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

by Neal Karlen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873518896
• ISBN13: 9780873518895
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"