Abandoned Bar - Griffy's Tavern, Genola, MN

You have to do something significant for milestones. This is the 300th post in Four Baggers history. It comes just after the 8th anniversary of this blog going up. In that time, my self-indulgent rambling has been viewed nearly 400,000 times. Which isn’t any sort of earth shattering number, but I’m proud of it. Many of the stories I’ve written are aimed at a specific audience. Be it people in Colorado, people in Minnesota, or baseball card collectors in anywhere. Every once in a while, I have to put up a story for an audience of less than five. Maybe an audience of one? Either way, this one is for me. Because this is a story that I want to see in this format, after only ever seeing it in book form. So it’s going to be a bit longer, any maybe stranger than my typical stories, because it’s more personal. This is an exhaustive, line-by-line, rewrite of my favorite issue of Wasted Quarter. The subject of which being Griffy’s Bar in Genola, MN. Griffy’s operated in Genola, MN, for an ...