Extant Sites ‐ Properties Associated with Minneapolis Music
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Extant Sites ‐ Properties Associated with Minneapolis Music Building Date Dates Used for Information Obtained Names Project Address Street Type Genres Extant | Demolished Still Music Related Current Use Notes from Various Sources Mapped Construction date Demolished Music From Originally located at 809 Aldrich Ave N, but that building was demolished in 1970 with I‐94 construction; new building at current location built. Place where Prince's parents, John Nelson and Mattie Shaw met while playing a concert. • 1301 10th Avenue North; Original house at 809 Aldrich Ave N • Started a new annual festival to replace the northside presence at the Aquatennial Phyllis Wheatley Center 1301 10th Ave N Community Center All Extant 1970 NA 1970‐Current Yes Community Center Parade which was contentious after the 1967 incident Yes o Northside Summer Fun Festival drew 6,000 people in its 6th year on August 9, 1978; performers included Sounds of Blackness, Flyte Tyme, Mind & Matter, Quiet Storm, and Prince o Prince also played in 1980 • Hosted Battle of the Bands concerts (no cash prize, just honor) • Original building built in 1924 as a settlement house; http://phylliswheatley.org/ Research • Music Notes Mural: Prince has famous picture in front of it from 1977 by Robert Whitman (book Prince Pre‐fame) 94 S 10th Street o http://www.hungertv.com/feature/the‐photographer‐behind‐princes‐first‐ever‐photo‐ shoot/ Music Notes 88 10th St S Mural All Extant 1908 NA 1971‐Current No The CPG o Painted in 1972 by owners of Schmidt Music (1908); Tom Schmitt great grandson of Yes company’s founder o Van Cliburn, one of world’s finest pianists, did photo session there http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/03/30/finding‐minnesota‐the‐mystery‐musical‐mural/ o Featured in Time Magazine piece with Wendell Anderson o The notes are the third movement “Scarbo” in the piece “Gaspard de la Nuit” Research luxury hotel in 1926. At the Rathskeller in 1967 there was dancing nightly to the Bradfords, Drake Hotel 416 10th St S Hotel All Extant 1927 NA 1960s No Hotel No making their premiere US appearance (they were from England). They instituted a new rock policy in August 1969; just before that were the Four Kaye Brothers. Jeanne's List Penny Peterson Southside Club 212 11th Ave S Bordello All Extant 1890 NA 1918‐1930s? No Residential Yes Research 1971 building permit for panelling and accoustical ceiling tile in living room, dark room in Blackberry Way Recording Studio 606 13th Ave SE Recording Studio All Extant 1912 NA 1971‐ No Dwelling Yes basement Research Bob Dylan lived in apartment above during college; Photo Shoot for Babes in Toyland Loring Pasta Bar 325 14th Ave SE Restaurant Folk/Rock Extant 1923 NA 1960s‐2016 No Restaurant 1989; believed to be inspiration for Bob Dylans song "Positively 4th Street"; Majestic Yes Lounge, 323 ‐ 14th Ave. SE, Minneapolis. The January 1963 Select Twin Citian describes: "A jazz hideaway in the basement of the new Starlite Cafe in the University's Dinkytown. Research Expresso Royal 411 14th Ave SE Coffee Shop All Extant 1904 NA 1980s‐2017 No Vacant Yes Survey Vallie Pizza operated (and more accurately advertised) in the Minneapolis Star and Star Valli Pizza/The Grotto 412 14th Ave SE Restaurant Folk Extant 1929? NA 1960s No Restaurant Tribune from approximately 1958‐1989. As noted in Twin Cities Music Highlights, it was a Yes folk destination in 1962. Research Bon Appetit 421 14th Ave SE Restaurant Folk Extant NA 1990s No Restaurant Now Kafe 421; Bob Dylan used to play possibly Yes Survey 3.21.18 Basilica 88 17th St N Church All Extant 1907 NA 1995‐Current Yes Church Yes Basilica Block Party began in 1995 as a way to pay for needed renovations at the church Survey 1985‐1990/1999‐ Institute of Production Metro Studios/Master Mix Studios 300 1st Ave N Recording Studio All Extant 1887 NA Yes Yes 2007 and Recording Replacements performed here in 1990; Research Fine Line 318 1st Ave N Concert Venue All Extant NA 1990s‐Present Yes Concert Venue Yes Tom Loftus http://www.citypages.com/music/an‐oral‐history‐of‐the‐foxfire‐minneapolis‐fleeting‐and‐ beloved‐all‐ages‐rock‐club/414412323 Firefox Coffee Lounge 319 1st Ave N Coffee Shop All Extant 1907 NA 1998‐2000 No Restaurant http://www.citypages.com/music/closing‐time‐6705472; became Sursumcorda from 2000‐ Yes 2002 Staff Comments Target Center 600 1st Ave N Concert Venue All Extant 1990 NA 1990‐Present Yes Sports/entertainment venue Yes The primary venue for major Minneapolis "arena" concerts since 1990 Research • Steve McClellan longtime general manager and booker (Sigelman, 2016)p.13 First Avenue 701 1st Ave N Concert Hall All Extant 1937 NA 1970‐Current Yes Concert Hall • Began as the Depot in 1970 and run by Danny Stevens (built in 1937 as a Greyhound bus Yes station); name changed to Uncle Sam’s in 1972, then First Avenue on New Year’s Eve 1981 Research Influential noise‐punk record label. According to Tom Hazelmyer, the owner of the record label, the lablel's "main years" were spent at 2645 1st Ave S. He also noted that the label's initial Minneapolis location was out of his apartment at 2636 Lyndale Ave S, beginning in Amphetamine Reptile Records 2645 1st Ave S Record Label Punk Rock Extant 1960 NA 1992‐1998 No Offices Yes 1986. The label shared space with Twin Tone at 2541 Nicollet Ave beginning in 1989, to 1992. Hazelmyer indicated that the years at 2541 included an "important expansion period." The lable's time at 2645 1st Ave S may have been the label's peak period in Email exhange with terms of output and influence. Moved to 2200 4th St NE in 1998. record label owner "The People’s Center Theater is an intimate space that has been home to various theater People's Center 425 20th Ave S Concert Venue All Extant 1911 NA 1970s‐1990s No Clinic companies since the 1970’s. These days it hosts irregular productions, including plays, Yes musicals, dance, concerts, lectures and workshops. The theater is upstairs from the health clinic of the same name." https://www.minneapolis.org/neighborhoods/east/ Research Dead End Alley 923 22nd Ave SE Concert Venue Punk Rock Extant NA 1990s No Dwelling Yes 1906 Underground‐basement punk venue the featured local and touring bands in the 1990s. Research Sound 80 2709 25th St E Recording Studio All Extant 1971 NA 1971‐1981 No Orfield Labs Yes Research Husker Du played shows here. More recently a Latino‐focused music venue: Oldest Latino Odd Fellows Building ‐ El Nuevo Rodeo 3003 27th Ave S Concert Venue All Extant 1909 NA 1970s‐Current Yes Mixed Use building Yes Club; mixer from Paisley Park; opened in 2003 by Nicholas and Maya Lopez‐Santamaria. Listed as a potential historic resource. aka 2709 East Lake Street Research 3.2.18 Steering Knut Koupee 1428 28th St W Music Store All Extant 1915 NA ‐1984 No Mixed Use building Yes Prince's custom made Cloud guitar was built in 1983 by David Rusan at Knut Koupee; also pu Committee Meeting Northstar Inn ‐ Seventh Floor, North Star Center, 618 Second Ave. So., Minneapolis. Venues: • Rose Room. 1963 menu included chateaubriand, pompany pappillot, and breast of capon Waikiki. Dancing Friday and Saturday. Northstar Inn 618 2nd Ave S Hotel Jazz Extant 1962 NA 1960s No Office • Copper Hearth. 1963. "Stepping Out? Know What's 'In'...Jimmy Bowman is 'In"... The No Copper Hearth... is... 'In'... Northstar Inn .... is 'In'" Men only at lunchtime! 1970: Piano bar moves with the styling of Sally Saylin. • Northern Bar featured jazz during at least 1961‐64 Jeanne's List This was where Irving Williams and his Rhythmaires, formerly the Wold‐Chamberlain Navy Band, made their debut on February 2, 1946. The Club was apparently a restaurant, and Mandalay Club 347 38th St E Club All Extant No Retail No Jeanne's List the band performed in the Azure Room. The address is just across the street diagonally from Dreamland. http://www.citypages.com/music/north‐loops‐sound‐gallery‐recording‐studio‐to‐close‐ Sound Gallery 414 3rd Ave N Recording Studio All Extant 1926 NA 2003‐2015 No Mixed Use Yes 7467101 Survey http://spokesman‐recorder.com/2016/02/18/sabathani‐celebrates‐50‐years‐service‐south 3.2.18 Steering Sabathani Community Center 3805 3rd Ave S Club Latino Extant 1922 NA 1966‐Present Yes Club Yes mpls/; founded in 1966 Committee Meeting The site of the recording of an interaction with the Minneapolis police and attendees of Replacements show, memorialized at the beginning of the "Stink" record. Harmony Lofts 200 3rd St N Art studios NA Extant 1905 NA 1980s No Residential Yes Research http://www.startribune.com/eclectic‐lofts‐face‐surge‐in‐north‐loop/278185511/ The building is now the Lee Lofts. Camden Bank was located at 4169‐4147 Lyndale Ave. No. (now 705 ‐ 42nd Ave. No.) in Minneapolis. The second floor was an old ballroom, and in 1959 North High student Marsh Edelstein started to organize dances on Friday and Saturday nights. He wanted a place that was available to kids from North and Edison Highs, and its popularity spread to kids from other high schools to become one of the biggest Minneapolis hangouts. Local bands were Camden Bank 705 42nd Ave N Ballroom All Extant 1910 NA 1959 No Mixed Use booked for the dances: the DelCounts, the Underbeats, the Accents, the Trashmen, No Castaways, Avanties, etc. The Underbeats remember not being able to play their hit "Foot Stompin'" there because the kids stomped the ceiling in on the janitor in the basement ‐ Marsh does not remember this, and is a little puzzling since the dance hall was on the second floor.