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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 04:21:00

Celebrated as one of the longest-running independently owned and operated music venues in the United States, First Avenue occupies a distinctively curved Art Deco building at 701 First Avenue North in downtown Minneapolis. The structure was built in 1937 as the Northland-Greyhound Bus Depot and converted into a rock club in 1970 by 25-year-old Allan Fingerhut, who invested 150,000 dollars from his family's catalogue-sales fortune into the transformation. The venue operated under several names --...