History Posts

Psychedelic Signatures: Rock & Roll Posters at the Tweed Museum of Art

Jun 18, 2011 1 Comment

June 21 – Jan. 15
Opening Reception on Tuesday, July 5, 4-6 p.m.

The Tweed Museum of Art is thrilled to present Psychedelic Signatures, an exhibition of classic rock music posters from the collection of Andrew and Victoria Olson. These amazing images were part of an explosion of creative energy, centered in San Francisco, where new music, light shows, and psychedelic art all came together for a few short years between 1966 and 1972.

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Art, Events, History, Music

Duluth’s Providence Building, Wangenstein & Baillie projects

Jun 15, 2011 4 Comments

The Providence Building opened in 1895 on the corner of Superior Street and Fourth Avenue West in Downtown Duluth. Originally it was a more ornate five-story building. A Northern Pacific Railroad office was located on the first floor.

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History

Where the hell’s Cooper?

Jun 12, 2011 No Comments

This article was originally published in the June 2006 issue of Minnesota Monthly magazine.

A corner of the Squirrel Cage Bar in Willow River still pays tribute to the town’s most infamous citizen. At the top of a collection of framed newspaper clippings is a computer printout asking a question that once appeared on hundreds of bumper stickers in the area: “Where the hell’s Cooper?”

U. S. Marshals are still trying to answer that question.

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Final Trip Through Original Laura MacArthur Elementary School

Jun 09, 2011 18 Comments

An open house was held at MacArthur Elementary School yesterday as the last day of classes was wrapping up. I brought my camera on a final tour before the place is demolished and turned into a field. A new MacArthur is being built across the street from the original.

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History, Photos, R.I.P. ,

Drink up

Jun 08, 2011 6 Comments

100 years ago, from the front page of the Duluth News Tribune, June 10, 1911.


History

Where in Duluth 1890?

Jun 08, 2011 5 Comments

File:Duluth MN Panorama circa 1890s.jpg
TITLE: Duluth, Minn. CALL NUMBER: PAN US GEOG – Minnesota no. 8 RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : albumen ; 4.5 x 41 in. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1886 and 1905]
RELATED NAMES: Newton, George A., photographer.

This may have been posted before but I don’t remember seeing it. I found it on one of my new favorite sites, Wikimedia Commons. Click the image to go directly to the page, you should be able to enhance it there as well.

I believe this picture was taken close to my current domicile but I can’t exactly say. Could anyone else tell where it appears to radiate from? I’d also love to see one of you photoshop wizards try overlaying modern images so I can compare side by side, but that’s asking a lot on a rare warm summer day, I know.


History, Photos

Tom’s Burned Down Café Fire

May 19, 2011 11 Comments
tom's burnt down bar

Fire at Tom’s Burned Down Cafe, May 19, 1992.


History, Restaurants ,

Duluth Master Bread & Arco Billboards

May 17, 2011 4 Comments

Back in December, the subject of the old Master Bread billboard came up in the thread about the Peerless Auto Body fire.

I’m guessing that’s the reason this showed up in my e-mail:

Does anyone know where the Master Bread billboard with the moving slices of bread coming out of the package ended up? Or, the Arco Coffee billboard with the steaming coffee being poured into the pot?

The e-mail is from former Duluthian Wayne L. Anderson.

Is anyone out there holding on to these collector’s items, or can someone confirm they were destroyed?


History

Video: Early Days of Duluth’s Friendly West End

May 13, 2011 8 Comments

Learn more about the West End / Lincoln Park neighborhood in this 38-minute video.


History, Videos ,

Duluth’s Homegrown Chicken Craze!

Apr 27, 2011 13 Comments

The first paragraph of the story above, from the April 27, 1902, Duluth News Tribune, might as well be about the Homegrown Music Festival, which represents itself with the chicken logo at left.

It is said that when the chicken raising microbe once enters the human system there is no known remedy — the victim must succumb to the inevitable. With some it is a fad and with others it is both business and pleasure but those belonging to the latter class are by far the more numerous.

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History, Music

Food from Scratch for the Zenith of the Unsalted Sea: Creating a Local Food System in Early 20th Century Duluth

Apr 26, 2011 3 Comments

How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000? This question is being asked presently in Duluth and the broader western Lake Superior region as well as in many other cities across the United States. It was also an urgent local question a century ago.

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Duluth Smelting

Apr 20, 2011 11 Comments


Rick LeBlanc of Hermantown surpassed tradition by biting the head off not just his first smelt, but about two dozen others, too, at the Lester River on May 5, 1983. (Duluth News-Tribune file photo)

At this time of year, 20 or 30+ years ago, the hot topic in Duluth and Superior would have been the status of the smelt run.

Duluth’s mostly-vanished smelting tradition has been discussed on Perfect Duluth Day at least once before. It’s been a frequently requested item for the News Tribune Attic to cover.

So, by popular demand, the latest post in the News Tribune Attic includes a bunch of photos and a couple contemporary accounts of smelting in Duluth in the early 1980s. Enjoy!


History, Outdoors

Duluth Central High School class of 1924: Mixers, fussers, boosters and bluffers

Apr 20, 2011 14 Comments

These snippets are from the 1924 edition of The Zenith, Central’s yearbook. If you wish to read the text and find it too small, click on any image to see it bigger.

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History

That’s some old ce-ment

Apr 19, 2011 15 Comments

I Google-mapped Duluth East High School today for various reasons and found that the corner of E. Eighth St. and N. 26th Ave. E. is “Minnesota’s oldest concrete pavement.”

Is that the cobblestone-y stuff back there, and is it seriously the oldest?

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History

UMD Bulldogs 2011 NCAA National Hockey Champions

Apr 09, 2011 27 Comments

2011 UMD National Championship

Bulldogs win 3-2 in overtime.

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History, Sports ,
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