Minneapolis, MN. Downtown 1978.

[@JupiterMoon19]

Wow. So different. And look- everyone is so thin compared to now. Whoever is watching this, I hope you have good memories and are making many more memories with peace in your heart.

[@drewyflynn6778]

Talking about people's thinness?! I mean, can't say you're wrong lol but if you're FROM Minneapolis....yikes, much more than people's weight has changed. Not all in a good way either

[@JohnPaulsonJohnisaStegosaurus]

now it's a ghost town with half empty skyscrapers and "luxury condos", a smattering of corporate owned bars... no bookstores, no record stores, no buskers, still too many preachers, no fast food, everything's closed on sunday. the homeless and addicts and mentally ill are still being neglected. oh but there's a billion dollar tax funded giant paper weight footballl stadium. all the culture is lost.

[@MegaMkmiller]

Hennepin Ave had a lot of character and characters back then. Now it's gentrified, boring, stale. No small bars where you can do some drinking in peace. There are some places that are OK, but crime has made the place lame even on Friday and Sat night. Sad.

[@ricochetey]

You said it man! Now we just need to keep raising taxes and putting in more light rails to ship people into the metro to work in the empty highrises!

[@ricochetey]

​@@MegaMkmillerNothing is open anymore last time I drove from Stillwater at 9pm on a Saturday for a late supper the restaurant wouldn't seat us an hour before closing. It's a joke better to stay home

[@JohnPaulsonJohnisaStegosaurus]

@@ricochetey the highways are perpetually jammed by commuters-- cars are not a sustainable form of transport. while the effects of the trains may not be felt right away, and a pro-police, pro-corporate news media keep hyping up crime like the worst crimes aren't happening on wall street, there are plenty of studies and real-life examples that show the benefits of building more public transportation. while there should also be a push to allow for more telecommuting, there are all sorts of service industry jobs that can't do that and must travel from their home to work. who wants to sit in traffic and get stressed out by rude and dangerous drivers everywhere? it's ludicrous. i take the bus and train regularly, and can't wait to visit, say, eden prairie, reading a book through the entire voyage.

[@MegaMkmiller]

@@ricochetey I'm going dt Minneapolis in a very little while to take in the NLCS and ALCS. It will probably be about half as fun as it once was. Maybe not even that. Every now and then, I run into some freakin' fun people. But that's just it: Not many people.

[@jchow5966]

It eas great. I miss Daytons’ department store.

[@luzcaicedo3580]

They didn't have did back then

[@esmooth300]

@@luzcaicedo3580 Your not an original Minneapolis person, Dayton's just came back again, but it was around dating back to the 1960s I believe.

[@nuracaicedo2632]

Me too

[@ShiftaelV2]

I miss Shinders, and Pop's Arcade WAYYY moreeee

[@DanaTheInsane]

@@luzcaicedo3580 Daytons opened in 1902. We went there every Xmas in the late 60s and 70s.

[@mathuetax]

Aww yah, Dave Moore!

[@anthonythompson9741]

This is awesome! Hennepin Ave. in '78 and Dave Moore. what could be better?!

[@taosholly]

Some fun memories!

[@respecttheface7152]

Wonder if these people ever thought we would be watching them 40 Years later ?

[@shiddy.]

do you think that now?

[@kathrynfagerlie7608]

My Dad actually just came across this video and realized he was in it! At the 14:30 mark. I can tell you he never thought he would be on it lol

[@kelle0285]

on their telephone 📞. 😁

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

No we didn't.

[@Weezy10580]

Such a dump now

[@tracyseymour7553]

That cop with the porn mustache... Totally '70's!!

[@aliallaboutme]

Minneapolis was actually lit wow

[@shadowthesi]

It still is, well, it was until the pandemic started

[@aliallaboutme]

@@shadowthesi you think so??? Idk I mean yes there’s more urbanization and buildings going up but it’s kind of becoming more segregated and unaffordable. All these building height restrictions, and crazy high taxes on businesses made people run to the suburbs thats why we have Bloomington and Edina. I feel like Minneapolis and Saint Paul could’ve blew up development wise so many missed opportunities.

[@kasjamm]

@@aliallaboutme That's happened in all cities

[@aliallaboutme]

@@kasjamm what do you mean?? The high taxes and businesses moving to the suburbs?

[@nuracaicedo2632]

Yeah they cleaned it up a lot now it ain't nothing

[@Agent77X]

Hah! Dave Moore here!😁👍😃 Downtown Minneapolis was a vibrant and cool Downtown in the 1970s!😁👍🔥

[@barbaraolsem5150]

Hey Dave I was born and raised in MPLS. My mom was your biggest fan! I'll never forget my teens were the 70s and it was super! I wish she was here to see this video!

[@glam_goth6662]

It was great everywhere!

[@thefoxdoctor1072]

I miss cruising on Friday night and then on Saturday washing and detailing my car for another night of cruising until the sun came up on Sunday morning. The good ole days!

[@redstain1]

I miss the seedy Hennepin Ave.

[@anthonythompson9741]

It's still there between 4th and 5th. : )

[@evandaniel4640]

@@anthonythompson9741 My old stomping grounds. :,)

[@astropioneer3296]

Absolutely. Bring y'ass!

[@erikmorgan8800]

Yes, I totally forgot.. Good old Dave Moore.. Hennipen Ave actually looked a lot more attractive and inviting back then, then it does now.. I was pretty little in the mid to late seventies, but I can recall a lot of bright lights of all kinds, a lot of different colors, flashing, and some were chasing lights.. I recognized Schinder Bros. Which became Schinders, and I remember Wax Museum and Great American Music.. I've eaten at that same McDonald's many times.. Kind of a trip down memory lane.

[@islandbee]

6:42 Weird Al Yankovic as a McDonald's closing shift manager.

[@billhampton7395]

Dave Moore!

[@heterosectional]

A gem lost forever. No replacement.

[@taosholly]

See my entry for fun!

[@jchow5966]

I kived going to the Aquatenial parada every July there. Moby Dicks was a cool bar. I miss the Nankin.

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

Oh yeah! The OG Nankin with the tile front!!! Every Xmas when I was a kid ( early 70s ) my parents took me to Daytons 8th Floor to see Santa and then the Nankin for dinner! Magical!!!

[@DanaTheInsane]

@@tinfoilmagnolia3134 So sad I never got to eat there. By the time I could afford it it was gone.

[@mathuetax]

Nankin was awesome!

[@Gail1Marie]

Boy, do I ever miss the Nankin. I always ordered the #8, mushroom chow mein, egg fooyong, and fried rice for $4.75. I have a postcard with a picture of the Nankin I remember (with the purple tile front) at 20 S. 7th Street. (It was originally across the street, but I was too young to remember that restaurant.) As a kid, I loved the fountain under the stairs with a turtle in it. I'd pay $10,000 to be able to walk down the Seventh Street of 1978 and eat at the Nankin and the Forum Cafeteria. They tore down architecturally interesting buildings and put up bland, uninteresting concrete and glass blocks. What a loss.

[@davidlodiemyer5698]

I was 12 back in 78, when you could go downtown by yourself and not get hassled by thugs at the bus stop. Now its murderapolis all over again.

[@andrewklitz261]

A dime cup of coffee wow.

[@MrJrNixon]

That was great! Very nostalgic.

[@tescherman3048]

Hennepin Avenue today is but a shadow of what it was. Yes, it was edgy and sometimes dangerous. But it was full of life and emotion. It was a place where anything could happen. Now it's just another sanitized corporate corridor trying very hard to be lively without any passion for life. People today think Minneapolis is Liberal. But it's a Liberal city with heavy constraints on life itself. It's not boring. But it sure as hell is trying to be.

[@esmooth300]

I miss the late 1980s to mid 1990s, those were some great times back then. Shinders (right to the comic book section) Pops Arcade, Sam Goody, JJ Flash clothing store, Barnes & Nobles, India Bazaar next to the Mcdonald's, I could continue. I reminisce of my father and the good friends that I lost 😥 Who ever is reading, be good, be kind, be loving, but be cautious, also don't live in fear, failing is apart of success, it's ok to fail but don't remain stagnant, always keep learning, and adjusting with the times. Life is short, you never know when your time will expire, go hard, and F what your friends and family think. I'm not sure why I'm sharing this or who will even read it, but remember, your worth it.

[@Kelle0284]

I have to care about what my family thinks.

[@esmooth300]

@@Kelle0284 Well, if they have your best interest, and don't do things to harm you (verbal or physically) then it's OK 🙂

[@PapagenoMF]

@@Kelle0284 I can be your familllly Kelle

[@astropioneer3296]

Skyway Movie Theater.

[@hollydugal5299]

This is some history. Times have changed but we still face the same issues today.

[@DanaTheInsane]

I can SMELL that Shinders!

[@astropioneer3296]

Shinders was the internet before the internet.

[@jonathanfourten9556]

i miss the ability to be unseen in the past. no one is unseen anymore, few are free anymore.

[@MikeJohnson-nr4mh]

Well, Dave didn't need to worry about getting carjacked back then!

[@johnbosco0347]

Dave Moore , Minnesota Icon,

[@danielhutchinson6604]

I went up Hennipin 1979 to get a train from the Station, and it was gone.... The fact that a Federal Reserve Bank assumed that position, where People used to wait for a ride to go far away, seems to say something about Capitalism making changes in our lives. I never cared a whole lot for Capitalism..... Loved that Train Station....

[@Boredofcrafting]

6:14 this guy calling people Simps before it was cool.

[@JaxonSmithers]

7:41 dude watching too many Chuck Norris movies and episodes of Kung Fu.

[@islandbee]

Somewhere Prince is riding in his purple motorcycle O-+->

[@taosholly]

Prince hung out and played at Rudolphs BBQ, Franklin and Lyndale. This was the outskirts of the Hennepin Ave. territory. I lived in the apartments next door. He used to play a lot, no cover, back in the day!

[@astropioneer3296]

@@taosholly Dang, I miss those ribs and Texas Toast! Didn't know Prince played there before hitting it big.

[@taosholly]

@@astropioneer3296 Very lucky me! My dad was Mousey/Mouseys Bar, 1102 Hennepin. Dave Moore was a friend of Mousey...they used to play handball at the downtown mens' Y. Dave was a good customer at the bar, where I worked mostly day shifts. He used to do Bedtime Newz Sealy mattress commercials with our 'customers' hauling mattresses' out the door. Jim Klobuchar also used to frequent the bar. The journalists, especially Dave, used to get a kick out of the street characters, as well as my dad. I was able to see so many of the music greats, at Sams/New City Opera House....$3.50 a ticket.......check out old Minneapolis Music site as well as Neal Bond, great Minneapolis Music Historian. Getting happy as I remember so many stories. I worked as a bartender in a lot of the crazy spots. Take care and Aloha from Hilo, Hawaii.

[@psalwasser]

seen dave a time or two in the mainfloor of the longhorn. he didnt always go home straight after work..........tom waits wrote a song called 5th and hennepin and its was pretty accurate depiction. thanks dave and tom

[@leppak42088]

Dang I forgot how good Dave Moore was

[@Gail1Marie]

My best Hennepin Avenue memory is the time I went to the midnight showing of "Flesh Gordon" at the Skyway theater. It was winter, and a lot of drunks paid $2 to get out of the cold. One little guy had a sportsman's flask/bottle of cheap whisky that a very large security guard in the theater was trying to confiscate. The guard lumbered after him, but the little guy was too quick. He got onto the stage and ran back and forth; the stage looked too flimsy to support the guard, and he knew it. Finally, a second guard arrived, and they chased the little guy down the aisle. He fell flat on his face, but held his flask aloft like the Statue of Liberty holding her torch. They finally threw him out. Trust me, that show was way better than the movie!

[@scarpfish]

"the pimps and the simps". Wow, the word simp was used way back in 1978. You learn something new every day.

[@Frogs84]

That’s the mind fuh for me!

[@nsxdarin]

3:38 guy casually browsing the skin mags

[@alex2405777]

I don't know why, but actually enjoyed watching this. This is a totally different generation, compared to now, where everyone is always in their phone and into other technology.

[@ecmpls6262]

So true..

[@marysunshine5587]

And now that this generation is rioting downtown. I miss Minneapolis in the 70s

[@danielgardner394]

I was never in fear back then. Project 2025? Be afraid, be very afraid! VOTE BLUE! Project 2025 weirdos want to shut down every right you have. VOTE BLUE!

[@davidmurray5399]

Moby Dick's, "It's a whale of a drink!"; When I went downtown in those days, it was usually to Jay's Longhorn, and later First Avenue.

[@lindamymixtap8730]

Isn't that? Dave channel 4, holy cow so long ago I was 27 at the time if this goes back 40 years 🤔😱🩷☺️

[@BroSlayzer]

"You want to do something, get some young girls off the streets." Things haven't changed in the 612 since the 70's. 612

[@lavalampluva55401]

Moby Dick's would give you a free drink, if you turned in your AA chip.

[@astropioneer3296]

Oh, man! That''s one heinous customer retention program.

[@minnesotamarine9861]

I watched a guy get shot outside Mobys on evening. Was a shady place to be sure.

[@DTM-Books]

It's fine to be nostalgic for the old "urban" Minneapolis, but so much of the old downtown was just one sleazy dive after another. It definitely had character, though. Block E was like Minnesota's repressed unconscious id brought into the light. I do wish the city had saved the buildings and preserved the urban design, instead of just bulldozing everything and turning downtown into a soulless, empty suburban office park. Things have really been moving forward in the past decade, thanks to the growth of the North Loop and around Gutherie and the stadiums. But the timid suburban mindset really needs to go. And they really need to get rid of those damned hamster tubes. Oh, well. Great video!

[@ecmpls6262]

Daniel Thomas MacInnes You are right, I love old brick buildings!

[@DanaTheInsane]

I like those tubes. Its fucking colder than a brass hat downtown in January.

[@anthonythompson9741]

They actually *did* save one of those buildings; a theater on 7th was moved to Hennepin Ave., between 5th and 6th.

[@esmooth300]

I agree, you have to keep the old, you can't just decimate everything, the originality of the city will be lost 😭

[@HAL9000s3]

Wow! I noticed Clarence right away. If you left out the front you were usually OK. The lot out back was a different story.

[@Garyjorges79]

I know clearance Kramer..I just worked on his Van last month..He bounced at Moby Dicks Bar. Tough Bar..

[@HAL9000s3]

@@Garyjorges79 Yup. If I remember correctly, MPD had at least one squad car parked in front, just in case.

[@Garyjorges79]

Yeah..My dad said he hauled alot of people of the Back door. My dad worked along there with Big Clearance Kramer.

[@HAL9000s3]

@@Garyjorges79 One of the worst things came when the city was trying to clean things up a bit. I saw a photo of Clarence in a heinous sport coat after they suspended Moby's license (I think). Check out the Facebook page. Fun stuff!

[@blainenodes8182]

Oh yeah... Moby's 1973-75temember the back hallway to the Ally? So many customers beat down by Clarence and crew...closing x at Moby's was theatre in itself,( cheap drinks too) .

[@angiegus86]

Gawwshdammit, Moby's.

[@ecmpls6262]

I had some good times in Moby's, lol, that was a fun bar!

[@FLIPPER1439]

Reason we are hearing ,and seeing more is due to Technology--Internet + cellphones 📱 I lived in Minneapolis 1964-1967. Hennepin Ave was called RED LIGHT DISTRICT. Crime was bad!

[@Agent77X]

Do not recalled the much crime other then drugs snd prostitution! nonviolent crimes!

[@americanidle76]

Block E should never have been touched.

[@astropioneer3296]

Amen.

[@daveurbik7751]

06:43 I didn't know Weird Al Yankovic worked at that McDonald's!

[@nuracaicedo2632]

I remember when I was in downtown Minneapolis. I went in a bowling alley and then they had a big arcade and then they had McDonald's everything Taco Bell.. I was like around 14 15..❤️🌍

[@RandyTheWildHorse]

I used to go to the Block E area to buy things at Shinders. People used to buy and sell all kinds of illegal drugs on the sidewalks too. Mostly fake stuff.

[@nolanmartin4813]

and now shinders is some posh diner with rooftop seating. Crazy how quick things go.

[@TheLAGopher]

Same here. In 1978, I was buying my comic books there as a 10-year-old. I saw Star Wars at the old Mann theater just south of Shinders on 7th.

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

You need to talk to certain clerk after he got off work- he sold a little coke on the side!

[@niknikktm]

@@TheLAGopher I bought comics there from the time I was about 12 (1976) until it moved across the street.. I've seen just about everything on Block E through the years. Lets face it, the combination of Moby Dicks and the adult magazine shops did bring in a good part of the riff raff but they aren't exclusively to blame. There were other dive bars and magazine shops on other blocks in the area too. Part of the attraction was Hennepin Avenue itself. It was Minneapolis' version of "the strip", well lit up with lots of neon, theater's, night clubs ,and strip clubs.

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

Your mistake was not asking P.S. that worked at Shinders for some coke! Fuck the sidewalk!

[@ikeyschultz4969]

Pops Arcade, Skyway Lounge….another era gone.

[@esmooth300]

My brothers and I use to go there all the time back in 1988 and the early 1990s, then we would go to the Mcdonald's on Hennepin afterwards and get cheeseburgers for like 80 cents.

[@nuracaicedo2632]

I remember that used to let you still smoke cigarettes inside City center was bumping but now I want to clean it safe environment which I miss the old 1990s downtown Minneapolis ain't s*** now it's boring..🌍

[@danielhutchinson6604]

Rifle Sport was around there I think? I have not been in that one since 1955. Might not look the same as when Uncle Johnnie owned it.....

[@respecttheface7152]

My dad used to drink at all those old bars down there

[@thaddeusjameson1119]

So did mine and my grandpa

[@davidlodiemyer5698]

Same

[@taosholly]

I probably waited on them at Mouseys! Bless 'em.

[@optifonik]

And I know one guy who still does so today.

[@joesiwek949]

The good old days.

[@nuracaicedo2632]

Yes it was I messed up good old days so much.. in 1990 I was sweet 16 but it really wasn't that sweet believe me.. but I remember going to downtown Minneapolis when City center was bumping that was back then when they used to let you smoke cigarettes inside.. I remember when they had that bowling alley and they have shenders they don't have that no more they took everything I remember that movie theater they had in the skyway and they had a game works it's gone now it's just a mayo clinic there now..

[@jimsdeb]

My uncle is in this video walking with his friend.

[@ecmpls6262]

No way!

[@jimsdeb]

@@ecmpls6262 he is tho

[@jchow5966]

Northern Lighta record store. City Center.

[@astropioneer3296]

Spent loads of money on import CD singles there. Staff were awesome introducing this suburban rube to all kinds of great dance music like Altern8, KLF. Let It Be Records, too.

[@1sam-ef]

Vehicles in the 70's sure was Ugly!

[@thaddeusjameson1119]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[@HAL9000s3]

@@thaddeusjameson1119 But the AMC cars were just butt-ugly.

[@davidlodiemyer5698]

And the 80's, 90's . . .

[@barbaraolsem5150]

Not the muscle cars man!

[@Danimal-D-Animal]

I walk in downtown, the northside, the South side, and all over Saint Paul. I've never been shot, stabbed, raped or robbed in either city. I'm a dorky white guy who says hello to everybody I pass. Even the thugs are polite to me.

[@drewhunkins7192]

This is a fantastic 16 minutes of story

[@leppak42088]

This is a time machine

[@luzcaicedo3580]

I was 4 year's old in 1978..

[@kelle0285]

Me too. 😁

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

Notice the old Rifle Sport?

[@tsunamiiwinterz-px7oz]

haha drinking age was 18 and my buddy and I loved hanging at Mobys and drinking. Uncle Sams was still playing disco music with a multicolored dancefloor and on Tuesdays they had Tequila sunrises for 25 cents

[@GenX_-um2ct]

I remember the Red city busses!

[@Weezy10580]

Where’s all the Somalis?

[@anthonynelson9136]

Scotty's was an expensive place to drink and dance, but I always had a good time there.

[@pauls1190]

Went from worrying about drunks and bar fights now in 2020 just getting shot for walking down the street!

[@sambrownsings]

That literally never happens

[@optifonik]

it's June 2023 and I walk all over the city core at all hours without any sense of fear.

[@FLIPPER1439]

Human trafficking was going on and Al Palmquist broke the connection from Minnesota to New York👉 1978--Book available ‘Minnesota Connection’ News just didn’t cover this Billion dollar 💵 sex trade! God is using people willing to expose what is really going on inAmerica 🇺🇸 + other countries. *****SOUND OF FREEDOM***** is a Wake up ⬆️ call revealing human trafficking bringing in more money 💰 then Drugs!

[@richdarvis1051]

@@sambrownsingsyeah black people are peaceful scholars that Paul guy is obviously a paranoid boomer racist

[@wanderduck3]

Bro, it was called Murderapolis then.

[@partlow85]

Uncle Rico @ 11:25

[@TheMaxx111]

10:15 Is that a cocaine mirror?

[@barnman420]

I believe so. It's also hard to get intoxicated when you do a line every 45 min.

[@nathanstoebe4647]

First precinct: burned to the ground. Lake Street: Walgreens, Popeyes, several small private businesses burned to the ground. What a world we live in today.

[@AlexF-qx7co]

A couple of bar fights and someone intoxicated was probably considered a busy night for police back then. Little did they know what would happen 42 years later.

[@MrScribblypoo]

@@AlexF-qx7co Fenty addicts be like 'wanna see what real drug addiction looks like?' The days of MPD chasing stoners through a parking garage be over. The fenty broke the system.

[@jamescox2749]

strange how i rember were some of the store use to be

[@Dollsteak69]

It's worse today.

[@SmoothOperator612]

Cool and interesting to see what the city I grew up in looked like when my dad was growing up. I will always Love this city despite its flaws.

[@zachmasterzach]

lol those two guys dressed like pimps at 3:54

[@nolanmartin4813]

early MPLS hipsters

[@bkb0859]

My last look of downtown before they flew me out.

[@jenmercier5970]

I lived in nearby Orono back in those days

[@Frogs84]

I thought simps was a new term!

[@izakteaz]

Wow thank you

[@heterosectional]

Great many thanks! Only on KZbin!

[@ecmpls6262]

Roger Regor You are welcome!

[@CherzTube]

3/4 of the way through this long video and no mention of guns/bullets. HOWEVER need for more cops sounds familiar.

[@Agent77X]

These Downtown businessmen actually ended up destroying the nightlife of Minneapolis!😂

[@averagegalaxygamer4430]

Good old Minneapolis before all the fucking crime and shit

[@DanaTheInsane]

He said after watching a video of all the crime and shit.

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

BEFORE there was crime? Block E and Hennepin in general Downtown was notorious for pimps sex trafficking Minnesota girls to NYC for prostitution. In NY there was an area called The Minnesota Strip.

[@drewyflynn6778]

Well now let's not start making things up now.

[@lisasmith767]

Those old school street preachers had guts.

[@Kelle0284]

Lots of people had guts.

[@DanaTheInsane]

Annoying bastards. Sadly we still have plenty of them.

[@666BurnThemPrisons]

Bunch of softies they wouldn't survive Hennepin in 2022 on gang.

[@esmooth300]

😑 Most of you guys are a bunch of PUNKS, you wouldn't survive back in then 70s, 80s and early 90s, those men fought with their fist back then, even the gangsters. They fought and went home afterwards, you cowards use guns like a bunch of sissys to solve your problems, your mothers raised cowards.

[@taosholly]

Don't kid yourself.....signed, Mouseys' daughter.

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Gangs are gay.