Well, that didn't last long.

The party is over at the Forum. The glitzy art deco chandeliers went dark on Saturday night, just a few week's shy of the restaurant's one-year anniversary.

First-time restaurateur Jim Ringo and his wife Stefanie revived the moribound historic treasure last spring. The historic 1930 interior had been sitting empty for nearly five years.

Sign of the times: Forum quietly served its last dinner on Saturday night.

"It took my breath away," said Jim Ringo last year, recounting the first time he walked through the giddy interior, which is located on 7th Street near Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. "It was supposed to be a 15-minute walk-through, and I stayed an hour."

The Ringos' version of the Forum -- named for the space's original tenant, the Forum Cafeteria -- opened a few weeks after the couple opened their first (and, as it turned out, ill-fated) restaurant, Ringo, in St. Louis Park's West End development. That enterprise closed eight months later, and is now home to Sopranos Italian Kitchen.

The Forum"s 81-year history includes a long life as its original tenant, the Forum Cafeteria. When that closed in 1975, the building was briefly Scottie's on Seventh, a disco and bar. The building was demolished in 1979 to make way for the mammoth City Center project, but not before the Forum's priceless interior was dismantled and then later re-installed in the complex, roughly 100 feet from its original location.

Since then, it has been home to a reincarnation of Scottie's, along with a parade of restaurant tenants, most notably a nine-year run as Goodfellow's.