A memorial service will be held at 11 a. Thursday with a visitation at 10 a. DNT Minute podcast. The Vault. In Depth. Local Interest. Rick Kobus, pictured above with his girlfriend, Jackie Carlson, spent a lifetime restoring and repairing old cars.
The Duluth man died at age 66 on Friday night while working on a pickup truck he intended to race this summer. Photo courtesy of Rick Kobus' family. Tickets may be purchased using a credit card and then printed out. Previously run as a time trial this year the event received a drag racing permit. It's even more fun when it ain't legal. That brings us back to either Interstate or Brainerd. Fun deal! There were a number of businesses there including Goldfines and Woodruff lumber.
It also was the main access to the docks on the West Side of town. When the Blatnik bridge was built, in the sixties, Garfield became a very busy street. Last time I was there, the Goldfine building was a Goodwill and Woodruff's looked closed. That was all that was left. It's good that something is coming of it. Downtown Duluth, especially the West End needs it. Canal Park and Superior St. The rest of it looks like downtown Detroit did 10 years ago which is sad as the landscape is beautiful.
Can you tell I'm originally from there too? We go to Grandma's Pizza at the end of Canal almost every time. And the antique shops in the area. And the Congdon Mansion, too. Looks like industry by passed it entirely. Downtown proper was primarily financial and retail although with three hospitals. I'm a little younger but I grew up "over the hill" in Arnold Township, now part of Woodland.
Although we were only six blocks from the city limits. When I was a kid, shopping in DT Duluth was amazing. It seemed the stores went on forever. Duluth was heavily industrial and many of those industries closed or consolidated in the sixties and seventies. When US Steel closed around , it really was the end of Duluth as it was. I used to visit my relatives in the eighties and nineties and wonder what the heck happened?
We moved in but the rot had already begun. They have tried to recreate themselves as a tourist destination with some success but not even close to the dollars they used to bring in. At one time, mostly due to iron ore and wheat, Duluth was the second busiest port in the country. Now the areas the tourists visit, like the lakefront and the mansions on London Rd. Even Lakeside, which was the booming neighborhood when I was a kid has fallen on hard times.
All the kids the baby boomers had moved away and left their parents with houses in a town nobody wanted to move to. I'm pretty hard on Duluth but they have had opportunities and shot themselves in the foot more than once.
It's not an easy town to do business in anymore which is one of the reasons it's probably one of the more beautiful poor cities around.
Although if you think Duluth is bad, just cross the bridge into Superior. Now down to about 24, folks. Stop in at Kia of Duluth, a dealership you can trust.
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Racing will run through late afternoon on Saturday. The racing competition will end at 1 p. Gates close at 6 p. There were individual time trials on Garfield Avenue for several years before that.
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