Davenport
Raccoon Motel
Raccoon Motel started in March 2017 as a roughly 60-capacity back room inside the Triple Crown Whiskey Bar, a Daytrotter-adjacent operation Sean Moeller built out of the old Musicians Union Local 67 hall with three Quad-City partners. After the original room closed in August 2019, Moeller reopened the Raccoon Motel name in August 2021 as a standalone 200-capacity club at 315 E 2nd, a block off the Mississippi riverfront in downtown Davenport. The new room kept the same booking instinct the old one had built on Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and Sierra Ferrell, just with three times the floor.
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The 1967 Quad-Cities flap
Across several afternoons in early March 1967, residents on both sides of the Mississippi reported a silvery, stationary object hanging in the western sky over the Quad Cities. On March 9, a Moline patrolman named Fisher pulled his three-wheel motorcycle over on 16th Avenue, across from Sacred Heart Catholic School, and shot 8mm film of the object as nine-year-old Carl Petrick watched it from the schoolyard. Petrick later tracked it through a backyard telescope with his father and brother and clocked it as still motionless something like forty-five minutes after Fisher drove off. The flap drew the Air Force in: Captains Edward Orenic and Anton Kato of Project Blue Book produced a ninety-four page case file on the Quad Cities sightings, and Fisher's reel survives in Rob Mercer's Blue Book archive at The Black Vault.
- sighting
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capacity
200
year opened
2021
venue type
club
doors
tba
// market
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA
city
100,938
2024 est.
metro
381,801
2024 est.
// coordinates
315 E 2nd St, Davenport, IA 52801
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