Minneapolis Police Crack Down on the Beatles!
This is a stitch! I guess the Beatles and their entourage had a hard time believing out bars closed at 1am. We’ve come along way. Now their open until 2am….
Does anybody else remember the big blown up photo of the Beatles above the cigarette machine in the old Uptown Bar?
Here’s a few fun facts about the Beatles visit to Minneapolis,
Twin Cities promoters said they sold 28,000 tickets to the Aug. 21, 1965, concert at 40,000-seat Met Stadium, home of the Twins and Vikings. Tickets cost $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50, and the Beatles were paid $50,000. After the concert, while excited fans surrounded a limo waiting outside the stadium, the Fab Four sneaked into a Falconers’ laundry truck, where they sat on folding chairs during the ride to the old Leamington Motor Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. (A parking ramp now occupies the site, near the convention center on 3rd Av. S.)
Security at the hotel was apparently understaffed, and the Beatles were hounded all night by fans, musicians and even hotel employees. Minneapolis Police Inspector Donald Dwyer told the Minneapolis Star: “Those people are the worst I have ever seen visit this city.” He threatened members of the Beatles entourage for having “lured” underage girls into their fifth-floor rooms. Dwyer threatened to take McCartney to jail unless a young woman left the room within two minutes. The blonde emerged, showing identification that she was 21 and from Cleveland.
Turtlenecks, which were part of the Beatles’ onstage wardrobe, also were sold out through the winter at Dayton’s. An ad agency paid Crump $800 for the sheets and pillowcases on which the Beatles lounged in the Twins locker room. They were cut into scraps and given away in drawings at Dayton’s stores.
The Beatles’ performance in Minnesota caused regional guitar sales to boom. “We couldn’t keep them on the walls in the store for months after the show,” said B-Sharp’s owner. “Guitar sales alone must have quintupled.”B-Sharp Music burned to the ground in May 2005, along with autographed photos of the Beatles on the wall.
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