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Coolerator: Acclaimed in Hollywood, built in Duluth

Nov 10, 2016 5 Comments

The Coolerator Company manufactured refrigerators and sold them in every state and 74 foreign nations. It began in 1908 as the Duluth Showcase Company, a manufacturer of store fixtures in Downtown Duluth. Operations moved to 50th Avenue West and Wadena Street in 1921. The focus switched to iceboxes in 1928 and the business was renamed Duluth Refrigerator Company. It became the Coolerator Company in 1932 and opened a manufacturing plant in New Duluth in 1935.

History Coolerator, Manufacturing, West Duluth

Reader publisher buys former West Theater

Oct 27, 2016 3 Comments

A repurposed West Duluth movie theater has been sold to the publisher of an alternative weekly newspaper. The historic West Theater building at 317-319 N. Central Avenue was purchased earlier this month by Duluth Reader founder and publisher Robert Boone, operating as Paladin Properties LLC. The building was previously owned by David Orman, whose now-defunct promotional products business Raven & Associates headquartered there from 2012 to 2014.

News and Current Affairs West and Alhambra Theaters, West Duluth

Duluth 1200 Fund Advance West Loan Program

Sep 09, 2016 No Comments

A new loan program designed to spur the revitalization of older stock commercial buildings and create jobs in West Duluth and West End business districts is detailed in a brochure released by the city of Duluth and the Duluth 1200 Fund Board. The program is intended to help with commercial building acquisition or improvements in the form of a loan up to $50,000 with opportunity to have up to one half of the balance forgiven, assuming program requirements are met.

The maximum amount of the loans will range between $10,000 and $20,000 per job created, up to the $50,000 limit. The loans are only available for commercial buildings in the 55806 and 55807 zip codes. The buildings must be owner occupied (not leased) by a small business committed to creating two or more full-time equivalent jobs within two years. Further details are available in the brochure below.

News and Current Affairs Lincoln Park Neighborhood / The Friendly West End, West Duluth

Book store will replace Wild West Liquor; other slow-moving changes in the works on Central Avenue in West Duluth

Sep 08, 2016 7 Comments

The former Wild West Liquor building on Central Avenue is being remodeled and new owners plan to open a used book store in the space next summer.

The former Wild West Liquor building, at left, is being remodeled and new owners plan to open a used book store there next summer.

A Carleton College professor and his wife have purchased a former West Duluth liquor store and plan to open a used book shop in a business district targeted by city officials for redevelopment.

Bob and Angel Dobrow of Northfield bought the Wild West Liquor building, 318 N. Central Ave., in July for $214,000 and plan to open Zenith Bookstore in the space next summer. The couple, along with friends and family, have gutted the 1890s building and exposed its original floors, tin ceilings and brick walls. They will eventually fill the store with thousands of books from their collection, recent purchases and new finds.

News and Current Affairs Books, West Duluth

When West Duluth Was Young

Jul 27, 2016 1 Comment

In the summer of 1994, a group of West Duluth kids met with a group of senior citizens from the neighborhood and wrote down their stories for a booklet. Here is the entirety of When West Duluth Was Young: An Intergenerational Writing Workshop, with thanks to Aunt Becky for passing it along.

History West Duluth

Plant of Zenith Furnace Company at West Duluth

Jul 23, 2016 No Comments

Zenith Furnace Company was organized in 1902 and located on St. Louis Bay at 59th Avenue West. The company manufactured pig iron and byproducts of coal gas, ammonia and coal tar. In 1931 the company was acquired by Interlake Iron Corporation and was a source of steel during World War II for use in government defense equipment. It closed in 1962.

History, Photos Postcards, West Duluth

Western Duluth by Air

Jul 18, 2016 No Comments

Duluth aerial footage by Charlie Dinges, featuring Wade Stadium, the ore docks, grungy industrial stuff and pretty trees.

Videos Drone Videos, Lincoln Park Neighborhood / The Friendly West End, Wade Stadium, West Duluth

Denfeld Senior Graduation Video 2016

Jun 12, 2016 No Comments

A shot-by-shot re-make of Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feelin’!” produced by Denfeld High School’s graduating class of 2016.

Videos Denfeld High School, West Duluth

Video Archive: Charlie’s Club Fire of 2006

May 22, 2016 1 Comment

On the evening of May 22 and into the morning of May 23, 2006 — Charlie’s Club in West Duluth was destroyed by fire.

History West Duluth

Woodblind & Big Wave Dave and the Ripples – “Kom-on-Inn”

Apr 27, 2016 No Comments

Woodblind joins forces with Big Wave Dave and the Ripples on the new song “Kom-on-Inn.” With the help of Myke Dixon and crew, the hospitality of the Kom-on-Inn staff and the participation from friends and fans this video was created. It was shot on Jan. 17, and after a few months of editing it was released on April 5 with performances by both bands and video premiere at the Kom-on-Inn.

Music, Videos Album Releases, Big Wave Dave and the Ripples, West Duluth, Woodblind

Commerce on the River: Loll Designs

Apr 26, 2016 1 Comment

In a manufacturing facility a few hundred feet from Stryker Bay in West Duluth, Greg Benson leads a company dedicated to making outdoor furniture “for the modern lollygagger.” Before launching Loll Designs, however, Benson built skateboard ramps. He started out in his neighbor’s garage and eventually worked with municipalities to design and implement custom skate parks. The excess materials turned out to make attractive and durable Adirondack-style chairs, and a new business was born.

“A lot of people assume that I must have been a skater, but really I enjoy hiking, kayaking, camping and being outdoors much more,” Benson says. He and his brother Dave, both University of Minnesota Duluth graduates, along with Tony Ciardelli , founded both Loll and Epicurean, a company that makes cutting boards and other kitchen products. They sold TrueRide in 2008 to a California company and took what they had learned and ran with it.

News and Current Affairs Commerce on the River, Loll Designs, St. Louis River, West Duluth

Denfeld Lip Dub 2016: “We Run this Town”

Apr 25, 2016 No Comments

UPDATE: As is plainly visible, a copyright claim on the music used in this video resulted in it being pulled from YouTube after one day. Follow this link to see an updated version without the Jay Z track.

Denfeld High School 2016 lip dub project. Full disclosure, I work at Denfeld as some kind of educator. The third annual all-school lip dub dropped today, something students and educators worked on closely for the past couple of months. It’s a mash up of Beyoncé and Jay Z’s “Crazy in Love” and “We Run this Town.”

If this is the future of Duluth, I think we can all be very hopeful and proud. Particularly noteworthy for me is the way that we see strong, confident and successful women portrayed prominently in the video.

Music, Videos Denfeld High School, West Duluth

Mysterious Masonic building seeks new owner

Apr 11, 2016 4 Comments

Real Estate agent Jim Aird in the balcony of the old Euclid Masonic Lodge in West Duluth. Aird’s grandfather was a member of the fraternity and had a room named after him in the building.

An historic and mysterious West Duluth building has stood abandoned for a decade after an ancient fraternal organization sold the property to a developer who died before initiating a renovation.

Euclid Lodge 198 erected the boxy, brick and largely windowless building at 611 N. Central Avenue in 1909, a period of great growth for the centuries-old, international fraternity of Masons. During its almost 100 years in operation, some of the most prominent West Duluth businessmen and civic leaders of the time participated in secretive ceremonies, jovial fellowship and benevolent works inside its walls.

West Duluth Posts

Coolerator: Acclaimed in Hollywood, built in Duluth

Reader publisher buys former West Theater

Duluth 1200 Fund Advance West Loan Program

Book store will replace Wild West Liquor; other slow-moving changes in the works on Central Avenue in West Duluth

When West Duluth Was Young

Plant of Zenith Furnace Company at West Duluth

Western Duluth by Air

Denfeld Senior Graduation Video 2016

Video Archive: Charlie’s Club Fire of 2006

Woodblind & Big Wave Dave and the Ripples – “Kom-on-Inn”

Commerce on the River: Loll Designs

Denfeld Lip Dub 2016: “We Run this Town”

Mysterious Masonic building seeks new owner

The Liquid Snowstorm of 2016

The Story of Iron and Steel

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