city: minneapolis
gramma b’s (former)
from road warriors, rick rude, barry darsow, eddie sharkey posted in pro wrestling by nevereatshreddedwheat
A former pro wrestler named Eddie Sharkey was bartending at Gramma B's in Northeast Minneapolis in the early 1980s when a few of the young bouncers caught his eye. Just to give you an example of the big men keeping an eye on the place, Richard Rood, even at 6'3" and 235 lbs, was still outsized by several others including Joe Laurinaitis, Michael Hegstrand, Barry Darsow and John Nord. Laurinaitis, would later recall that Gramma B's, frequented by bikers, wasn't your friendly neighborhood bar.
Sharkey, who had wrestled for the AWA in the 60s, decided to start a wrestling promotion in 1982 called Pro Wrestling America. He plucked the bouncers from Gramma B's as talent, opened a school in the basement of a church and trained Rood, Laurinaitis, Hegstrand and Darsow to become pro wrestlers.
gramma b’s (former)
from road warriors, rick rude, barry darsow, eddie sharkey posted in pro wrestling by nevereatshreddedwheat
Laurinaitis (aka Animal) and Hegstrand (aka Hawk) would go on to form the Road Warriors tag team. Rood would become "Ravishing" Rick Rude, John Nord would wrestle as the Berzerker in WWF and Darsow would gain fame as Smash, one half of the tag team Demolition.
A few of the many other wrestlers later trained by Sharkey include Scott Steiner, Sean Waltman and Jerry Lynn.
Gramma B's was eventually closed in 1984 for failure to pay taxes. This spot is currently occupied by the tiki bar Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge.
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from murals, ohenry posted in art and design by prof_improbable
Near the industrial section of North Minneapolis, between the river and the freeway, there is this mural of an elephant and a bird by OHenry. That's all I know about it, but its pretty sweet.
view full location details...king of clubs (former)
from fargo posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
This is the former location of the bar where Jerry first meets up with Carl and Gaear at the beginning of Fargo. It's the only part of the movie actually set in Fargo, North Dakota, although the Coen brothers filmed the scene at the neighborhood bar King of Clubs here in Northeast Minneapolis.
The building was torn down sometime in the early 2000s to make way for an apartment complex.
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from the mary tyler moore show posted in television by crabapple
The exterior of this house in the Kenwood neighborhood of Minneapolis was used for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the show, Mary had an apartment on the third floor.
These days it's a single family home that sold for $2.8 million in 2007. View more pictures here.
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