For subscribers: How Minder Binders and its 'massive collection of weird junk' defined Tempe culture
That's how Steve Weiss recalls the sensory overload suspended from the walls and ceiling of Minder Binders Bar and Grill, the big red barn that got him through his freshman year at Arizona State University.
In June 1972, the year Minder Binders opened, Maggie Wilson wrote about it for The Arizona Republic Women's Forum. Minder Binders was opened by Al Ehringer and Bob Scura, two pilots who liked to drink and wanted to create a destination bar for college kids, taking the name of First Lt. Milo Minderbinder from Joseph Heller's satirical war novel"Catch-22" .
— you see what I did there — Minder Binders emerged as yet another stage for local bands, despite what Roffler calls"the Herculean effort" it took to haul your gear up"a super-weird staircase" to the balcony. "There was Long Wong's, Edsel's Attic, Hollywood Alley, and Minder Binders was definitely in that circuit," he says.
Hole played a show on the volleyball court with Veruca Salt opening on the 1994"Live Through This" tour. The following year, Nick Lowe came through. "I remember hauling our gear up those steps, man," singer-guitarist Josh Kennedy, who sums up the decor as"the college club version of Applebee's," says with a laugh.
"And Minder Binders is amongst that group. It's one of these iconic places that's just synonymous with Tempe. And even though it's been gone for a while, it remains part of the collective memory of the people who live here." And amazingly enough, when Minder Binders ended its initial run, they closed the doors and everything remained inside.
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