The Kistler Building was located at 633-641 Sixth Ave. No. on the southeast corner of Sixth and Lyndale. It housed a number of important jazz and R&B clubs on the North Side. Much of this early history comes from the … Continue reading →
Sixth Ave. No. between Highland and Aldrich: Jazz venue.
Continue reading →The Kiva Coffeehouse was located at 1441 N. Cleveland Ave. in St. Paul, across from the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul Campus. THE KIVA COFFEEHOUSE It was only mentioned once in the Minneapolis papers, in a Will Jones column in … Continue reading →
The Klondike Bar was located at 326 Cedar Ave. So., on the West Bank, Minneapolis. Previous to the Klondike it was the Fred Hemmingsen Tavern (1935) The building burned down on March 25, 1955. The Klondike moved across the street … Continue reading →
905 – 4th Ave. So. That address is the Gethsemane Church today and may have been St. Thomas Church in the 1930s, as it was the site of the St. Thomas dance and style show.
Continue reading →The Kobbersted dining room and lounge was in the Holiday Inn and Solar Dome at 694 and 100 in Brooklyn Center.
Continue reading →Much of the information below comes from an interview with Phil Eder, who had a hand in all of the businesses below from 1968 to 1987 when the property closed. I thank him for his frank insights on these many … Continue reading →
F.J. Kopesky’s Barn was the site of many community dances in 1928. It was described as on County Farm Road, 3 miles south of Hopkins. County Farm Road is now Highway 169, and the location is in Eden Prairie. Based … Continue reading →
Krueger’s Haymow was described as “a block or so off Highway 100 at South Robert Street, West St. Paul.” Clues to this location are: It was described as “past the Corral Drive In.” The present address of the site … Continue reading →
This restaurant and nightclub was located at 7800 Computer Ave. (behind Howard Johnson’s and the Camelot) in Bloomington. The building was in the northeast corner of Highways 100 and 494 and was built in 1961. La Cantina was owned by … Continue reading →