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The first of two public meetings about the scoping documents for a state Environmental Impact Statement for the Tamarack Mining Project will be held from...

There is something currently filming at Denfeld right now. All I know is it's an indie film. Don't remember genre.

Does anyone know the story behind that bas relief of a secretive woman holding a finger to her lips? That is very... odd.

That’s so awesome. I used to go to school there.

Is anyone doing history on Park Point past the airport? So much information being lost.

😂😂😂 You are the first to mention it!

I would like to know more about this woman myself. I'm writing a book about Poets Laureate in Minnesota and she is almost invisible.

I like the pooping gulls.

This reply-to-a-specific-comment feature is indeed new, but not exactly new. It's always been (or has long been) an option in WordPress and I think comes...

Thanks for mentioning that, Gina. Images in comments were one of the more tricky things we had to deal with in this migration. I think...

My comment on the Underwood coffee post last week doesn't show the image I uploaded... do you think that was a one-off or did something...

Comment thingy is neato.

@matthew - Thanks! - let us know if you see anything weird.

And I see right away that I can reply to a specific comment. In this case my own. That's new.

Congratulations! Looks good - I only see the plus sides at the moment but I'll keep an eye out for the bugs.

Love this postcard.

Very well done! Thanks for all the hard work to put these together.

That corner on the First Street level was for many decades the Board of Trade Smoke Shop. They apparently added a coffee shop by 1970....

Wonderful, what a delight! Great job, all of you.

Can you believe the Cross Eyed Snakes were doing their Devil in a Kornhole shtick a quarter century ago now? Jesus.

I have a cassette tape of Clint Wait Jr. I don't know that he had any albums (33.3). I'm looking for a compilation of country...

Super excited.

So Park State Bank at 120 Mount Royal Shopping Circle used to be Somebody's House. The exterior has been heavily modified over the years but...

Crown Restaurant, 1904.

I would like to rent a 20×20 foot plot.

I have long been fascinated by that intersection, which looks so different now. It's interesting that pretty much every postcard I have seen looks East...

New as of January 2026: Bumpkin Angling "Big Wave" Dave Adams and Shane "The Kentucky Freight Train" talk about fishing and the culture surrounding outdoor...

And so many more reasons coming in parts two through ten - glad to see that I have some interested readers!

Good question. I couldn't figure out why it was taken down and couldn't find it anywhere else other than this shortened version on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@imperatur_yt/video/7621635959196536086...

Why did the uploader remove the video? I enjoyed it so much the first time that I came back for a reprise only to find...

Hello i would like a 20 X 40 if still available? BUT I won't be able to pay the 40 till the 1st? But most...

In the 2026 to 1907 comparison, I'll take 2026. More women and less horse manure being just two reasons.

This is outstanding historical research and context. I love it. Thanks for sharing.

At the 31-second mark, is that Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan? Or A.I. Bob Dylan? Or A.I. Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan?

The street looked better back then. The city was more than likely better also.

New as of March 2026: The Healing Pause Dr. Christina Kintop explores the transition of perimenopause and menopause, offering natural approaches to hormonal balance, gut...

New as of March 2026:

The ones you have seen were hand-painted by individuals--one in particular that I know of, but I'm sure others have done their own. So, not...

Acronym parodies are kind of a separate thing, but I should probably mention DTA stands for Drunk Tourists Aboard.

New as of January 2026: Spartan Strong: With the Mic On Hosted by School District of Superior Superintendent Dr. Amy Starzecki, this biweekly production focuses...

The Beal building is one of Duluth's oldest structures. It was originally called the Burrows Block and was built in 1891. The address is 301–303...

The former WEBC building is now the Beal Building (its original name when it was built?) -- located on the northwest corner of Third Avenue...

And another: Ashland Price's In From the Storm is "a supernatural romance largely set on a passenger ship headed from Sault Ste. Marie to Duluth...

Thank you so much for sharing these. I don't love the term slave chains, but I enjoy seeing these old advertisements immensely!

That is a robust list! Thank you for including my book here, among so many interesting titles.

[AI overview of this post:] The "last duckbilled dinosaur in Duluth" is a creative, fictional narrative featured on Perfect Duluth Day about a Hadrosaur facing...

Beautiful song! Great video, too.

It seems very much like contemporary Duluth to me. Yes, we've lost the old Boat Club, Spalding, Lyceum, old Curling Club, Incline Railway, a funky...

You're a trooper, Paul! Rehabilitation is a tall task. Btw, my sign in went swimmingly. Whatever you have done, it worked! Thank you.

Impressive, unlike contemporary Duluth.

Shane Lamontagne! A blast from the past! I shot the photo in 1994 and it landed in a shoebox in the attic until rediscovered in...

The first photo: I recognize exactly where that photo was taken. I recognize the people in the photo. I am the person in front bent...

I started working at HBJ in the accounting department in February 1974 and transferred to its Fotronics (graphics) department in 1975 as the company moved...

Much hope and love for the Greenery Cafe & Bakery. That space was so vibrant when I moved here, with a comic shop, the Snyders,...

New as of January 2026: Blazing Trail: Superior Hiking Trail Stories North Shore Community Radio WTIP partners with the Superior Hiking Trail Association for this...

Duluth Casualty Association!

I'm impressed with the find. Thanks for showing your work.

Handwriting looks to me like ten rather than three days. Cool the house is still standing.

I found it: 2534 Woodland Ave. It's still there, and looks about the same as it did in 1910! At least according to Zillow. How...

Alternate version.

New as of November 2025: Mom & Me: Climbing Mountains Together Ileini Hirt and her mother Ashley navigate mental health struggles, relationships and life. Available...

Doh!

Okay, well, as the newly self-appointed expert on Edwin Radcliffe I feel somewhat compelled to note that Radcliffe and Willoughby did design a Duluth Public...

I'm sure they are friends, right?

Thanks Cork! I couldn't remember what that album art was and thought that release might not actually have a cover image, but now that you've...

Courtesy Double Barrel/Chip Rogers.

Baller.

Yes, definitive.

It has been a long time since this list was started, but I wanted to add ours.

Or it could be "had one puncture on the way" because he got a flat? Tires (and roads) were pretty bad back then, so it...

If this was sent in 1925, Joseph would have been 55 years old and Charlotte would have been 42. They lived on a dairy farm....

The name is probably Weichselbaum — there was a resort in Lakeville owned by that rather large family, but I don't find any Wes. It...

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