WHITEY LARSON’S WONDERBAR AND CAFÉ: 

In the 1920s and 1930s, Whitey's had so many slot machines that it resembled a club in Chicago in both appearance and sound. The establishment also housed the nation's first horseshoe-shaped bar made of stainless steel, which is still in use today at Bernie's, located on the corner of DeMers Avenue and 2nd Street NW.

According to a beer truck driver from that period, deliveries were usually made at back doors, including bootlegger deliveries—there were no secrets on the wet side of the Red River. Local police checked suspicious people as they crossed into dry North Dakota.

After the 1997 Flood, Whitey’s was moved half a block further away from the river.

Ruby on the Red: East Grand Forks, Minnesota by Dr. Stephen B. Sylvester. East Grand Forks Centennial Committee East Grand Forks, Minnesota 1988. A Meeting of the Reds, Vol. 1