyd Bennett’s five piece band!

 

 

A tiny ad from 1934 claimed it was “A Good Place for Good People,” and “Very Reas.”  “Italian Foods a Specialty”  (Minneapolis Journal, November 11, 1934)

 

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The ad below also tells us that it was Italian food on the menu on New Year’s Eve of 1934.

 

 

Somehow the Vineyard obtained a liquor license at the end of 1935, and offered a “Full Line [of] Fine Wine and Liquors.”  In addition to dancing there was even a floor show!  This must have been quite a place.  And here we learn that the proprietor’s first name was Paul Forliti. Unfortunately, this was the last ad found in the Minneapolis papers.