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The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig, on the city's Near West Side. It exploded into one of the deadliest and most destructive social insurgences in American history, lasting five days and surpassing the scale of Detroit's 1943 race riot 24 years earlier.
The Blind Pig opened in 1971. Tom Isaia and Jerry DelGiudice created it as a European-influenced cafe, complete with espresso/cappuccino, a unique and varied food menu, including home made soups, Italian biscotti, crostini, a full wine and beer list, and top-notch blues entertainment.
A speakeasy, also called a beer flat [1] or blind pig or blind tiger, was an illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages.
Aug. 30—CHAMPAIGN — After more than three decades as a bar owner in downtown Champaign, Chris Knight said he's ready to retire. Knight's bar, The Blind Pig Company at 120 N. Walnut St., has ...
Just a few years ago, the neighborhood had three Italian restaurants, but Europa Bistro closed to make way for Millville Pizza and The Blind Pig, while ambitious newcomer Crudo and Cotto shuttered ...
The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
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A blind pig is a type of speakeasy. Blind pig may also refer to: Blind Pig (venue), a music venue in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US; Blind Pig Records, San Francisco, US blues record label; Blind Pig, whiskey- and rum-flavoured ciders by HP Bulmer; Blind Pig Brewing Company, a branding of the Russian River Brewing Company; Blind Pigs, former name of ...