C’mon folks, get behind these guys!!!

Thanks for including the Duluth Armory funding fact in your survey. The Armory Arts and Music Center us set to receive a $4.5 million grant from an appropriation authorized by the Legislature in the 2023 Capital Investment General Fund bill -- not...

Safety is of utmost importance during the demolition and renovation process of the Edgewater Resort and Waterpark in Duluth. It is crucial for the hotel owners to prioritize safety measures, including securing the construction site, implementing s...

Hi all. City Bottling Co. was my grandfather’s company, Theodore Maki. Happy to provide additional details if anyone is interested.

Word wizard.

Chester: can one read these ads uncomplicated by political or social values as they have changed over time? Yes. Read the original post.

Want to discuss the images, including these questions of political or social values? Read the comments.

It’s...

The Knob is sounding awfully defensive. At a time when the rights of women and minorities are under assault, what’s the problem with commenting on historic abuses? Old writing sometimes reflects the sexism and bigotry of the past, and present-day ...

Is there a single item, a lone topic, one relic of time itself that can be seen and even commented upon without it being run through your very clouded Guilt Glasses? Is anything at all safe from Willie Wokie?

Centennial Belles!

UWS Promethean article from 1979:

I am torn. The racism and sexism in some of these ads would be hilarious, were there not people still alive today who were alive when this was a legit sales pitch. It’s within the formative memories of people I pass at the grocer.

Ah, yes. When convincing MY husband to buy me a refrigerator, making the “Woman Next Door take notice” is definitely one of my shopping criteria. So much pleasure.

Continuing my use of AI to try to provide some extra information about the photo, I described the sashes to ChatGPT and got a response that aligned with the guess in the post:

Based on your description, it sounds like the individuals in the photo ...

So I typed this into the language translation software DeepL, probably getting more wrong than I got right:

Kom du ser sakid das senda dis en hel hop smed pamila bekent. Kom het just nie lanna ack jas dricker eftermiddags kaffe min misses har pac...

Ironic that the ad is for a magazine that the library didn’t carry, to my knowledge at least. Looks like it didn’t last very long.

I’m a bad scholar — I know it was from Sunset Magazine, prior to 1940, that’s all.

What year and publication? I too have noticed many ads for train travel, and how convenient and efficient it was (probably from the 1920s and ’30s).

PS: If the use of “oriental” strikes you as embedded in racist imaginations of people remote from the early 20th century American, it is. There are a hundred explanations of “orientalism” as an intellectual term for the ways that the West imagined...

The Chalet 4833 Miller Trunk Hwy. Hermantown. Found by talking with a relative who lives in Duluth.

So of course, I searched for it and it’s right there at the top of the results. It’s great to see the surveillance capitalism business model crumbling. You used to be able to use an algorithm to do the job of an editor. You used to be able to ...

Those slides would be great to see!

Thanks. If I could have stayed as a guest in Sieur Du Luth’s old bedroom that would have saved me some money, but I think it would have been a bit drafty. As I mentioned in the post with directions, I don’t live that far away, roughly the equivale...

Wow, that’s very in-depth and interesting. So, how much do we owe you? Because there were most certainly some significant expenses.

My brother has about 4 to 7 slides my dad took of the first antennas. He sold TVs I remember our whole family drove there with him. I need to get them from my brother and then share them!

David, this is Mara Hart. I was involved in starting Lake Superior Writers, and formerly was married to poet Ray Smith. Now living in New Bedford, MA. If you wish, feel free to contact me.

Great find!

The girl to the left is a copy of my sisters child who is now 17 years old. It is insane!!! Would be so cool to know more about it. We live in Sweden.

Never gets old.

Also, apparently in 1977, Walter Mondale was the speaker. Tickets cost $17.00. May 26th at the Arena. The library has the original letter from the Chamber of Commerce inviting members that year.

Also, the ladies who helped plan it had some fashionable hair.

The Duluth Public Library has a whole clipping file on this event. Mr. Peale’s lecture was summarized in the next day’s paper.

Lovely article! Abigail did an excellent job sharing Clare’s rich and fascinating story.

Thanks Cork! I sometimes forget that Morgan LaFate (Rachel Olson) preceded Trinity (Carrie Mohn) in the First Ladies.

Below are two pics that could be confused for Homegrown 1999 photos but actually precede the festival.

Via Jason Cork is this ph...

The Duluth News Tribune’s Bygones column from May 25, 2013, says that Ethel (Mrs. Clifford) Hedman was named Duluth’s 1973 Woman of the Year at the annual Women’s Duluth Day luncheon in the Arena on May 24, 1973. Mrs. Hedman was cited for her effo...

The “Duluth Day Luncheon Committee records” biographical/historical blurb in the Archives and Special Collections at UMD’s Kathryn A. Martin Library reads as follows:

The Duluth Day Luncheon was first held in 1918. The Duluth Day Luncheon Committe...