Why couldn’t the MN Historical Society or the St.Paul preservationists have done something? Mr. Bauer of Hastings came to the rescue but it’s a true loss to the Metro community to be in Hastings. What shame the the local do-gooders and the Porky’s owners couldn’t have save the place for St.Paul!

The sign can be replicated, so whats the big deal.

Historical Society or preservationists???? Thats all we need is the environmentalists trying to save something as dumb as the stillwater lift bridge!! Who cares, they sold it and it’s gone!

You do realize, Mark, that preservationists are not necessarily environmentalists, right? I mean you can be an environmental preservationist but they wouldn’t be interested in Porky’s, unless Porky’s is an old growth forest or an endangered bird. Moron.

Hastings?, why bother, they may as well move it to Alaska as far away as its moving, by the time they get done it would have been easier and cost less to take pictures and build a replca of it.

I guess I have to commend the guy for saving the building, but there will be NO CHANCE for any of the traditional cruising activities to happen at the new location so, as far as I’m concerned, Porky’s, and what made it special, is still dead and gone. The new owner is probably going to park of couple of rusty non-running mid ‘50s sedans in front of it and expect people to get excited about that. From what I can tell of the place’s web site, it’s only open to the general public one weekend a year.

I wonder who got the sign? It probably went for a pretty penny on its own.

They auctioned it off, got a little over 5 grand for it.

Waste of Money to save the building, I agree with Tim, take pictures and build a replica if you want to or as others have said it’s sold and gone get over it.

Big deal that place was a death trap and a fire hazard,it had to go!

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I do agree that moving it to Hastings as an “attractrion” is dumb, but it’s a nice thought. I have many meories with my Dad there and I will miss it, but I’m sure I wont go down and see it in Hastings. I think, for me, it was the combo of Porkys, the food and University as a group, not the building. I loved going there to watch the cruising and hang out with my friends, and I would hit there for a burger sometimes too So it is sad to see it go, but it was a blast up til the last night!