September 27, 2010

Retribution Gospel Choir tops off a 10 day tour at Pizza Luce Duluth with headliners Equal Xchange.  Saturday October 2nd.  10pm.  21+.  $5.

This fall, the Encounter Youth Center in downtown Duluth is celebrating over 100,000 total visits from young people since opening in November of 2002.  To celebrate this momentous occasion, a full mini-golf course will be set-up throughout the 38,000-square-foot, multi-level facility.  Games will be offered free for all ages.  The hours for the course will be:

Thursday, Oct. 7, from 12pm – 9pm (course will open after ribbon cutting at noon)

Friday, Oct. 8, from 5pm – 9pm

Saturday, Oct. 9, from 10am – 5pm

“Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,
come smell your way among the trees,
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:
Welcome to the night.” …

Rentola-1924-Duluth

Here are two historic photos of the Rentola, a Finnish boarding house at 4 N. 59th Ave. W., in West Duluth. The top photo is from Karl Hagglund, whose grandmother was a maid at the Rentola. The next photo is from 1961, courtesy of the Northeast Minnesota Historical Center. So the story goes, there was an old steam house nearby where Rentola residents took saunas. …

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