Re: [Mpls] Cafe Dinapoli Can we keep it open for just a few months, to get one last go around?

[Dorie Rae Gallagher]

My first job was at Great Northern Depot as a waitress the summer '62 before 
going to MCAD. Great life lessons
were learned from Red Caps, a boss that pinched, and getting up at 3am to 
walk from 22nd  1st to the Depot

at 17.

Second job that year was doing the Christmas windows at Woolworths and the 
third started at Bridgemans on 7th/Henn.
during the basketball season. Wages were .94 cents plus tips...hamburgers 20 
cents, w/cheese 25 and a hot
fudge banana sundae .40. The cops tipped well, sometimes .50 cents for a .50 
cent item. Little ladies gave us
gave us Jesus Saves cards tucked under their coffee cups, which contributed 
no monetary value to the $575 tuition at

the art school...now $22,000.00.

Every Friday night, after working to one, we would go to Cafe DiNapoli with 
tip money to have the treat of
the week...never on Sat. night since that was date night. It always looked 
worn, the tall booths, the lighting,
but the same people and the food was great. Downtown was exciting 
thenthe 620 club where all
the sport figures would hang out, the Great Northern Market, where you 
walked around bushels of food on
the wood chip floor, watching the windows above the 620 club for activities 
from the cone station at Bridgemans!!
The Forum, Powers, there was so much to see and do...there was a shooting 
right on 7th and Hennepin one
Sunday morning when I was opening up the store...he laided there for a long 
time before anyone came. That leaves
an impressionCafe DiNapoli is of the last..hate to see it go, but 
thenI would rather experience a fish market
than Block e... Oh well...It's sunday morning meaning it's Mel o Glaze 
time!


dorie gallagher/nokomis




I'm willing to bet that most of our listers have been to Cafe Dinap at 
least once.  Tell us your memory.  I took my first girlfriend to Cafe 
Dinap.  I remember it was Halloween night

Craig




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[Mpls] Cafe Dinapoli Can we keep it open for just a few months, to get one last go around?

[Craig Miller]

I'm willing to bet that most of our listers have been to Cafe Dinap at least 
once.  Tell us your memory.  I took my first girlfriend to Cafe Dinap.  I 
remember it was Halloween night in 1980.   The costumes on the street and 
inside were astounding, bordering on sinister.  I took no other lady to that 
establishment until the one who became my bride came with me.


Is there anything we can do to keep it open for just a little while?

Craig Miller
Rogers
Former Camdeninte and Fultonite
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Re: [Mpls] Cafe Dinapoli Can we keep it open for just a few months, to get one last go around?

[Barbara Lickness]

When I was young I used to visit with my aunt and uncle for the weekend. They 
lived in Elliot Park. My uncle worked at Cafe' DiNapoli. I remember how cool I 
thought it was that the apartment buildings they lived in were connected 
underground by tunnels with other buildings. I used to walk downtown with my 
aunt and meet my uncle at his job and eat lunch. I really thought that was a 
special occasion. I always thought it was cool because their meatballs were 
bigger than the ones my mother made. Then we would walk up the street to the 
Great Northern Market. I remember it used to stink like fish. Sometimes we 
would get on the bus and go to Hoves. It took me years to figure out Hoves was 
Lunds.
 
I didn't know Cafe' DiNapoli was closing. My nephew will bum out. He loves it 
there.
 
Thanks for letting us know Craig.
 
Barb Lickness
Whittier  


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