Usually with the “Mystery Photos” series we know very little about the featured image at the start and learn a variety of details after publishing it. In this case we know a lot going in, but one detail is missing.
We know the exact date of this photo, the photography studio that captured the image, and even have a list of names of the ladies in the photo. The title of the image is “Lakeside Reunion,” but what we don’t know is what it’s a reunion of.
Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood has never had an all-girl school … at least that we are aware of. And the women in the photo seem to vary in age enough that they must have been either part of a club or employed in a female-dominated vocation, rather than being classmates.
Our best guess is this is a reunion of telephone operators, but at this point that is just a guess.
Lakeside Reunion
March 24, 1961
Photo by Gallagher’s Studio
Emma Ekholm
Florence Turnbloom
Dorothy Hannon
Mayne Beck
Leona Deetz
Lucille Beck
Blanche Peterson
Effie Dravland
Lois Bijold
Janine Everett
Esther Josephson
Marget Hood
Evelyn Wilson
Dorothy Johnson
Audrey Hultstrom
Edna Shimmin
Marion Frieland
Grace Miller
Elizabeth Rheaume
Mable Emanuelson
Marion Deck
Mable Johnson
Stella Scharnott
Fern Kolojeski
Hilda Gilbert
Florence Dwyer
Shirley Novack
Frances Green
Mary Bullyan
Patricia McClellan
Ilie Pihlaja
Jo Ann Ferizzi
Mary Latshaw
Evelyn Ling
Leone O’Connor
Dagney Corbett
Mildred Harris
Doris Kennedy
Eleanor Johnson
Shirley Williams
Violet Geving
Lois Carlson
Ruth Bonham
Betty Harney
Jane Forsyth
Evelyn Larson
Evelyn Cameron
Blanche Thomas
Dorothy Karwoski
Marie Elmgren
Gloria Dezell
Bede McMillan
Eleanor Palo
Marion Husinger
Doris Nygren
Joyce Hagen
Alice Lamo
Elma Verelius
Mary Fife
Mildred Forsberg
Mable Nummi
Barbara Sawyer
Betty Hendrickson
Ruby Levin
Pat Dahl
Aleda Johnson
Syliva Melbastad
Grace Eckholm
Alice Martinson
Jeanette Wick
Marion Precord
Doris Randell
