501 So. Cedar Ave., West Bank, Minneapolis.

FIVE CORNERS SALOON

In 1905 there was a Five Corners Saloon at 337 Fifth Street NE.  In 1914 a butcher shop in the same area was identified as Five Corners.

In February 1936 the owners of the Five Corners Bar at 501 Cedar were John A. Foss and John Vooge.  It was the first notice I found of a liquor license.

In April 1938 it was called the Five Corners Cafe.

In September 1963 the owner was Art Leow.  There were plenty of news reports of robberies at the place.

An article in the Tribune in February 1964 described the clientele at the bar as “almost exclusively older people.”  The bartender said that most of them sit there all day and that the bar was kind of a social club for them.

Pictured below are Willie and the Bees, 1966. Photo by Ramon Muxter.

 

 

In 1977, two of the three owners of the bar were Brad Jacobsen and William Kulcsar.  That January Alderman Zollie Green was on trial for accepting a bribe for voting to approve the transfer of the bar’s liquor license from John Paulson to the new partners in 1975.

In May 1977 the paper began referring to it as the Five Corners Saloon again.

 

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NOMAD PUB

Todd Smith took over the Five Corners Saloon space, opening the Nomad Pub on March 15, 2005.  It was modeled after the Nomad on Brady Street in Milwaukee, run by his friend Mike Eitel.

 

 

Smith put the Nomad up for sale in May 2016.  It is now known as the Nomad World Pub.