Obituary: Veteran and businessman who ran Riverview Supper Club, dies at 83 – The popular north Minneapolis nightclub, the Riverview Supper Club, was the place to go for outstanding entertainment and to develop community from the moment it debuted in 1980 until it shuttered two decades later.
Jimmy Fuller Jr., who took over the business from his father, aided by booking national acts like Doc Severinsen, B.B. King, and Bobby Womack, as well as providing a venue for local musicians and disc jockeys just starting out. He also organized yearly golf tournaments that quickly became sold-out affairs.
According to startribune.com, “He was a happy person who loved to bring people together,” said Whitney Terrill, his granddaughter. “It was a hit with him. He wished he could run the Riverview indefinitely.”
Fuller dissolved the family-run business in 2000 after a succession of gunshots, including one in which a couple of the club’s unarmed security officers and a guest were injured.
“Grandpa was not a fan of violence,” Terrill explained. “It was difficult for him to keep going.” After refusing cancer treatment, Fuller died in late February at his home in north Minneapolis. He was 83 years old when he died.
