Talk:Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis

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I have just created an account and have edited the copy for this page. My editing amounted to deleting the referance to Bob Dylan as a music personality associated with this area. Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) played and sang rather briefly at a coffeehouse called "The Scholar" when he lived in the area known as Dinkytown. I'm told he lived upstairs from what was then Gray's Drug and now is the Loring Pasta Bar.

But the Scholar left Dinkytown and was reincarnated on the West Bank (Cedar-Riverside). When it opened its new doors, Dylan had already left the Twin Cities for New York, and he never performed at the iteration of the Scholar that was a prominent home for folk musicians in the late 1960s.

Several historically important venues have disappeared from the West Bank, including the Scholar and the infamous Triangle Bar. Together they represented the two faces of the West Bank music scene: the Scholar was about coffee and folk music, primarily Leo Kottke; the Triangle was about beer and blues, and the figure I associate most with the place is Willie Murphy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mnstoryteller (talk • contribs) 12:57, March 19, 2007.