Stolen bikes hamper Harrison Community Club family event
July 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Eight new bicycles that were to be given away as door prizes at the Harrison Community Club’s Family Fun Fest have gone missing. Continue Reading
Duluth are seems to be full of thieves where do they all come from?, do parents raise their kids to steal..
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What does your anti-obama racist comment have to do with this issue of stolen bicycles?
This is the type of comment that is in violation of item number 2 of the posting rules.
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The purpose of his comment is to make white people in Duluth feel resentful towards black people from Chicago.
See Ulysses’ post for the same sentiment, with slightly more subtlety.
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Nah, see Vune… As long as you’re subtle enough, then it’s not racist. All the racist thoughts can stir in your head all you want, but it’s cool as long as you phrase it right.
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Time for that particular rec center to upgrade to some concertina wire & claymores.
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This incident should serve as a case study on neighborhood deterioration. What was adequate security for perhaps 70 years, while the neighborhood was solidly middle-class, is now no longer adequate as the face and income level of the neighborhood changes.
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I grew up right next to Harrison and spent countless fun hours there both in summer and winter. What a crying shame. That theft is completely heartless. How could that thief or those thieves look into the mirror each day after doing that.
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Since the NLX Bullet Express train to the Twin Cities isn’t ready yet, perhaps they’re simply looking for an alternative, green transportation solution to get from Duluth to Minneapolis.
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Bum burns building, someones steals from building, have we ever heard of an alarm system…..?
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The article said 16 to 26 inch FRAME size: they should have written “wheel size”. I’m going to donate two 26 inch wheels size bikes to help replace the stolen ones!!
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Wouldn’t it be fun to catch these douchbags right in the act and……………….
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I just dropped off an old bike collecting dust in my shed at Twin Ports Cyclery, which is located right next door. Paid for a tune-up, and told them when it was done, to wheel it on over there.
I grew up right up the street on Wellington. Was a great place to grow up for a kid. Newmann’s and IGA on 3rd to spend the money I earned mowing lawns, and shoveling snow, and the entire hillside as my backyard, 5 blocks away. It’s one of the biggest reasons I moved back here to raise my family. It’s a damn shame what’s become of that neighborhood, and I’ll do anything I can to help make it a great place to raise a family again.
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Tad, I grew up around Restormel St. and Atlantic Ave. and you’re right about it being a decent area.
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That’s on the other side of the creek there. We called it Willow Creek when we were kids, cause a huge, old, knotted willow on what should be Wicklow st. that grew next to it. We used to cut switches from, and play our own version of bloody knuckles.
First time I broke my arm was from barreling down Atlantic. That avenue seemed like a mountain when I was kid, and just as steep.
My favorite sitting rock now sits in Bill Kron’s basement. Or, what’s left of it.
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Apparently, waxing nostalgic has given me the grammar of a child as well. . .
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Tad, I’m older than dirt but do you remember Bryant school and Herb’s grocery store? There was Drums store also.
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@Quagmire; I grew up in the ’80′s so Bryant was long closed by then. That was the one on 1st St. that burned and they torn down in the ’90′s wasn’t it?
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Yes I think it did burn but I don’t remember when it was torn down.
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Bryant school located 32nd ave west and Grand. Demolished for arrowhead truckstop project. Across the street from the old A & W, now called A & Dubbs.
http://www.jiffyjeff.net/bryant%20school%20resize.jpg
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Tad, Bryant school was on Chestnut St. below Grand. The school you might be thinking about was the one by Piedmont possibly?
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There used to be a building that sat on 1st st and I want to say 26th W. Block or two east from the Fire Station there. I want to say it had sandstone archways, and that brown brick that was the common building material of the time.
I had always thought that was Bryant. It was one of those building that I never really noticed, until it was gone.
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Tad: I could be wrong but I believe there was a Monroe school in the vicinity you describe. The last few years of its life it was used as a warehouse. So in West End we had the Bryant, the Adams (on Superior Street a block west of Piedmont ), Perhaps the Monroe and Lincoln plus a couple of Catholic schools attached to long gone churches and the unused one attached to the church across the avenue from the bakery. How come the screwel district could have a school every few blocks then and now we need huge campuses with hundreds ore thousands of kids in them? Indeed West End has certainly changed.
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I don’t sit on the School Board, nor was I living here when the consolidation, and closing of schools was being discussed, so I really can’t speak to exactly why the Red Plan happened. . .
However, it would seem to me that the decline of Duluth’s population (peaking around 110,00 in the 1960′s I believe offhand) and the advancements made in transportation in the last century (100 years ago around the time most of these schools were built, there were no buses to offer a busing program, because the bus hadn’t been invented yet, so kids had to walk to school. Through twelve feet of snow, uphill both ways), coupled with the fact that maintenance, upkeep, and utility cost of having several older buildings, is generally greater than the cost of having a single newer building designed with better material that reduces maintenance, upkeep, and utility cost, and wasn’t available a century ago.
I guess I just don’t see how you can compare the school system in Duluth a century, or even fifty years ago, without addressing the changes to Duluth’s population, and advancements in available technology.
As I said before, I wasn’t here for the whole debate. By the time I moved back here, it was done, and honestly that’s the way I see it. Schools have already been built, schools have already been demolished, and jumping up and down screaming about every chance we get isn’t going to change that fact.
I, for one, would really like to start talking about current, relevant issues, instead of rehashing old arguments in a puerile display of inanity.
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Too bad about the Dudley Downer Tad, I had fun talking to you. Thanks
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@Quagmire; it’s all good. Ulysses is a well known troll denizen of these forums. Can’t very well lurk the forums without encountering them. They’re like bad drivers on the interstate. You grit your teeth, take a couple deep breaths, and wait for your chance to pass.
It was a nice conversation. I’m just happy to know that there’s a couple other folks out there hoping the West End can be restored to its former glory.
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Tad: Sorry for the reality check. By your own admission YOU lurk these forums and occasionally encounter those of us who give reality checks regarding the corruption within and the mismanagement of and the subsequent slow but sure and steady decline of this city. By your own admission you are a newbie to Duluth and as such you are understandably naive of the “back story” behind the comments of us trolls. You are forgiven.
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Everything you just said only serves to reinforce my original conclusion. You Sir, are a toll.
Perhaps you should go back and read the part about me growing up in the West End, and maybe reassess your assertion that I am a “newbie to Duluth”
Not even sure what the rationale behind that statement is. Are you suggesting that unless you have spent every day of your life living in Duluth, then your opinion is invalid? I wasn’t aware that we had developed such an isolationist, xenophobic view here in Hometown.
My apologies Sir. By all means, continue with your “Reality Check”.
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Dudley Downer strikes again.
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Tad: I have no bone to pick with you, but your youthful naivete’ is showing. Welcome home. In your absence some huge issues have materialized one of which is the Red Ink Plan. If you missed the fun you should restrain yourself from making blatently stupi*d remarks about that issue and the damage it has caused along with other issues you missed. But back on topic…Duluth is changing and some of those changes are not for the better. Those of us who have loved and served this city are dishartened by what we see being done by self-serving corrupt politicians and others. Perhaps if you are on the ball you could run for office and help steer this city back toward the glory the city deserves.
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Here’s a summary of your dose of reality:
“Comparing the past to the present is like comparing apples to oranges.
(300 word paragraph comparing the past to the present)
Don’t compare apples to oranges, TAD.”
You appear not to understand the things you say, and when you disagree with someone’s interpretation of your words, you throw a tantrum & start slinging insults.
People have learned that it is pointless to talk TO you. So we talk ABOUT you, and use you as an example of how not to be.
Which, incidentally, is the same way that you treat you-know-who, wink wink.
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Perhaps we should revisit just exactly who was comparing “apples to oranges”?
“How come the screwel district could have a school every few blocks then and now we need huge campuses with hundreds ore thousands of kids in them? Indeed West End has certainly changed.”
-Ulysses, On July 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM.
To which I replied, at On July 16, 2012 at 12:58 PM
With my 300 word “essay” detailing why you can’t compare the past to the present.
To which Ulysses replied, On July 16, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Telling me you can’t compare the past to the present. . .
So. . . I’m really confused where you get the idea that I was comparing “apples to oranges” when my entire response was based around the premise of. . . you can’t compare “apples to oranges”?
Go back and reread what I wrote, and just in case your reading comprehension fails again, pay special attention to this part of my original response;
“I guess I just don’t see how you can compare the school system in Duluth a century, or even fifty years ago, without addressing the changes to Duluth’s population, and advancements in available technology.”
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ulysses said:
“Tad: I have no bone to pick with you, but your youthful naivete’ is showing.”
LOL>..cuz only old f@rts know everything worth knowing, right?
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Please stay civil, folks, and stay on topic–which involves stolen bikes, I believe. No one wants the thread shut down; people still have things to say about it.
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Yes ma’am. You’re right, we’re wrong.
Sorry Ulysses. Sorry Tad.
I’ll get back in my box now.
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Right Kari. My original comment pointed out how 70 year old security is obviously inadequate to assure the safety of possessions today in light of the changes that are happening. I referred to the changing face (read that as identity those of you who didn’t pay attention in school) of West End and all of a sudden all the racists think I am talking about the new “faces” that they see in the neighborhood when in fact I was talking about the overall face, identity, charactor of the community. I guess when you are racist and looking for problems under every rock, you can twist pretty much any comment to serve your agenda. Self absorbed people focus on themselves whereas others like me look at the big picture and see the deterioration of our city happening as a result of a number of factors, not just the “faces” of individuals. Perhaps this is due to the dumbing down of our society, which in itself changes the face (identity) of our nation. Frankly I don’t give a rats arse what an individual looks like…it is what is in their head and heart that matters, and obviously there are some bad individuals in West End if they choose to steal bikes from neighborhood kids. I wonder if those people can sleep well at night knowing what they have done.
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