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White Castle Building Number 8 is a former White Castle restaurant building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.. The building, measuring only 28 by 28 feet (8.5 m × 8.5 m), has had three locations in Minneapolis.
Charlie's Cafe Exceptionale was a large and successful [1] restaurant in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1933 to its closing on July 21, 1982.It was located at 7th Street and 4th Avenue South and has been called Minneapolis's "most talked-about dining establishment" during its existence.
Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was an American conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's ...
A vegan breakfast at Seward Cafe. The Seward Cafe was founded in 1974 as an all-volunteer operation. In order to offset costs, worker-owners were given coupons for free food (known as "Burger Bucks") and some of the original collective members purchased a house to live in cheaply. [4]
For weeks, frustrated staff at El Sazon Cocina & Tragos had watched surveillance footage of what appears to be a well-dressed woman tiptoeing around the restaurant's patio at Lyndale Avenue S. to ...
According to a 1988 article, in the Star Tribune newspaper, "Old timers remember" when the restaurant was "a drop-off for numbers money" and "when Kid Cann, the notorious gangster, used to sit at a table in back and play cards." [5] The building was designated as a local landmark by the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission in 2000.
The Minneapolis Forum Cafeteria was located at 36 South 7th Street [1] originally constructed in 1914 as the Saxe Theater, later the Strand Theater. [2] A 1930 reconstruction created a cafeteria with a stunning Art Deco interior of black onyx and pale green tiles, sconces, chandeliers, and mirrors with a Minnesota-themed motif: pine cones, waterfalls, and Viking ships.
Fliegel and Winter were friendly with a number of pro athletes who would visit the restaurant and cocktail lounge throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s; during this period Winter and associates brought major league basketball and football to the city as co-founders of the Minneapolis Lakers (Fliegel was a silent partner) in 1947 and the ...