PDD Quiz: Restaurants and Bars of Yesteryear

Alison Moffat Dec 16, 2018 2 Comments Share

Reminisce about the bygone restaurants and bars of Duluth with this month’s quiz!

The next PDD quiz, reviewing the headlines of 2018, will be published on Dec. 30. Please email question suggestions to Alison Moffat at [email protected] by Dec. 27.

Results

You’re a connoisseur of local history; well done!

#1. This restaurant, formerly located at 2631 London Rd., gives its name to a particularly challenging section of Grandma’s Marathon.

The Bellows

The Flame

The Lemon Drop

Edgewater

The Lemon Drop closed in 1988.

#2. This restaurant was located at 2230 London Road from 1969 until 1997. Elysium Salon and Spa occupied the unique, rounded building from 2000 until 2012; Liberty Wealth Management of Raymond James currently occupies the building.

The Bellows

Buena Vista Sky Room

The Flame

Goldfine's Bridge Room

#3. The Classy Lumberjack, located on the 500 block of West Superior Street, was part of a district known by what nickname?

Ashtabula Heights

Midtown

DeSoto District

The Bowery

Read more about the Bowery (and the Gateway Urban Renewal Program) at Zenith City Online.

#4. This 24-hour Fourth Street eatery offered such delicacies as tacos, butter bars, and subs.

House of Donuts

Tacoasis

Jalapeno Express

Henry's Hamburgers

Reminisce about House of Donuts here.

#5. This dessert was purportedly invented in the restaurant of the Hotel La Perl, located at 501-503 W. Superior St. (a space later occupied by the Hotel Holland, pictured below).

Chocolate chip cookie

Root beer float

Pie à la mode

Banana split

Read more about the invention of pie à la mode here.

#6. This restaurant was attached to the Buena Vista Motel and offered a panoramic view of the Duluth/Superior harbor.

The Flame

Jolly Fisher

The Sky Room

Goldfine's Bridge Room

The Superior Vista condominium complex now occupies the site.

#7. The 220 E. Superior St. building that currently houses the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe has been home to many bars and restaurants over the years. What business occupied the space when Duluth repealed its ban on liqour sales?

The Red Lion

Diamond Lounge

Albert Salter Saloon

Jack's Café

Jack’s Café was among the first bars to serve alcohol after Duluth repealed Prohibition; read more at Zenith City Online.

#8. What is the name of this restaurant, which was housed in a department store that is now home to Goodwill Industries?

Sky Room

The Jolly Fisher

London Inn

The Bridge Room

Read more about Goldfine’s by the Bridge here.

#9. This restaurant, first located at 15 E. Superior St. and later at 10 W. Superior St., featured the slogan “if it swims, we have it.”

Howard's Fish House

The Jolly Fisher

The Boathouse

The Seaway

#10. Which entity currently occupies the site where the New Yorker Patio Restaurant once stood?

Sheraton Hotel

Sir Benedict's Tavern on the Lake

Duluth Public Library

Duluth Technology Village

The New Yorker Patio Restaurant was housed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel; read more about them both here.

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