Duluth Button Collection
By Paul Lundgren on Jul 1, 2012 in History, Sappy Stuff
If you have a button to add, upload it to the comments. If it’s a general Duluth button I’ll add it to the gallery; if it’s a button for a specific Duluth entity like UMD hockey or Spirit Valley Days, I’ll keep them out of the gallery but let them shine in the comments.
It’s one of the nice things about the Internet — we can all have a button collection without having to have a button collection.
The “We’re Duluth and proud of it” is begging to be put on a shirt. Any vendors or presses have such a product?
“Shut up and take my money.”
Well, there was this one.
Fred Tyson!
I want to know what patriotic event happened in Duluth from April 2-8 in 1984.EDIT: And with about 30 seconds on Google, I found out it was the Air Canada Silver Broom world men’s curling championship.
The Shoppers’ City button, from the post “Zayre’s Shoppers’ City Discount Department Store in West Duluth.”
Here are a few I’ve had in my odds and ends box. The top two are from the Duluth Fall Fest and the bottom one has a 1920 penny embedded in it (might be for a loan company that was located in the old Lyceum Theatre).
I feel as though this button is especially ironic now.
Here are two Albert Woolson buttons from the collection at Veterans’ Memorial Hall at the Depot.
College of St. Scholastica centennial button:
I don’t remember when they stopped making buttons for Spirit Valley Days, but by 1994 they were getting lazy with the graphic design.
They still had a flare for the fancy in 1991.
Geek Prom! French Larry!