This is my dog!!! Thank you sooo much for taking care of him!!! He escaped from our house this morning! (My girls opened the door, and he snuck out! They have been crying and sad ever since 9:30 this morning without our crazy dog. 

I have contacted Super One, and am getting things worked out to get him back!

Thank you for being so generous and kind to our sweet dog, Marley!

I am sooo grateful and sooooooooooo appreciative!!! Marley is happy to be home!!!

Now if only the dog that's lost in the East Hillside can find its way home.

Awesome story.

But it's in Lakeside. It's referred to as "Lakeside" Super One.

I just refer to it as "the grocery store that often doesn't have the most basic of items."

Sorry, I am nit-picking about the area. From what I understand, back before the area was annexed by the city of Duluth, there were two distinct and separate communities. Lakeside and Lester Park.

Lakeside runs from approximately 40th - 50th avenues east and Lester Park is from 50th - 60th. The area has sort of morphed into one community commonly called Lakeside.

Although, I do think it is odd to call the Super One the Lakeside Super One, given that it is a block and a half or so from the Lester River and the actual park called Lester Park.

In Woodbridge and Pardee's history of duluth tome, Reverend John M. Barnett is quoted as follows: 

I left in 1861 and at that time Duluth was quite a village. The portion of the city now called Lester Park had been homesteaded by a man after whom the park was called. There were a number of gardens and the settlers were growing vegetables of nearly every kind.

In Upham's Minnesota Place Names, he also says it was named for "a pioneer." The river is also called Busabika zibi by the Ojibwe, which means "Rocky Canyon River, or the river that comes through a worn hollow place in the rock." The park itself was originally called Stearns Park. 

In the Woodbridge book, there's also an anecdote about Jay Cooke regarding the Lester River. He was talking to early settler Luke Marvin, who was just a boy at the time. 

While we were walking along he put his hand in the pocket of his coat and pulled out some fishhooks.

"Do you ever fish?" he asked, and then laughed. "That's a foolish question to ask," he said. "Who ever heard of a boy that didn't fish?"

Then he gave me the fishhooks and continued: 'I'm going to give you another piece of advice. Don't go fishing in Lester river, because there are no fish there. I know, because I fished there for two or three hours and never got a bite.

I double checked and I was wrong -- it was actually Charles Chester -- but we know nothing else about him except that crack about his wife.

How does all of this work with the liquor ban?  Would it be possible to open a bar or liquor store in the Lester Park portion?  Perhaps right on the border?

Glad I stumbled upon this extremely historical entry. I live one block away from the Super One (toward town), and it is considered the 2nd Lester Park addition (to Lakeside, I'm assuming). People do call it Lester Park out here, and consider "Lakeside" to be closer to town. 

I have never been able to find out the source for the name "Lester Park," but I have had a sneaking suspicion for quite a while that the name comes from the French "L'est," meaning "the east," because it is the easternmost park in the city. I have no data for this, though.

I don't know what it's like in other places, but there are lots of neighborhoods in Duluth that were platted but never happened. Hunters Park, which I'm very familiar with, is just this way, with streets that, if they ever existed at all, certainly don't exist now. In Morningside, too, you can see streets beyond Everett on the plat maps that were supposed to be built, but either only existed for a few years or never were built. (You can see some of the infrastructure, though, out in the trails in the woods parallel to Everett.) 

Duluth was widely believed, remember, by the owners (real estate moguls etc) to be on its way to becoming as big as Chicago. This is why we have so much fallow green space in the city limits. (I mean aside from the early designated official parks.) Gary was going to rival Gary, Indiana in its scope. There was even going to be a big industrial city across the river near Oliver called Carnegie. 

Plat maps were often about the hopes and dreams of their investors, rather than truth.