Bryant Lake Bowl

9 photos · 2020–2025

9 photographs tagged Bryant Lake Bowl, 2020–2025.

Person riding illuminated motorcycle past Bryant Lake Bowl neon sign on Lake Street, Minneapolis. — Night photo of Bryant Lake Bowl on Lake Street in South Minneapolis.

Bryant Lake Bowl neon sign glows red on Lake Street in Minneapolis at sunset, with Pabst Blue Ribbon sign visible above. — Bryant Lake Bowl is a bar, restaurant, and theater at 810 West Lake Street in the Lyn-Lake area of Minneapolis. It opened in 1993 in a building that once housed a bowling alley, and it kept the Bryant-Lake Bowl name along with its six-lane bowling alley.

Wooden benches line the sidewalk outside Bryant Lake Bowl on Lake Street in Minneapolis at night. — Wooden benches sit outside Bryant Lake Bowl, a bowling alley and theater on Lake Street in Minneapolis. The venue opened in 1997 and includes a cabaret theater alongside its bowling lanes.

A "Welcome to Lynlake" sign marks the Lake Street commercial district in Minneapolis's Uptown neighborhood, with Bryant Lake Bowl and other businesses visible along the street. — A "Welcome to Lynlake" sign hangs over Lake Street in the Lynlake area of Uptown Minneapolis, near the intersection with Lyndale Avenue. The neighborhood takes its name from that junction and is home to Bryant Lake Bowl, a bowling alley, theater, and restaurant that opened in 1984. Diners sit at outdoor tables along the sidewalk below the sign.

Chairs stacked on tables inside Bryant Lake Bowl restaurant and bar in Minneapolis. — Bryant Lake Bowl sits at 810 W. Lake Street in Minneapolis's Uptown neighborhood. The building dates to the 1930s, originally housing a bowling alley alongside its restaurant and bar operation. Today the venue combines a full-service restaurant, cocktail bar, and a small theater space used for comedy, cabaret, and live performances. It remains one of the few bowling alleys of its era still operating in the Twin Cities.

Wooden benches line the sidewalk outside Bryant Lake Bowl on Lake Street in Minneapolis at night, illuminated by red neon signs and holiday lights. — Wooden benches sit outside Bryant Lake Bowl on Lake Street in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. The bar, restaurant, and bowling alley opened in 1993 in a building that once held a bowling alley dating to the 1930s.

Bryant-Lake Bowl on Lake Street in Minneapolis, boarded with protest graffiti beneath a lit neon sign. — Bryant-Lake Bowl on Lake Street in Minneapolis is shown boarded up at night, with its neon sign lit above plywood covered in protest graffiti. Messages painted on the boards include “Liberty and Justice for all,” “People live here,” and “Freedom.” The bowling alley, theater, and restaurant was among the Lake Street businesses that secured their storefronts during the unrest following the May 25, 2020, killing of George Floyd.

Bryant-Lake Bowl on Lake Street in Minneapolis is boarded with plywood bearing spray-painted messages including "PEOPLE LIVE HERE." — Bryant-Lake Bowl is a bowling alley, theater, and restaurant on Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis. Plywood covers its ground-floor windows, spray-painted with "PEOPLE LIVE HERE" and "DO NOT BURN." The boards went up after unrest broke out along Lake Street following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020.

National Guard truck outside boarded Bryant-Lake Bowl in Uptown Minneapolis — A Minnesota National Guard vehicle and soldier stand outside the boarded Bryant-Lake Bowl in Uptown Minneapolis on May 30, 2020. The business, a long-running bowling alley, theater, and restaurant, had covered its street-facing windows with plywood as unrest followed the killing of George Floyd. The photograph shows the LynLake commercial district under military presence in the early morning hours.

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