PBS’ History Detectives crew shooting at two Duluth locations on Dec. 9

The best television show of all time!

Whoa, Paul, how do you even find out about this stuff?

Agreed! Love HistDet (that's what us savvy public broadcast elite call it).

Cool! I love that show!

That's cool.  I have long hoped that they might do a show about my question.  In the (hidden) levels of the original Temple Opera House, now NorShor Theater, there is an upper balcony that I have heard described as the ni**er balcony.  Some people have told me that it was in fact a "colored-only" area, but others, (such as Tony D, I think) have said that it was for Finlanders, Irish or other immigrants.  I have thought it could be helpful to learn the ultimate answer.  

Hey, maybe they're all wrong and it was just "cheap seats."  But I think this town was (and to some extent is) a lot more racist than its "Minnesota-nice" reputation suggests.

Wildgoose: this is hardly empirical evidence, but a friend of mine's father worked at the NorShor when it first opened in the 1940s and he recalls the original Orpheum and said the locals referred to the 2nd balcony as n****r heaven.

Do you know that the St. Louis County Historical Society and the Duluth Historical Society have a DVD on the commemoration of the Tiffany windows in Duluth  and that relatives of Anne Weston were there?

It would be worthwhile to see the DVD.  The library of Duluth also has a copy.