High Noon Saloon the western themed Gary Cooper film, High Noon. The building previously housed the "Buy & Sell" shop, a Madison resale shop with an unusually large neon colored fish on its roof. Numerous national and local bands practiced and recorded in the basement of the Buy & Sell shop who would eventually play upstairs in the High Noon Saloon. Turbonegro recorded two songs of their Ass Cobra album with Sean Bovine at Green Room studios in the south-east corner of the basement. No Name printing would churn out their flyers in the basement, also home to Rhetoric Records. Brainerd recorded their
Otto Kruger the supporting role of Judge Percy Mettrick, who unsuccessfully urges Will Kane to leave town in "High Noon" (1952). Kruger is also remembered for playing the villain Tobin in Alfred Hitchcock's spy film "Saboteur" (1942) and mob boss Stevens in the film noir "711 Ocean Drive" (1950). His television roles included those of Dr. Mumford in the 1959 episode "Experiments in Terror" of the NBC science fiction/adventure series "The Man and the Challenge", as Ben Tully in "Gun City" of the ABC western series, "The Rebel", and as Franklyn Malleson Ghentin in the 1961 episode "A Fool for a Client"