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

Augie's Secrets

The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip

2013 • 210 pages

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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 1950s. In a few blocks between the swanky clubs and restaurants on Eighth Street and the sleazy flophouses and bars of the Gateway District, the city's shakers-and-movers and shake-down artists mingled.

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