The Old West End: Photographs by Nik Nerburn

Before it was Duluth’s most up-and-coming neighborhood, with fashionable breweries and farm-to-table restaurants, the Lincoln Park Craft District was called the West End. Although it shares the same physical geography with the Lincoln Park Craft District, it can sometimes feel like a world apart. Photographer Nik Nerburn documented several years of the neighborhood’s transformation, making portraits and recording interviews in Carr Hobbies, the Esmond Building (also known as The Seaway Hotel), Randy’s Cafe, and other once-familiar neighborhood joints. The words of neighborhood residents are woven together with dreamlike black-and-white photographs of interiors, individuals, and landscapes, recalling both the real and remembered West End of Duluth.

60 pages, black and white. Design by Trevor Grabill and Flat Mountain Press. Printed at JS Print Group in the West End. $25 shipped, with most shipments made within a day or two of ordering.