John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
by
James Eli Shiffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue...