Videos

Video Archive: KBJR Topline News and the Cheers party at the Western Tavern in 1993

This is the complete Topline News broadcast from May 20, 1993. You’ll notice it’s pretty short; that’s because from 1992 to 1998 KBJR experimented with an abbreviated 10 p.m. news program that ran about six minutes, not counting commercials, followed by a re-run of Roseanne with sports scores at bottom screen.
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Duluth Playhouse Centennial Season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7G8i6dVbxs

The Duluth Playhouse is celebrating its 100th season in 2013-’14.

East & West Duluth (September Holga)

Video by Eric Fryc.

The Nonchalant Jaunt and other 2003 stuff

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The Perfect Duluth Day Archives for September 2003 feature a number of posts about the Nonchalant Jaunt, an event in which seven hearty PDDers walked the length of Duluth, from the Wabegon Supper Club in the Superior Township to the Lakeview Castle in the Duluth Township.
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Lake Superior Aquaman Highlight Reel

Summer 2013 at various Lake Superior beaches and Lester River swimming holes.

Here’s a link to all the original videos if you missed any.

Video Archive: Meet the Bulldogs

In case you were wondering about the 1987 basketball team roster.

Balloon Festival Update

Lake Superior Aquaman Patrols Undersea Landscape

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwcX7kg_i_0

Christine Hoberg — “All This Hate”

Superior native Christine Hoberg has just released this video for “All That Hate” from her new album World Within. The video was produced by Duluth-based Lakefront Films.

Lake Superior Aquaman in: A Tight Spot

Crystal Cerulean Lake Superior vs. Duluth Aquaman

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2dfgu-KhDw

Low covers Rihanna’s “Stay”

iTunes proceeds go to Rock for Kids.

John Mark Nelson – “The Moon and Stars”

httpv://youtu.be/YbnXm7_3nMY

John Mark Nelson’s video, “The Moon and Stars,” shot in Duluth aboard the William A. Irvin, is getting some MTV love.

Real Shorts — Ray and the Bees

httpv://vimeo.com/74080496

Ray Lopez is a beekeeper. And he’d probably be willing to help you keep bees, too.

Part of the Real Shorts series telling true stories in under two minutes.

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Video Archive: David Lee Roth 1987 Duluth Concert Promo

There’s already a post on PDD about the two Van Halen shows in Duluth, so here’s some love for ol’ Diamond Dave … or as the TV spot says “Dynamite.”

Mr. Nice in: We Have to Roll Together

NSFW weekly episode. Mr. Nice gives back to the community.

Here is a Duluth group doing jujutsu and judo since the 1980s

Labyrinthine boulder field

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMRi-qlNhk

So much fun to swim here. Go to Perkins on London Road, cut down to lake, go 50 yards to the right.

Cult Trailer – A Feature Film Shot in Duluth

[This post originally contained an embedded video that is no longer available at its source.]

Over the summer, I shot my first feature-length film. I made sure to feature some shots of the city in the trailer. I hope you enjoy it!

Aquaman Saves the City

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1vPhSfJJo

I saw broken bottles underwater at a popular Lake Superior swimming spot in Duluth. A few days later I was able to return and used my powers for good to clean up after the bad guys. You can either wade in at the shallow end of this spot, or rock-jump in at the deep end, either way there was broken glass within reach of innocent bare feet. It was the remains of at least five separate beer bottles, probably from one douchebag at a party of cowards.

I spent about three hours collecting all the glass I could in dives lasting 30-45 seconds each with rests to catch my breath in between. I couldn’t get it all, there were many shards too small to pick up, but they will wash away most easily into the deep. All of it would have turned into smooth beach glass sooner or later, or been sucked out to sea by the next storm, but in the meantime this mess sat there for several days and could have easily lacerated someone. I was very careful picking it up, but obviously it was a little risky and the wave action was moving me around quite a bit (good thing my Atlantean physiology is adapted to the pressure at great depths, so my skin can even resist machine gun fire).

Be warned: I protect this lake, and those who come here. If I catch anyone breaking glass at the beach I will not hesitate to call the police. Either that or I will telepathically summon a giant catfish to eat you.

Local news spot here.

Mr. Nice in: Real Good Deal

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1AYOgFEoWs

NSFW weekly episode.

Video Archive: Flipping the bird across Duluth, from east to west, decade to decade

The video above, by Mark Ryan, is a collection of film footage from 1970 of dudes hanging out at the old London Inn and other places in eastern Duluth, flipping off the camera. It first appeared on PDD in 2008.

I brought it back for this post because I just came across some footage I shot in the halls of Denfeld on Oct. 17, 1988, that I hope is of similar quality.

Mr. Nice in: Blooper Reel

Your weekly Nice. NSFW.

Video Auto Play

Apparently, because of some changes at YouTube, some videos on PDD have been autoplaying under some circumstances, in some browsers. That should never happen, and we apologize profusely if it has happened to you.

Please, if you ever open a page on PDD and a video starts playing without you asking it to, e-mail help @ perfectduluthday.com with a note about what video it is and what browser you are using and we’ll either fix it or take the post down.

That’s our PDD no-auto-play guarantee, for what it’s worth.

My Close Call at the Deeps

I had a foolish close call cliff-jumping, but got it on video. Here’s the bone-chilling tale of hubris and naked luck: hottest day of the year but the lake was ice cold so I went to the cliff-jumping swimming hole on Lester River known as the Deeps. I’d made a video there before of jumping from up high, but I hadn’t jumped from the highest point yet, so I tried it. (more…)