Brooklyn Park venue. The site of The Palms (early ’60s) also The Zoo, Johnny Dark’s Dark Corner, then in more recent years The Thunder Dome, then Mate…
Zoo Cub ads – 1967
Dark Corner ads below – 1969, 1970
[Bill Rettberg, Jr.] The Zoo was a great spot. Spent many an evening there with And The Echoes!
[Leroy Hohman] Great memories played there several times with The Chambermen
[Baltimore Sounds] Jimmy Hughes (RIP) joked that The Palms was home of the National Green Ashtray Throwing Contest!
[Tommy Vann] This was the first gig “Tommy Vann And The Echoes” ever played—-Bill Sizemore and Billl Bateman got us this job for $5 a man! Very excited! Was then named “The Palms”!
Zoo ad – Dec. 1967 – ad from the Young World Teen to Teen – This must have been a great show with The Chaumonts and Lafayettes! I have not yet been able to find out anything about The Stantons.
