The most amazing thing new Duluth residents don’t realize is what Canal Park looked like just 40 years ago.
Archive.org includes a catalog for Standard Salt and Cement Company, a business that used to be located in Canal Park.
Standard Salt and Cement building circa 1896. Photo from the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives & Special Collections.
This is what the building looked like around the turn of the previous century.
Standard Salt and Cement Company in 1966. Photo by Arthur Roberts from the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives & Special Collections.
This is what it looked like in 1966.
I think that site is a parking lot now, yeah?
