Ain’t that some shit.

The zenithcity.com article that is linked to as a page “captured” by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is, despite the byline on that page, by David Ouse.

The hottest walleye holes are always in the main shipping canals.

In response to Dulutherati,

I do understand that you think the coffee should be local. However, Kitty Town Coffee donates food to cats in need, so it fulfills the mission of this particular shop. This business also partners with Animal Allies Huma...

Feb 1981 DNT

2005

Strib, Aug. 1955

1924

1954 DNT pics

1954

1966

Appreciate the round-up every year, but the Taste of Saigon deserved many more column inches than some of the flash-in-the-pan places.

I think this is supposed to be two people facing each other, but it struck me today as looking like the ghostly presence of “The Good Shepherd” himself. Like Jesus is standing there, invisible, so his mantle appears to be standing on its own. May...

Keep these coming! A merchandise mart and passenger terminals on the docks all those years ago. What do readers think of that? Today the city is rebuilding a Bayfront quayside at the DECC to accommodate an embarkation/disembarkation point for crui...

Matthew — would you like this magical cassette? I think it’s still in the trunk of my car, with other cassettes I will send to the winds.

Also, Gabriel’s got some 8-tracks in, in the free bin. 😉

Does anyone have a copy of this video? Was my favorite.

Accidentally solved this mystery on Twitter!
 

Elite Syncopation’s Sidewalk Blues seems like a good find. Apparently it’s a collection of ragtime and early jazz hits. And it’s not on Spotify, so looks like that’s yet another Gabriel’s exclusive you have there.

Marshall Hardware was a majority owner of DSC, and both companies faced harsh blowback in 1919 for union busting.

1920. The future Shopper’s City.

1920

531 feet above sea level??? Come on, we can do better.

Hallelujah! Thank you bringing this to light. Seems it’s easier for all these poltroon city hall employees to just flat out lie about their misguided policies and poor decision-making.
No wonder no one wants to live or stay here to raise a family.

Once the land was surveyed into townships (per the land Ordinance of 1785 that you mention above), the parcels within those townships could be platted and subdivided into neighborhoods and lots. In Duluth, sometimes developers did that on a grid, ...

Thanks Waferdog, I rephrased the post to make it clear the bridge in front of the Blatnik is a railroad bridge.

I’m a bit late to the game on this one but I just want to point out that the bridge pointed out in this post is not the old Interstate Bridge. That was on the eastern side of the Blatnik Bridge. The bridge shown here is a rail bridge.

Thanks for the shout out, David.

My manuscript is a creative narrative nonfiction story about a girl in southwest Minnesota who grows up during the Great Depression and comes of age during WWII.

For now, the Substack is a way for me to create ex...

The walleye record still stands. It was caught by LeRoy Chiovitte of Hermantown, who passed away in 2019. The family donated the fish to the Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center on the Gunflint Trail, about a mile from where the fish was caught.
 

Thanks for sharing! I was glad I found the right spot, but even if I had gotten the town completely wrong, it still would have been a really great trip. Everybody that I met was really friendly (I didn’t actually ask to go upstairs in the house --...

Hey man, I was just wondering, since your videos meant a lot to me. I’m just asking for two videos, so I can keep them. One is “It’s going to be a merry christmas” and the other would be “Re: You me and all the problems with the world”

There are ...

Hi! My family moved to Saint-Germain-Laval in 1837 (a bit earlier than that, actually, but I can’t pin the year down exactly, unfortunately). I just wanted to say a quick thanks for visiting the town. It sure isn’t Duluth, Minnesota, but, to me, i...

I remember that summer very clearly! The bay was crammed full of boats waiting for the strike to end. Somewhere, I have a photo that I took at the time showing all the boats.

New as of November 2024:

First Light: Carl Gawboy, Wendy Savage & the Ojibwe Art Expo
This three-part series dives into the Anishinaabeg art scene past and present with two artists who were heavily involved in the Ojibwe Art Expo. White Earth Nat...

This is most likely from around August 1979 near the end of the Twin Ports grain millers strike as the shippers were staging ships awaiting successful contract negotiations.

I was just watching that episode a few minutes ago! I can’t believe it was 70 years ago!