This photo from 1955 shows the original Grand Marais Dairy Queen building owned and operated by Ralph Jackson, who can be seen standing proudly in front of the building. The original Dairy Queen was located in the same place it stands today, but it did not have interior seating. No one minded going to the walk up window for their cones or malts, though. Thanks to current Dairy Queen Manager Rob Hackett, who shared this photo and who is proud to carry on the long tradition of Dairy Queen on the North Shore.
10 Years Ago
July 2, 2004
The county board voted Tuesday to grant a conditional use permit that will allow plans for a contaminated soil composting facility in Schroeder to move forward. The decision was made during a special meeting to consider the permit application to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the 15 conditions that must be met for eventual county approval. Those conditions were spelled out by the county planning commission when it recommended approval of the facility, and must still be met before the MPCA’s permit is activated.
Just two weeks after documenting the first lynx den in Minnesota with three kittens, biologists found a second den with five healthy, playful kittens south of Brimson, Minnesota. “Litters of three are more typical,” said a forest wildlife biologist for the Superior National Forest. “Five kittens suggests that at least some of the collared females in our study found plenty of food last winter.”
20 Years Ago
July 4, 1994
Acting on a recommendation from outgoing city clerk Aadne Eliason at its meeting last Wednesday, the Grand Marais City Council voted 3-1 to appoint Bob Spry as an independently contracted interim city clerk until a permanent city administrator is selected later this year. Spry was interim clerk for four months prior to Eliason’s appointment.
A petition for street improvements, signed by seven residents who live on the 400 block of Third Avenue East, was received by the Grand Marais City Council at the June 28 meeting. The petitioners represented all but three of the other homeowners on the block and were requesting that the street be paved, and that curb and gutter be installed. The non-signers were not opposed, according to the citizens present at the meeting, but they had not been available to sign the petition. The estimated cost of the project is in the neighborhood of $50,000.
50 Years Ago
July 2, 1964
Mrs. Noel Knudson took over as Grand Marais public librarian yesterday, following the recent resignation of Mrs. Oliver Anderson. Mrs. Anderson had served as librarian the past four years. While she was librarian, the library had been located in three buildings, finally moving into a new building of modern construction a year and a half ago.
The body of a 40-year-old Indiana man was brought to the surface of Saganaga Lake by Sheriff Emerson Morris and a helper last Friday after the tragedy that took his life two days earlier. Three other men saved themselves by reaching shore when their craft “swamped.”
The volunteers from the Lutsen area who spent much time and energy in cleaning up and beautifying the dump grounds are exceedingly up in arms over the vandalism perpetrated there recently. The offenders pulled up trees that had been planted, destroyed the walks that had been laid, and the signs that had been hung. Some of the items had been tossed into the dump, and one sign is still missing. The sheriff is investigating.
90 Years Ago
July 3, 1924
Miss Esther Anderson is now employed at the Community Restaurant as waitress.
Mr. Lindzy is employed as a carpenter on the school house. The footings were finished this week and the plumbers and electricians have started work.
Mrs. Alta Schoen has started a restaurant near the Tourist Park.
Game and Fish Commissioner J.F. Gould and D.A. Peterson, head game warden from St. Paul,, were in Grand Marais yesterday and today. Mr. Gould has been informed that a considerable amount of outlaw trapping has been going on within this county, and he is investigating conditions and trying to find out just to what extent the beaver have been taken. It is believed that between 800 and 1,500 beaver have been taken illegally, some estimates being as high as 2,500.
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