The Roller Garden, located at 5622 West Lake Street in St. Louis Park, started life in 1930 as an arena built for horse shows. In mid-1943, Arthur Eaton installed a wooden floor and added roller skating to the offerings at … Continue reading →
1123 Excelsior Blvd., Hopkins. Dancing to the “famous Red Jackets” on Friday nights. Just what the Doctor ordered! Ad below from 1954.
Continue reading →The Rose Bowl, on N. Snelling in St Paul, had a live music room, at least in 1969.
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Continue reading →3011 First Ave. So. (at Lake Street) was the site of an NAACP Coronation Ball in 1941. In 1944 the managers were Charles Clifton Jackson and Robert “Bobby” Marshall, Sr. and they sponsored a series of dances featuring Larry Griffin … Continue reading →
The Royal Court at Knollwood Shopping Center offered live entertainment. June 1969: Rock in the Dungeon Bar, Tommy Francis Duo in the High Court Bar. A duo called the Quasi Kinship performed there in August 1969. It was down from … Continue reading →
This page concerns two dining and dancing establishments located at 503 1/2 Hennepin Ave., in the Hale Block at 5th and Hennepin in Downtown Minneapolis. For the history of the Hale Block, which contained two other addresses of entertainment, click … Continue reading →
Please see the Golden Pheasant.
Continue reading →FILIPPO’S Filippo Rusciano received confectionery, soft drink, and pool table permits at 702 Buchanan Street NE, Minneapolis, in April 1932. “Confectioneries” were often candy stores that were either waiting out the end of Prohibition, or serving hooch in the basement. … Continue reading →