Augie's Secrets
The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip
There's an old Yiddish saying: two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. But two living people could keep a secret-as long as one of them was Augie.Augie Ratner, the proprietor of Augie's Theater Lounge & Bar on Hennepin Avenue, was the unofficial mayor of Minneapolis's downtown strip in the 1940s and '50s. In a few blocks between the swanky clubs and restaurants on Eighth Street and the sleazy flophouses and bars of the Gateway District, the city's shakers-and-movers and shake-down artists mingled. Gangsters and celebrities, comedians and politicians, the rich and the famous and the infamous-all of them met at Augie's: Jimmy H…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-87351-897-0
- EAN: 9780873518970
- Produktnummer: 22135532
- Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'189 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Neal Karlen, who has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, is the author or co-author of six books.
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