20 Comments:
What about "Ninth and Hennepin"?
»» Submitted by »»» kurtis at 6:39 AM on March 24
Anyone here have a "whale of a drink" at Moby's?
»» Submitted by »»» justpbob at 6:40 AM on March 24
isn't it still the "Baddest Block in Minneapolis"? A Hooters and an Applebees. I rest my case.
»» Submitted by grote at 7:13 AM on March 24
I remember one show Tom did where he commented that one of the shops on Hennepin had a sign advertising "Used Erotica."
"Used erotica? Makes you feel bad for the guy that has to clean that off."
RIP Shinders, Moby Dicks, Goofy's Upper Deck, and Suns Store for Rock and Roll People.
"They all started out with bad directions
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
One for every year he's away, she said
Such a crumbling beauty, ah
There's nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't fix"
Northern Lights Music. I was just lamenting how the digital age has pushed out the great record stores.
Moby's: You could get a free drink for your AA medalion there. Oh my...
I'd take Block E in a heartbeat over that sterile peice of crap that occupies the space now.
Minneapolis has a great way of razing its culture and replacing it with a disaster.
And Raindog66, Tom Waits is your extra special guy, isn't he?
»» Submitted by Periscope at 8:20 AM on March 24
Going to have to watch "Down by Law" again...
»» Submitted by »»» justpbob at 8:28 AM on March 24
As a group of naive young white boys from Nordeast, going to Moby's for a "whale of a drink" was truly living on the edge. Rubbing elbows with the owner, Bobby Gold, made us feel like junior big shots. As brave as we were by going to Moby's on a Friday night, could never muster the courage to go to Mouseys further down Hennepin Ave. We walked into Mouseys one night, realized we were way in over our head and scampered quickly back out the door.
»» Submitted by I Miss Moby Dicks at 8:41 AM on March 24
Kibbitzing with clerk Curtiss A at the other Shinders, (there were two on the block), and then lunch at Dick's Best Steak House, followed by some foosball upstairs at Rifle Sport.
Too young for Moby's...
»» Submitted by bud jr at 9:10 AM on March 24
I loved the pizza joint and the whole vibe. It seemed much less violent than it does now. We would go down and think we where cool hanging out on Hennipin ave. Northern lights was cool because you could get the "newest" release from obscure bands. Now it is just a gang bangers paradise good job Mpls on that one. Is Glicks still there?
»» Submitted by swandog at 9:18 AM on March 24
unlike times square, cleaning up hennepin just killed it. someone call disney!
»» Submitted by wayno at 9:20 AM on March 24
Hey, I commented on that CP article!
As of late the CP Culture to Go section has really been kicking it up a notch.
I believe the Tom Waits song is "9th & Baconin"
»» Submitted by »»» JACC at 9:31 AM on March 24
Northern lights was on the next block south not on block E. Glueks is still there. Rifle sport was the best place to bet on pool and risk getting jumped.
Shinders was hustling with pimps pros. and poseuers. Great memories.The whole Ave was great, the Bigboy, globe, world, old Nankin etc. feel old now.
»» Submitted by ne'er at 9:34 AM on March 24
old Nankin etc. feel old now.
Way f*ckin old. I think the last time was down there was the Jerry Garcia show in the early nineties. It was just starting to change then.
»» Submitted by swandog at 9:55 AM on March 24
I'd take the #22 downtown with my little brothers and we'd go to Shinder's, where they would stare devotedly at the Spiderman #1 issue on display over the counter. Then they'd buy comics (strictly Marvel) and who knows what I'd look at, probably Seventeen or flippin Tiger Beat.
»» Submitted by Tib at 10:48 AM on March 24
In high school, I caught the bus there to get home to Longfellow. I can't count how many times some random homeless guy would come up to me and offer to kill me to atone for my white sins or would assert that some woman's vagina probably looks better than it smells.
One guy even said, "I smell the cracker on you and its worse than the crack of my old lady's ass."
The good old days.
»» Submitted by »»» acalhoun at 12:16 PM on March 24
i can't decide which i prefer more: the gorilla hanging in the chambers hotel courtyard or the bdsm cage in the old broadway bookstore. i definitely prefer parking lot over hard rock cafe, though!
I, for one, was always curious as to what went on behind the doors of the infamous Big Daddy's Bathhouse located below street level just off Hennepin and 7th (?) One the other hand, maybe I'd rather not know and use my imagination instead.
»» Submitted by Nostalgic for Block E at 2:52 PM on March 24
I loved the smells of the Great Northern Market. To those of us growing up on the East Coast with its many fish markets and outdoor Italian Markets (as in the Rocky movies), those scents brought back some pleasant memories. I used to work with a guy who called Hennepin Ave. "the boulevard of broken dreams"--how profound. It beats the "gang trash" anyday--my son won't even go near downtown on the bus, even though he enjoys the library.
»» Submitted by »»» aleshire at 3:03 PM on March 24
what was tom waits' minneapolis connection? he wasn't from here, and i've just wondered why he had a few songs about the place.
»» Submitted by courtneylaurel at 11:48 PM on March 24
"Northern lights was on the next block south not on block E."
Actually, Northern Lights was on Block E before it moved a block west and expanded.
»» Submitted by Tomaso at 12:12 PM on March 25
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