Description In 1838, a rum trader named "Pig\'s Eye" Parrant built a small shack in a Mississippi bluff that became the first business in the city of St.
He is the author of Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow and Downtown: Minneapolis in the \'70s ..
He currently writes a regular column for Architecture MN , and for five years, Andy wrote "The Stroll," a weekly column on Twin Cities neighborhoods, art, history, and architecture in for MinnPost.
He has written about art, history, and culture for a variety of publications, including City Pages , Belt , and Mpls.
St.
Paul .
Andy Sturdevant is an artist and writer living in Minneapolis.
He is the author of Minneapolis-Saint Paul: Then and Now .
He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission.
He wrote MinnPost\'s "Cityscapes" column from 2014 to 2017, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler , and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. , is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives.
About the Author Bill Lindeke, Ph.
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Closing Time brings together stories of these spaces and the people who frequented them.
Lindeke and Sturdevant highlight neighborhood dives, downtown nightspots, and out-of-the-way hideaways, many of which continue to thrive today.
Featuring beloved bars like Matt\'s, Palmer\'s, the Payne Reliever, and Moby Dick\'s, the book also resurrects memories of long-forgotten establishments cherished in their day.
Readers are led on a multigenerational pub crawl through speakeasies, tied houses, rathskellers, cocktail lounges, gin mills, fern bars, social clubs, singles bars, gastropubs, and dives.
In Closing Time , Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant dive into tales from famous and infamous drinking establishments from throughout Twin Cities history.
Serving as neighborhood landmarks, sites of political engagement, welcoming centers for immigrants, hotbeds of criminal activity, targets of ire from church and state alike, and, of course, a place to get a drink, the story of the Taverns and Saloons of the Twin Cities is the story of the Cities themselves.
Paul and Minneapolis.
Since then, bars, taverns, saloons, and speakeasies have been part of the cultural, social, and physical landscape of St.
Paul: a saloon.
Description In 1838, a rum trader named "Pig\'s Eye" Parrant built a small shack in a Mississippi bluff that became the first business in the city of St
