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Comment on The 2023 Half-Moon Pack of Wolf Pups by Kodiak

C’mon folks, get behind these guys!!!

Comment on PDD Quiz: May 2023 by [email protected]

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...

Comment on Edgewater Resort and Waterpark taking down abandoned wing by jax.smith1006

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...

Comment on City Bottling Company? by makimoto726

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

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: Frigidaire by David Beard

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...

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: Frigidaire by Dave Sorensen

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 ...

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: Frigidaire by Chester Knob

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?

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: Frigidaire by David Beard

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.

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: Frigidaire by Ghist1

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.

Comment on Mystery Photo: Perhaps a Duluth Fraternal Group from 1908 by Matthew James

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 ...

Comment on Mystery Photo: Perhaps a Duluth Fraternal Group from 1908 by Matthew James

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...

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: The Sportsman Magazine by Ghist1

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.

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: To the Orient on Canadian Pacific by David Beard

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

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: To the Orient on Canadian Pacific by Ghist1

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).

Comment on Advertisements from the Duluth Public Library Nostalgic Newsstand Sale: To the Orient on Canadian Pacific by David Beard

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...

Comment on German restaurant in Miller Hill area circa the 1960s by Les Locklear

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

Comment on PDD Shop Talk: The Art of Clickbait by ractalfece

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 ...

Comment on Duluth Antenna Farm by dfdf

Those slides would be great to see!

Comment on Dinner at Daniel Greysolon Sieur du Luth’s House by Matthew James

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...

Comment on Dinner at Daniel Greysolon Sieur du Luth’s House by Chester Knob

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

Comment on Duluth Antenna Farm by Charlotte

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!

Comment on Placemats as Time Capsule of Duluth Poetry by mara hart

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.

Comment on Mystery Photo: Children in Front of Depression-era Duluth Home by Johanna

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.

Comment on Mystery Photo: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale by Ghist1

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.

Comment on Mystery Photo: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale by Ghist1

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

Comment on Mystery Photo: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale by Ghist1

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

Comment on Selective Focus: Clare Cooley by Bodhi

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

Comment on Every Single Homegrown 1999 Photo Available by Paul Lundgren

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...

Comment on Mystery Photo: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale by Barrett Chase

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...

Comment on Mystery Photo: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale by Paul Lundgren

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...

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