Happy birthday to the late, great Joey Ramone; born on this day in 1951. Here’s The Ramones playing at the State Theater in 1978.
This is Weezy and my Grandma. Grandma “Lowry” will be 90 in a month or so. I dig the intergenerational stuff. Plus we chatted lots about our family’s history of contribution/detribution to the city of Minneapolis.
“Motorcycle Chariot float at a 1937 University of Minnesota parade. (Engineer’s Day?)”
(image via MHS Visual Resources Database)
“May Day 1937 parade in downtown Minneapolis.”
Happy International Workers Day.
(image via MHS Visual Resources Database)
The CC Club has long been a drinkers’ haven in south Minneapolis, a dim intersection of different scenes and people from across the city. Few establishments in the Twin Cities have seen more glasses emptied, cigarettes s
Great stories here.
This downtown Minneapolis club opened in 1937 as a Greyhound depot, but the history of First Avenue as we know it begins with Prince. Throughout the Eighties, he and the Revolution were sort of the house band here – you can see it in all the famous concert scenes in Purple Rain. The club was also a key staging ground for the city’s punk-and-hardcore scene, starring the Replacements, Husker Du and Soul Asylum. Today’s fans still love the no-frills vibe and killer acoustics, even if waiting in line during a Minnesota winter can be a bummer. “Plus,” says hip-hop star Talib Kweli, a regular headliner, “I saw [famous rapper’s name redacted] deck an undercover cop and hop in a cab and get away at the club.”
