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former 10 o’clock scholar
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This Hollywood Video parking lot used to be the location of the beat coffee house The 10 O'Clock Scholar.
In the 1950s and 60s, the coffee shop was the locus of the folk music scene in the neighborhood. Artists that played there included Dave Ray, Spider John Koerner, Tony Glover, John Kolstad, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Murphy, Peter Ostroushko and Bob Dylan.
minnesota party tape
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This is the location of the Bob Dylan recording known as the "Minnesota Party Tape."
In 1960, teenager Cleve Petterson had purchased a reel-to-reel recorder. He hung out at the local coffee shop, and he asked a local folk musician to perform some songs. Bob Dylan agreed.
They went to this address, along with Bonnie Beecher, and "Cynthia"- another local musician and friend of Dylan's.
Petterson recorded and Dylan performed the following: "Blues Yodel No. 8," "Come See Jerusalem," "San Francisco Bay Blues," "I'm a Gambler," "Talkin' Merchant Marine," "Talkin' Hugh Brown," "Talkin' Lobbyist," "Red Rosey Bush," "Johnny I Hardly Knew You," "Jesus Christ," "Streets of Glory" and "K.C. Moan."
The recording can be heard at the Minnesota Historical Center.
gray’s campus drug
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Bob Dylan moved to the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis in the fall of 1959, and attended the University of Minnesota as a journalism major for a year. One of his apartments was above a place named Gray's Campus Drug at the corner of 14th Ave S and 4th st SE. Today, the drugstore is an upscale pasta bar.
While only in Dinkytown for 15 months before moving to New York, Bob Dylan had some formative experiences here: being introduced to folk music, trading in his electric guitar for an acoustic, hearing Woody Guthrie for the first time and reading Guthrie's book, Bound for Glory.
st. mary’s hospital
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Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman here on May 24, 1941.
His family moved to Hibbing, MN, shortly afterwards.
memorial building
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Dylan used to perform in the theater and the lobby here.
In his book Chronicles, Volume I, Dylan recounts an encounter with professional wrestler Gorgeous George as he played piano in the lobby:
"He winked and seemed to mouth the phrase, 'You're making it come alive.' I never forgot it. It was all the recognition and encouragement I would need for years."
Moral: Be nice to kids.