C.C. Tap vs. The C.C. Club
Then
The CC Tap, Lyndale Avenue South at Twenty Sixth Street, 1961
Located snugly in the tattoos and personality section of Uptown, the C.C. Club bears the marks of the neighborhood’s longtime leather-clad tenants — the faint whiff of piss and smoke still wafting from a recently smoke-free establishment. It also retains the same aura that fomented in the rowdy shit-shows of yore — the red pleather booths still contrasting with the black leather garb sported by its clientele. Mix it up with the pierced at the bar’s brass rail, lose your shirt to the sharks at the pool table, or sip the fiery Bloody Marys on the smoking porch. You may not be a regular yet (those slots have been filled for years), but check out the jukebox — heavy on the locals — and select The Replacements’ classic “Here Comes a Regular,” Paul Westerberg’s ode to the place where you’re standing, where he spent many a night being scraped off the floor
and Now
“Then” photo source:Minnesota Historical Society’s Visual Resource Database
March 10th, 2010 at 10:39 am
[...] for Haute Dish based on its Au Pied du Cochon inspiration, a flashback to when the CC Club was the CC Tap, there’ll be a CSA fair at Stillwater’s River Market this weekend (Mar. 13-14), and [...]