Augies Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip

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Augie's secrets -- "Not bad, not bad" -- Hennepin Avenue -- The bad old days -- Kid Cann -- The Minneapolis line -- Davie Berman -- Live at Augie's theatre lounge -- Ink -- Whatever happened to Isadore Blumenfeld? -- The fall of Minneapolis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.;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. Augie's secrets -- "Not bad, not bad" -- Hennepin Avenue -- The bad old days -- Kid Cann -- The Minneapolis line -- Davie Berman -- Live at Augie's theatre lounge -- Ink -- Whatever happened to Isadore Blumenfeld? -- The fall of Minneapolis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.