On The Rocks

F.G. Nelson bought this lot from Koochiching Realty for $1,800 in April 1909 and ran a jewelry store there until 1924. It was then that the Winter brothers purchased the building and rented it to several different tenants including W.B. Arch International Dress Club, Quick Lunch, Ludwig's Hamburger Shop, Frenchy Beaulieu's Hamburger Shop, and Pushkin Insurance, until 1954 when they tore down the old building and put up the cement block one that is there now. It was occupied by the city as a municipal liquor store number one, then the Polar Bar, and then Frankie's, owned by Frank Vertnik. In 1973, Bob lessard bought the building and established the Viking Bar. In 2019, the Viking Bar was purchased by Terry Woods and Tony Cole, renovated, and reopened as On The Rocks.