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		<title>Donnie Dirk&#8217;s Zombie Den</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Hawthorne, Minneapolis, MN) Formerly Stand-Up Frank&#8217;s Scooter&#8217;s 1153rd bar, first visited in 2016. I have a strict rule that I cannot count count a bar on this list if it&#8217;s...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <i>(Hawthorne, Minneapolis, MN)</i> <br /><span style="font-size:14px;color:#908033">Formerly <em>Stand-Up Frank&#8217;s</em></span></p>
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<p><b style="font-size:14px;color: #40B033;">Scooter&#8217;s 1153rd bar, first visited in 2016.</b></nobr> <br /><br> <center> <img class='img600' src="http://www.scootersbars.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1153.jpg" alt="Donnie Dirk's Zombie Den, Minneapolis"> </center> <br /> I have a strict rule that I cannot count count a bar on this list if it&#8217;s sinply a new name/owner for a bar I have previously visited, <i>unless</i> the bar has changed so drastically that it would be unreasonable to say that they are indeed the same bar.   This is the case here for what was <a href="/2006/08/stand-up-franks/">Stand-Up Frank&#8217;s</a> when I visited this very same building exactly ten years ago today. </p>
<p>Now painted black (had originally been red, then later lime green), the bar is decked out in a full on horror theme.   &#8220;Grindhouse&#8221; was playing on TV. </p>
<p>If you sit in a booth there is no need to get up to place your order, each table has a phone that calls the bartender. </p>
<p>Failing to notice a tasty-looking gore-themed mixed drink on the menu until it was too late, I had a Hell Kitchen (pale ale) by Insight Brewing. </p>
<p>Note:   It was much darker in here than my photos make it look, I had to enhance the lighting to make details visible. </p>
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<p>The light switch for the men&#8217;s room is located outside the door, a fact which neither I not the man who was already in there had noticed (but I later remembered this from 10 years ago).  Thankfully there was a large enough peeing surface that it would have been almost impossible to miss in the darkness.  (Again, I enhanced the lighting on this photo, the light here is from a small red dim bulb and a street light outside.) <br /><img class='img600' alt="Donnie Dirk's Zombie Den, Minneapolis" border=0 src="http://www.scootersbars.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1153_5.jpg"> </p>
<p>Make sure you never have to poop here, because it appears this chain across the stall is the only privacy you&#8217;re going to get. <br /><img class='img600' alt="Donnie Dirk's Zombie Den, Minneapolis" border=0 src="http://www.scootersbars.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1153_6.jpg"> </p>
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