żartujesz sobie ze mnie? Nye’s is closing?

I spent a couple of days in the twin cities back in 1970 on business, and a couple of nights in Nye's. This is one of the great party bars in America. I watched it the other night on Diners, Drive Inns and Dives. It looked just like it did 44 years ago! 

Like many long time establishments they are slowly but surely fading into the sunset.

I like that they're razing Nye's for more condos.  Nice touch MPLS.  So many memories of a toothless Ruth and some filthy red booths that couldn't quite supplant the feeling of everything else I'd loved about an era long gone. If I'd known then that the 90's were my 60's, I might've treated them with more respect. But they were so sloppy.  It's like America was that Duluth car sliding downhill backwards through a busy intersection while taking its own date rape drug and wondering why it was sore in the morning.  For you hipsters too young to remember, it was reasonable to assume the world really would end on Y2K.   Here we are again though, having to wait another 12 years for Jesus to return and send Paul Lundgren back to hell. It just doesn't seem fair.

Nye's pushes closing date to Jan 2016.

The Last Days of Nye's - Photo Exhibit

City Pages: The Nye's piano bar will be reborn -- at the very same address!