Mystery Photo: Third Street Patriots

I think this 1938 photo shows the general location, with the house in the background circled in blue. 

In terms of perspective, it seems likely that the photo was taken from the location in red, but from the address the location circled in black might be more likely. I also know there is a now overgrown stairway going to the top of the wall at that spot. I walked up it last summer thinking it would be a good vantage point for a photo. It was not; the trees on the other side of the street are too tall. 

But I knew it used to be a good spot for taking photos because I believe the location of this post is a different perspective of the same location as a postcard discussed in a post from two years ago.

While I didn't get a good photo from the top of the wall, this photo shows somewhere near the likely location from the bottom.
 

There was a Charles Curtis (one "s") that was a photographer for the Duluth News Tribune. I believe I met him when I was a photographer for the "Teen Page" the DNT did in the late 1970s.

But, according to U of M library that has a collection of his work, he was born in 1936, which seems maybe a little late for the style of dress in the picture.

You can see behind the grandmother that West Third Street passes under the Incline Railway. On a recent tour of the Steps, Doug Stevens pointed out a remnant cement support or pillar high on the cliff above Third. He believes it marks the location of the original Incline Steps, which likely also passed over Third Street in the air.
  

The stairs ascending the avenues where the incline is too steep for a roadway are a Duluth treasure. When I last lived in Duluth I had a place on Observation Hill and I used to climb the stairs and discover so many neighborhood wonders. It would be great if some of those federal infrastructure funds were directed toward rehabilitation of the avenue stairways.

Given the odd numbered address, I think this pic is flipped, right?

Like this:
  

It's a little challenging, looking at it from either direction, to determine for sure we're comparing images of the same house and which direction might be the proper perspective if we are.

I know this is an old thread but this is totally my house! This is so cool.