


22 apartments had to be evacuated as well. The theater had 200 patrons at the time – it reportedly seated 300. In 1935, a story about a fire identified the Beaux Arts Theater at 391 Selby. It was then renamed Beaux Arts Theater from 1933 to at least the 1950s. The address was given as 39, Selby! Their typo, not mine! Cameron died of her injuries and left a considerable sum to her husband, the paper was sure to report. Cameron were shot by a bandit after they closed the theater. It was renamed the Summit Theater from 1918 to 1933. (Not to be confused with the Rialto at 735 E. It was called the Rialto Theater from 1917 to 1918. There was an ad in November 1912 at 393 Selby. Lake Street in Minneapolis – and one in Elk River. Information about this theater comes partially from the website Cinema Treasures.

This became the address of the Chatterbox, as evidenced by a note/ad in December 1985 and another in April 1992. Businesses at the turn of the last Century included a dry good store, a plumber, a beauty parlor, a massage school (ladies only), and Korn’s Rental Emporium, which rented bicycles, all the rage at the time.ģ93 was the Bakke Variety and Department Store in 1962, before the 1965 fire. Paul Globe as a combination commercial/residential building going back to at least 1890. high stairway collapsed and six people were injured.ģ93 Selby comes up in the St. On September 26, 1950, in a report about a robbery, we learn that Robert Whiteside was the manager/bartender.ģ91 Selby was a four-story apartment building that went back to 1908, if the address stayed consistent. We see 389 Selby in a note dated March 1946 about the bar being remodeled. The first mention of the place that I found in the Minneapolis newspapers was in March 1938, but it could have gone back as far as the end of Prohibition, which was April 1933. There seem to be three addresses in play here:ģ89 Selby was the original address of the Chatterbox. Paul newspapers, so I am left with the Minneapolis newspapers, and helpful comments on Facebook. Paul is more difficult than those in Hennepin County because fewer resources are online (or I am unaware of them), including the St.
