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Originally Posted by MRM
....sounds more like Superior. Except I don't think there's been any business to travel for in Superior for a long time.
I work anywhere that has a hospital - booming or depressed, people still get sick. But, Superior does look like it's hurting.
Any out of towner gets the same treatment. The stares aren't meant to be hostile...
This was a club by the waterfront. Lots of Touri there so they probably wouldn't know local from visitor, but we didn't take it as hostile, more like "check out the new meat" in a "Eyes Wide Shut" kind of way. I think it was a private "club" of some kind that we simply wandered in via back door. Brrrrr!
The Electric Fetus is locally infamous. It's been a thorn in the side of municiaplities since the early 70s. Your basic head shop/record store. The leading cases in Minnesota deciding what businesses can and can't do before the city shuts them down involve them....
The "munincipalities" have bigger fish to fry me thinks. That whole street is peppered with weirdness - "Gentlemen's" club in an old theater, Plasma clinics, Methadone clinics.....etc. Lots of young, skinny people covered in ink and piercings.The local rags have announcements for "coven" gatherings, but as mentioned, that might have been across the bridge at Superior.
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Don't get me wrong - again - I like Duluth. I'll bet it's a pretty safe town with maybe some "B&E" issues to support drug habits. Working in hospitals I see things that average travelers do not. I also just happen to notice stuff like that. Most people probably see the 90% part of Duluth which is college town, tourist destination, and quite nice. They have a huge, excellent Blues festival there in the summer.