Aerial Lift Bridge Posts

Dollhouse City Lift Bridge

Jul 12, 2025 No Comments

Photos of the Richardson brothers Dollhouse City taken by their mommy Nell Richardson, except the last image by the Richardson brothers. Dollhouse City is a Duluth-based psychogeographical freakout representing the city and oh yeah the universe in fractal miniature. It is our joint toy collection plus the toys of my adult daughter which I never discarded, including most of the dollhouses. This three-sided collection was displayed locally at many of Sarah Heimer’s Dioramarama shows.

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Jessie’s Duluth Drone Adventure

Dec 21, 2024 No Comments

In this recent installment of “Jessie’s Drone Adventures,” Arizona-based video storyteller Jessie Nino dips into a little Duluth harbor history before heading up the shore to Palisade Head.


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Postcard from the Aerial Lift Bridge Circa the 1960s

Oct 29, 2024 No Comments

This undated postcard, published by the W. A. Fisher Company, features a Kodachrome photo of the Aerial Lift Bridge circa maybe the early 1960s.

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Postcard from the Car of the Aerial Bridge

Jun 28, 2024 No Comments

This undated postcard from the V. O. Hammon Publishing Company shows Duluth’s Aerial Bridge circa 1905 to 1929, when a ferry car transferred people across the shipping canal.


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Postcard from the Aerial Life Bridge (Basgen Photography)

Dec 25, 2023 1 Comment

This undated postcard, published by Northern Minnesota Novelties, shows the Aerial Lift Bridge and parts of Canal Park and Park Point circa maybe 1960. The back of the card credits the aerial photo to maritime photographer Jean Basgen.

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Postcard from a Great Lakes Packet Freighter

Nov 17, 2023 No Comments

This undated postcard, published by Zenith Interstate News Company, shows a Great Lakes packet freighter passing through the Duluth Shipping Canal under the Aerial Lift Bridge.

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Riding High on the Aerial Lift Bridge

Aug 08, 2023 4 Comments

This wacky postcard was mailed 55 years ago today — Aug. 8, 1968. The caption on the back reads: “Riding High on the Famous Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth, Minnesota.”

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Watson Silver and Lift Bridge Spoons

Jul 12, 2023 1 Comment

Ad for Watson Silver

As I read some of the magazines I purchased from the Duluth Public Library, I am impressed by a sense that the library bought magazines to suit the aspirations of the Zenith city. Magazines celebrating the fancy life might feel a little out of place in a public library today, but Duluth in the 1920s was a city that had some millionaires and wanted the world to think it had more.

We can see that in the ad above, taken from an interior design magazine, for Watson Silverware.

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Corner of the Lake, 1963

Apr 28, 2023 4 Comments

This photo by Lyman E. Nylander is dated April 28, 1963 — 60 years ago today. It shows several Canal Park icons — the Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth Harbor North Breakwater Lighthouse, Uncle Harvey’s Mausoleum — but the Duluth Lakewalk is still decades away from being built.

Because of the I-35 tunnel, with Gichi-ode’ Akiing / Lake Place Park built on top of it, shooting a modern photo from this perspective would be either challenging or impossible.


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Best wishes from Cousin Mildred

Apr 03, 2023 No Comments


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Postcard from a Section of the Duluth Harbor and Railroad Yards

Mar 27, 2023 No Comments

This postcard, published by the Henricksen Agency of Duluth circa 1930, shows the Duluth waterfront, railroad yards and Aerial Lift Bridge.


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The Committee for Building a Giant Colossal Statue of Bob Dylan

Mar 23, 2023 7 Comments

Proposal: Building a Giant Colossal Statue of Bob Dylan in Lake Superior by Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge Canal.

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Highlights from “The Guys Who Never Stop Fighting”

Feb 19, 2023 No Comments

My comic strip “The Guys Who Never Stop Fighting” originally appeared a few times in the Ripsaw News in my “Crackbrained Comix” series. I revived the GWNSF for the Transistor where it ran for several years. Both publications are now defunct. Here is a gallery of ten highlights.

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Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth MN

Jan 02, 2023 1 Comment

AI illustrator Stable Diffusion from the prompt “Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, MN”


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Postcard from the Entrance to the Duluth-Superior Harbor

Sep 14, 2022 1 Comment

This postcard of the Aerial Bridge, circa 1915-1925, notes its span is “393 feet 9 inches, 135 feet high from water line” and its construction cost was $100,000. The image shows a ferry car being transferred across the canal. The bridge’s era as a transfer bridge ran from March 27, 1905 to July 1, 1929.

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