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Here are a few I've had in my odds and ends box. The top two are from the Duluth Fall Fest and the bottom one has a 1920 penny embedded in it (might be for a loan company that was located in the old Lyceum Theatre).
I don't remember when they stopped making buttons for Spirit Valley Days, but by 1994 they were getting lazy with the graphic design.
They still had a flare for the fancy in 1991.
This is not a button, but since there are Portorama buttons above, I thought I'd post the first-place plaque from the 1968 Portorama polo competition. Available for $1.50 (half price) at the estate sale on Jean Duluth Road.
I have to say I was puzzled by these buttons until I looked it up. Tradition, esp. in the 1970s, was that men grew beards during celebratory founding years. You bought a button to say you were growing one (Brothers of the Brush) or had to have a pin saying you had a pass (shaver's permit). And I guess just a button to not leave the ladies out of the fun. Four decades of living and I'd never heard of these before.
Where did you find that Honor Brand button??? In fact, where do you find all of the obscure buttons? I see nothing on eBay ... the closest I can come to anything is an old Duluth bumper sticker in screaming orange-and-yellow, stuck to the wall in my garage.
Well, and this.
Certainly not as cool as the buttons.
Three Denfeld buttons:
After exhaustive research (asking my brother) I was able to make sense of the last one. It features Gilbert Giddyup and Speedy McGreedy, characters in Hardee's restaurant promotions in the 1970s.
... and also an Empire 130 Sled Dog Race button. There isn't much info on the web about it, but apparently the Empire 130 was an annual race from Solon Springs to Amnicon Lake that took place roughly from 1990 to 2002.
This appears to be some sort of Duluth name-tag button. I don' t know who Signy Seeling was, but the Internet indicates she was born on Jan 24, 1909, and died in May of 1982.
First addendum to the previous comment:
The button for class officers refers to Brian Alementi and Doug Bragg, Denfeld class of 1991. Classmate Chris Raimo has the above version on a bulletin board in his office.
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