Great, great quote ... think I will copy and paste it on my Facebook wall.

Ahh markryan.  Thanks for identifying and qualifying it.  Figured it had to do with the development of Skyline coming from Snively.  Forget where a I origionally came across it. Thanks.

Because it's handy, and you might wonder:

Samuel F. Snively was elected mayor of Duluth in 1921. He was born Nov 24, 1859 in Cumberland PA and died Nov 7 1952 in Duluth. Never married. 

[Following quotes from a little booklet in the library: "Mayors of Duluth," by the St Louis Historical Society researcher Jane E. Sielaff]

"He did not have any children of his own but liked them so much that every year he spent time entertaining orphaned children of the city on a picnic or at the zoo." After graduating from Dickinson College in PA he taught school in the Cumberland Mts. but didn't like it, so decided to go to law school. Went to Philly in 1885 and worked with Benjamin Brewster, a famous lawyer "until the two railroad companies had a rate fight and offered passage to St. Paul for $1. He met a friend there who advised him to go to the head of the lakes. 

"On March 15, 1886 he arrived in Duluth. It was Judge James H Hale of municipal court who got him his first case, a damage suit brought by an early business house by a resident at {unreadable}. He lost the case in the morning but filed a counter claim that afternoon and won. After that cases came easier. In 1898 he ventured away from Duluth and into the Alaska gold fields. He gained a small fortune but he became the victim of crooks and he had to work on a boat to get to Seattle Wash. 

"Upon his return to Duluth he went into real estate and acquired a substantial amount of farm land." Some of that was bought by the NPRR and some sold to several "colonization companies."
 
"With the sale of these he constructed a roadway which is now known as Highway 2. He also obtained interests in land near Mt. Iron. There stands a mine named after him. He also had Snively Blvd constructed in 1901, (now known as Snively Road) but it was not completed until 1931. 

"In the late 1890s he was appointed to the Water Works board. In the 1880s he was a heavy investor in real estate... amassed several fortunes in his lifetime and became known as 'the plunger.' At one time he held a financial interest in the Duluth Herald."  Major accomplishments as mayor: prime developer of our park system. Launched plan to give work to the unemployed. Held office for 16 yrs. and "not once was called dishonest. One of his main desires was to beautify Duluth." When he retired he became the "city's superintendent of boulevards" ... "At times, [he] built these with his own hands and at the age of 83 yrs old was the head of the Park Departments Boulevard Bureau until the age of 88."

I wrote this last century but I forget that Minnesota History has put this online. If you want to learn all about Sam Snively you can download a pdf of my history about him and Skyline Parkway here:

Snively's Road

Thanks, bluenewt

And the view is delicious with a little butter and maple syrup on it.