Augie's Secrets

Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip by Neal Karlen

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“Augie’s Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip” book signing by author Neal Karlen this evening.

Me and my boy Streets of St. Paul will be heading down to this tonight at the Mill City Museum.

Drinks at six, presentation at seven.

You guys should come.

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Persian Palms Tavern, 109-111 Washington Ave. S. (photos via Minnesota Historical Society)

This Gateway bar was recently noted by author Neal Karlen as hangout for local Minneapolis mobsters such as Kidd Cann.

In Lost Twin Cities, Larry Millet wrote, “Not all of its drinking establishments were rotgut dives, and some—such as the Persian Palms nightclub—attracted a middle-class clientele searching, often with considerable success, for a taste of sin.”

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Augie's Bar lies behind the streetcars on Hennepin Avenue in this 1949 photo.

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Augie’s Secrets

The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip

By Neal Karlen

A treasury of family secrets exposes the seamy underbelly of Minneapolis—gangsters, gambling, brothels, and the social life of organized crime.

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