He took no pictures at the Duluth Armory on Jan. 31 as a troupe of rock ’n’ roll entertainers put on a Winter Dance Party show for about 2,000 fans — a performance that takes a place of honor in Duluth entertainment lore.
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The Duluth Armory, built on London Road in 1915, decommissioned and given to the city in 1978 and now mothballed in hopes of renovation, is no longer a performance venue. But the building will be the site of a 50th anniversary Winter Dance Party gathering for about a half-hour starting at noon Saturday.
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The movement to build a new armory really started rolling in April, 1913, after a meeting of the Military Lunch Club of Duluth’s Third Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard during which Colonel F. E. Resche explained that the state would provide $15,000 per company toward the construction of a new armory.
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Duluth National Guard Armory (1915). The city of Duluth had this postcard produced to promote its new state-of-the-art Armory in 1916.
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For the Jan. 31, 1959, show at the Armory, Latto put posters up in music stores like Mickey’s Melody Lane at Third Avenue West and First Street. Fans paid $1.25 to $2 that night and General Artists Corp., a rag-tag outfit that booked the tour, was promised $1,000 or 50 percent of the gross receipts.
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There are 119 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including three National Historic Landmarks. A supplementary list includes two additional sites that were formerly on the National Register. Many of Saint Louis County's listings are associated with the city of Duluth 's role as the westernmost port on the Great Lakes, shared with Superior, Wisconsin.
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Before it died, the music lived in Duluth. Fifty-five years ago today (Jan. 31), on a cold Saturday night in 1959, the Winter Dance Party tour featuring Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens played the Duluth Armory.
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(Image: Duluth Public Library). When the Company E of the 3rd regiment of the Minnesota National Guard formed in Duluth in 1908, space began getting tight at the 1896 Armory. It was originally built to hold Companies A & C, but now also held company E and two naval militias as well.
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An editorial in the Duluth News Tribune in 1909 called the 1896 armory, “An overgrown barn in which no one but a human calliope can be heard. it is neither seated, heated, nor finished, and no public meetings are held there except under compulsion.” It would take six more years before Duluth got its new armory.
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The Old Duluth Armory is in Minnesota. The old Duluth Armory is in Minnesota.