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Gremmels!

Sep 15, 2016 No Comments

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Music, Photos

The Hillsider newspaper returns, along with former GM/editor

Sep 14, 2016 No Comments

naomi-holds-hillsiderThe Hillsider, a nonprofit neighborhood newspaper aimed primarily at the Central and East Hillside of Duluth, will resume publishing in October, according to general manager and editor Naomi Yaeger.

Yaeger is returning to The Hillsider after a five-year stint as editor of the Duluth Budgeteer News. She previously served The Hillsider from May 2006 to January 2011.

“I miss journalism so bad. I miss being out there and just pulling everything together,” Yaeger said. “I enjoy listening to people and hearing their stories and I enjoy telling other people those stories in an accurate way. … I have a passion to do this.”

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Mystery Photo #41: Bonnie Gardens

Sep 14, 2016 1 Comment

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Specific location unknown. Photographer unknown. Everything unknown. Help if you can.


History, Photos

Aerial Bridge and part of Wholesale Section

Sep 07, 2016 2 Comments

Aerial Bridge and part of Wholesale Section

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History ,

A Dock at Duluth Where the Ore-fleet Coals

Sep 06, 2016 No Comments

A Dock at Duluth

1909.


History

Lobby of the Hotel Holland

Sep 04, 2016 1 Comment

Hotel Holland Lobby

Holland Hotel with streetcarThe Holland Hotel stood at 501-503 W. Superior St., where the Radisson Hotel Duluth-Harborview operates today.

Marketed as “the only fire proof hotel” in Duluth, it included the Holland Cafe, “famous for its service, soda fountain, light luncheons and grill room.”

The Holland opened in 1910 and closed in 1961. The Radisson was built in 1970.

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Where in Duluth? #150

Sep 04, 2016 9 Comments

Ice Bunker

Time for another installment of Perfect Duluth Day’s ultra-thrilling photo-trivia sensation. Where in Duluth was this shot taken?


Photos

Old Grand Marais Photos

Aug 31, 2016 5 Comments

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A collection of old Grand Marais photos. At least some of them, if not all, are believed to be shot by Milford John Humphrey.

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Duluth Mountain Biking for Beginners and Kids

Aug 30, 2016 5 Comments

Lester ParkA friend asked me last week where beginners should go for a good first-time mountain biking experience in Duluth.

“I want good views — not afraid of some hills — but nothing crazy where I would have to be an expert,” she said.

I don’t mountain bike, so I can’t answer the question … or maybe that makes me the perfect guinea pig for an experiment. Anyway, a quick search of the internet seems to suggest Lester Park has a good “easiest” trail. Is there a middle-aged klutz out there who can endorse the Lester experience as a good trail for a first-time mountain biker? Or is there somewhere better suited to persons of limited balance?


Recommendations ,

Perspective Map of Duluth in 1893

Aug 29, 2016 3 Comments

Perspective Map of the City of Duluth 1893

Similar to the “Perspective Map of Duluth in 1887,” but more recent and from a bit different angle.


History

Then and Now: St. Louis County Courthouse

Aug 23, 2016 5 Comments

Duluth Civic Center

There is no date on the above postcard image, but it appears to be 1960s-ish. The photo below is a modern-day view.

Duluth Civic Center 2016


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Where in Duluth? #148

Aug 21, 2016 3 Comments

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Time for another installment of Perfect Duluth Day’s ultra-thrilling photo-trivia sensation. Where in Duluth was this shot taken?


Photos

DTA Woodland Windjammer, Crosley Clipper, et. al.

Aug 17, 2016 3 Comments

The quest is to settle a bet. Whether there’s enough evidence so far to settle it will have to be up to the wagerers.

Former Duluthian Daniel Heinan, now living in Los Angeles, sent the following email:

My friends don’t believe that there was a DTA bus line called the Woodland Wind Jammer. There was even the Crosley Clipper. They existed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Can you help me prove them wrong?

What an inside source at the Duluth Transit Authority reports:

A long-time employee and former driver tells the tale of not just the Woodland Wind Jammer and the Crosley Clipper, but also the Proctor Pacer and the Superior Streaker. These were all express routes, designed to get people downtown as soon as possible. He thought there might have even been a contest to name them.

Alas, a search through the DTA library resulted in no physical proof, but I trust my source.

So there we have it. Anyone with hard evidence should obviously come forward, but so far the jury would have to lean heavily in favor of the Windjammer and Clipper being actual former DTA bus route names.


History ,

Mystery Photo #40: New Duluth Bus and Drivers

Aug 16, 2016 2 Comments

DTA Bus 1962 New Duluth

This photo popped up on Pinterest a while back. It’s dated 1962. Photographer unknown.

Duluth’s first diesel buses began operating in 1957 under the auspices of the Duluth-Superior Transit Company. The Duluth Transit Authority was created in 1969, so one could say the bus in the photo above is a DTA before there was a DTA.

Can anyone name any of the drivers?


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Selling promotional squares for financial remuneration

Aug 14, 2016 No Comments

always be closingAs a constantly growing media giant, Perfect Duluth Day is once again looking to expand its crew of people who sell those advertisements that are so handsomely stacked on the right column of the pages of this website (or in between the content if you are looking at PDD on a smartphone).

If you are an outgoing and enterprising person who enjoys rubbing elbows with decision makers at local businesses, click here to read the job description.

If you are a reader of PDD who hates advertising and gets nervous when reading something like this, rest assured that although PDD strives to sell more advertising to support its vast infrastructure, ads on the site will continue to be confined to appropriate space and never come in the form of a pop-up or auto-play video. We respect you too much for that.


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