Duluth MN Photos and Photography from Perfect Duluth Day

Iceberg Ride

Mar 31, 2019 No Comments

: Photo by Paige Reeves

: Photo by Robot Rickshaw

: Photo by Robot Rickshaw

: Set a course for…out there.

Robot Rickshaw and I sailed into our imagination on an iceberg, a doomed expedition worthy of Shackleton. Do not attempt. We selected a vessel and set sail from the Lakewalk around the Va Bene area. The wind was at our backs as we navigated down the shore past Fitger’s, where we disembarked just as our vessel began losing seaworthiness. We had sailed approximately 500 feet. However the real journey was into the depths of the human heart. Do we in fact have missing time as we suppose? Did we sail into a mist and live on the Isle of Avalon for untold years, before charting a course back to our day-to-day lives?

Outdoors, Photos Lake Superior, Lake Superior Aquaman

DM&N Railway Ore Docks in West Duluth, early 1900s

Mar 29, 2019 No Comments

This photo of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway ore docks in West Duluth is from Detroit Publishing Company. The Library of Congress dates the image as “between 1900 and 1915” and notes it shows “probably Dock No. 1 at left” and lists the three freighters in the foreground as George H. Russell, Sultan and James E. Davidson.

History, Photos Detroit Publishing Company, Ore Docks

Storming the Radisson

Mar 27, 2019 No Comments

… with Emily Rose Olson and Emily Hayes.

Art, Photos, Restaurants Bars / Drinking Establishments, Lake Superior Aquaman, Radisson Hotel

Underwater views of ice sheet breaking up

Mar 23, 2019 1 Comment

Outdoors, Photos Lake Superior, Lake Superior Aquaman

Mystery Photos #88-89: Hardware Store Women

Mar 16, 2019 2 Comments

I recently came across two photos of a couple strong Duluth women in an unidentified Duluth hardware store on Minnesota Reflections. There is no accurate date or known specific location (there is a guesstimate year span on this one of 1918-1925, which seems quite unlikely due to their stylish high-collar/big sleeve clothing). Who were they? What year was this? And would they tolerate any nonsense? Unlikely.

History, Photos Mystery Photos

Selective Focus: The People’s Free Skate Rink Freakout

Mar 09, 2019 No Comments

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A post shared by Jim Richardson (@lakesuperioraquaman) on Mar 8, 2019 at 2:17pm PST

Images from the largest freshwater skating rink in the world, featuring Friday night’s performance by the Spin Collective.

Photos Ice Skating, Instagram, Lake Superior, Selective Focus

Mystery Photos #85-87: Probably Skyline Parkway in the 1920s

Mar 03, 2019 4 Comments

An early 20th Century family photo album was recently unearthed in the Nicklawske archive room and I discovered some old Duluth photographs. I pulled three pictures from the book that included images of an automobile trip my grandfather and his sister made to Duluth in the 1920s. My grandfather, Jim Nicklawske, lived in St. Paul at the time and his sister Mae was visiting from her home in Great Falls, Mont. It appears they traveled to Duluth with a third, unidentified person who made pictures of the event.

History, Photos Mystery Photos, Skyline Parkway

Going out today to rebuild the rink

Mar 02, 2019 No Comments

This week will be cold but relatively free of precipitation, so any rinkspace recovered will likely survive a few days. It looks like a blasted moonscape out there right now, but a couple hours of shoveling will uncover the byways of our lost civilization, that culture of pure leisure we established whose spirit survives.

History, Outdoors, Photos Ice Skating, Lake Superior, Lake Superior Aquaman

Selective Focus: Duluth

Mar 01, 2019 No Comments

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A post shared by Steve Iverson (@steve.c.iverson) on Feb 27, 2019 at 5:08pm PST

According to Instagram, here’s what’s been happening in Duluth, MN.

Photos Instagram, Selective Focus

Postcard from Duluth Fire Department Engine House #1

Feb 27, 2019 No Comments

This undated postcard shows Duluth Fire Department Engine House #1 at 101 E. Third St., one of the first fire houses in the city of Duluth. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.

History, Photos Duluth Fire Department, Postcards

Today’s a great day to skate the biggest lake in the world

Feb 22, 2019 No Comments

Photo by Jon Choi

The People’s Free Skate Rink on the ice sheet near Leif Erikson Park is still open and fabulous, but the weather’s turning the next couple days so take advantage today-tomorrow while you definitely still can. I think you’ll like what we’ve done with the place, an ice maze of islands and slollums. Don’t need skates, just come bask in the view of the city and the sky. After dark the snow turns pink in the city lights, a premier hangout for the adventurous. See you there!

Outdoors, Photos Lake Superior, Lake Superior Aquaman

Selective Focus: Super Snow Moon on Lake Superior

Feb 19, 2019 No Comments

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Outdoors, Photos Instagram, Lake Superior, Selective Focus

Return of the People’s Free Skate Rink

Feb 17, 2019 No Comments

Max Moen and I did this once before in 2014. This will be open as long as weather permits maintaining it. It is on Lake Superior directly off Leif Erickson Park from the stage, about a quarter mile. It is marked with orange cones which hopefully no one will eff with. Ice is around a foot thick, you could drive a train on it. This is the premier skate course in town, a hundred feet long with many twisty paths. Even if you don’t have skates, it is a great excuse for a party. Bring bikes, kites, beach chairs, flags, capes, etc.

Outdoors, Photos Ice Skating, Lake Superior