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Preserve Historic Dinkytown
United States
Приєднався 16 лис 2014
The Dinkytown neighborhood in Minneapolis was a crossroads, a meeting ground, a place of social and cultural ferment that would have a profound effect on life in Minnesota and the nation that continues today. Beginning in the late 1950s, with great numbers of servicemen enrolling in the University thanks to the GI bill, and continuing through the ’60s and ‘70s when the University’s student population was one of the largest in the U.S., Dinkytown was a seminal place for a cultural flowering in literature, music, and dance, as well as a transformational social and political ethic.
Spider John Koerner Interview
John Koerner came to the U of M and Dinkytown in the late 1950s. He dropped out of school and was briefly in the Marines. He returned to Dinkytown in 1959 after visiting coffee houses in Los Angeles and San Francisco and nurtured the scene in Dinkytown playing guitar at the Scholar.
He was already performing there when Bob Zimmerman (Dylan) came to Dinkytown. A few years later Koerner joined with Dave Ray and Tony Glover and recorded the classic Koerner, Ray & Glover album Blues, Rags, & Hollers which influenced a generation of musicians including the Beatles. He still performs on occasion.
Interview by Rob Hahn,
Video by Ossian Or
12/10/18
#dinkytown #minnesota #1960s #spiderjohnkoerner #daveray #tonyglover #bobdylan #beatles
He was already performing there when Bob Zimmerman (Dylan) came to Dinkytown. A few years later Koerner joined with Dave Ray and Tony Glover and recorded the classic Koerner, Ray & Glover album Blues, Rags, & Hollers which influenced a generation of musicians including the Beatles. He still performs on occasion.
Interview by Rob Hahn,
Video by Ossian Or
12/10/18
#dinkytown #minnesota #1960s #spiderjohnkoerner #daveray #tonyglover #bobdylan #beatles
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Shel Danielson Interview
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Shel Danielson had a long career as KQRS radio personality Alan Stone beginning in the early 1970’s. He first came to Dinkytown as a student in the 1960’s. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/16/18 #dinkytown #minnesota #1970s #alanstone #KQRS
Professor John Wright
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John Wright first came to Dinkytown in 1963. His efforts as a member of the Afro-American Action Committee (AAAC) after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and in the 1970 takeover of Morrill Hall on campus pushed the University to establish an African American Studies program. In 1984 he joined the U of M faculty becoming a Professor in the African American, African, and English depar...
Monte Bute Interview
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Monte Bute is a professor at Metropolitan State University who experienced the scene in Dinkytown in the late 1960s. He was involved in the Red Barn Occupation in 1970. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/27/18 #dinkytown #minnesota #redbarn #occupation
Mike Gelfand Interview
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Mike Gelfand is a journalist and radio personality who reported extensively on the Red Barn occupation in 1970 as a reporter for the Minnesota Daily. He was featured in Al Milgrom’s documentary "Dinkytown Uprising". Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 4/19/19 #dinkytown #minnesota #redbarn #occupation #minnesotadaily
Laurie Savran Interview
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Laurie Savran is an Edina-based attorney who came to Dinkytown as a U of M student in the 1960s. She married Bill Savran who owned bookshops in Dinkytown as well as the west bank. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 1/10/19 #dinkytown #minnesota #1960s
Laurel Bauer Interview
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Laurel Bauer was born in Dinkytown. Her parents owned the House of Hanson, the small grocery store in the heart of Dinkytown. She began working in the store as a child and owned it until it closed in 2013. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/18/18 #dinkytown #minnesota #houseofhanson
Kristen Eide Tollefson Interview
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Kristen Eide-Tollefson, owner of the Bookhouse in Dinkytown since the 1980’s, is the co-founder of Preserve Historic Dinkytown Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/7/18 #dinkytown #minnesota #bookhouse #1980s
Father Harry Bury Interview
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Father Harry Bury is an international peace activist Roman Catholic priest and college professor who was affiliated with the Newman Center in Dinkytown during the 1960s. It became a gathering place for anti-war activists during the Vietnam era. He has written a book chronicling his vast experience called Maverick Priest. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/11/18 #dinkytown #minnesota #c...
Erik Storlie Interview
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Erik Storlie came to Dinkytown in the late 1950’s to join the beat movement. He came too late but discovered the beginnings of the counterculture and its music. He went on to Berkely and studied Zen Buddhism. He came back to Minneapolis and was one of the founders of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center and joined the faculty of Minneapolis Community College. He is the author of Go Deep & Take P...
Dr Demento Interview
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Dr. Demento (aka Barry Hansen) came to Dinkytown in the late 1950’s. He was there during the heyday of the 10 O’Clock Scholar where John Koerner and Bob Dylan regularly played. Even back then he was collecting records, particularly unusual ones. He has become a legend as a radio broadcaster with a large following. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/27/18 #dinkytown #minnesota #1960s #b...
Doug Grina Interview
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Doug Grina is been the co-owner and Chef of Al’s Breakfast, the legendary and indescribable Minneapolis breakfast diner for over 40 years. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 1/19/19 #dinkytown #minnesota #alsbreakfast
David Baldwin Interview
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David Baldwin is a Professor of Trumpet at the University of Minnesota. He also conducts the Minnesota Brass Choir. Since the late seventies, he’s been a regular at Al’s Breakfast in Dinkytown. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 1/19/19 #dinkytown #alsbreakfast #minnesota #trumpet
Bill Tilton Interview
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Bill Tilton is a St.Paul-based attorney who first came to Dinkytown in the late 1960’s. In 1970, he became a member of the infamous “Minnesota Eight” when he went to prison along with the other seven after they were convicted of breaking into Selective Service (draft board) offices throughout the state. Interview by Rob Hahn Video by Ossian Or 12/14/18 #dinkytown #minnesotaeight #1970s #protesting
Al Milgrom Interview
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Al Milgrom could be called the Mayor of Dinkytown. He first came to Dinkytown in 1941 to attend the U of M. He joined the army during the war and lived in various places around the world but came back to stay in the 1960s. He started the University Film Society which later evolved into MSP Film Society, the sponsors of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. In 2015 his film Dinky...
he is a fascinating man when you get passed the zany,madcap persona he portrays on the radio. i've been a fan for over 50 years,and seeing him in this kind of setting is wonderful. thank you for the look into the man behind the music.
I love its hard to remember SOME details but the exact price of smokes and booze he could recall :) RIP Spider John You aare VERY missed
The moral to the story for all you kids out there is if you want to be like Spider John. Eat bananas and smoke cigarettes for 3 months.
Rest easy REspect to a legend.
Rest easy, John. Thanks for all the wonderful music.
Spider John, along with Koerner Ray & Glover, the Front Porch Swinging' Liquor Pigs, and Willie Murphy & the Bees performed at First Avenue in January 2002: ua-cam.com/video/9SINeNlGy6g/v-deo.html
If u cant be entertained here u need ta hit the time portal in Antartica and be reprogrammed USN/USMC vet..70
cool, reading 'Nothing on My Mind' now, nice account of 'Zen in America', along with 'Thank You and OK'
Great to listen to his reminiscing about the Folk Revival in Minnesota. His LP Blues Rags & Hollers with Ray & Glover is one of the touchstone LP's of the 1960's.
john is an icon of real roots music , ! when there was no " roots" music label .. he along with dave snaker ray , and tony little sun glover ,, were a terrific group , as well as solo performers ./. thank you for posting this !
I went to Hampshire College - I didn't know Jerome Liebling was at U of MN before - my school buddy studied at Hampshire with Jerome Liebling.
1950s style vinyl booth and Formica table
Weird Al Yankovich brought me here. Weird Al Yankovic Behind the Music VH1 [1999 High Quality] doc says he was inspired by Dr. Demento!!
Bobby Lenon told me how he was part of that take over of Morrill Hall.
awesome
thanks for mention of mulford q. sibley. Someone asked me about Sibley as a pacificist and I the only Sibley I knew as the former Governor!
Savant is the word you're trying to think of "they're a genius in one particular area"
Mom remembers that bookstore on the otherside of Bridgemans! ("Yeah absolutely I do") haha
I loved his show as a kid, one of my fun things I enjoyed.
Loved Spider John since the 70s when i first heard him! Has contributed more to folk and blues music then most will ever know..Thank you John!
I'm a big fan of this guy
Love this! My dad and I met him at a folk music festival a few years in a row when I was a kid in the early 00’s. he was always so fun and such a pleasure to talk to.
A boyfriend introduced me to the Doctor around 1973. It was the days of the top ten, and Weird Al was a high school kid, a little bit younger than me, who played his accordion and sang about the horrors of school cafeteria food. I love the doctor. May he be with us forever.
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