Tom’s Burned Down Café Fire

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Fire at Tom’s Burned Down Cafe, May 19, 1992.

11 Comments

  1. Paul Lundgren on May 19, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    The Tom’s Burned Down website has a note indicating the place is for sale.

    Man, owning that place could absolutely destroy my life.

  2. Cory Fechner on May 19, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Funny thing is that homepage hasn’t been updated in at least a couple years – maybe longer..

  3. Barrett Chase on May 20, 2011 at 12:26 am

    Maybe they mean it’s for sale in Secondlife.

  4. Curly Endive on May 20, 2011 at 6:45 am

    A few years back I met this Canadian in Mexico who claimed to have had way too much fun at Tom’s when he was 18 one summer, many moons ago. He said it used to be in a semi trailer or something, it must’ve burned not long after that. Why the fuck wasn’t I living at Tom’s when I was 18? If life is short, but it keeps on going, then maybe it’s really long.

  5. Cory Fechner on May 20, 2011 at 9:46 am

    I too have had ‘way too much fun’ at Tom’s and in not so many moon ago. Last summer for a matter of fact, and the summer before that and the summer before that.. well you get the gist. Tom’s is generally ‘too much fun’ … Be warned!

    This is a Tom’s state of mind a few years back.

  6. dbrewing on May 21, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.

  7. jay on May 22, 2011 at 11:51 am

    I asked Tom how much he wanted to for the place last summer. $400,000 plus inventory at cost. Sale does not include the bartenders.

  8. Paul Lundgren on May 22, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    Sounds like a good deal. I’d estimate the property to be worth $100,000, the structure to be worth $0 and the Tom’s Burned Down brand to be worth $17 million.

  9. adam on May 22, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    I think you get all the animosity of the La Pointe city council for free, too.

  10. Barrett Chase on May 22, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    La Pointe has a city council?

  11. Brent Eagleburger on June 23, 2011 at 7:29 am

    We went to see Joe Price a weekend before last at Tom’s and wish to affirm hezza badly-ass dirty blues guitarist, highly underrated/requested in these parts, Iowa is a long way though. I think I’ll try canoeing over there from now on, doesn’t look that far. Maybe a raft made from coconuts tied off to the ferry? Is Tom’s lack of schedule all part of the shtick? Credit given thence to the Transistor.

    “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit”

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