#hibbing

[1976desire]

bob dylan (right) with unknown children, hibbing, minnesota, ~1945

[cctvarchive]

HIBBING, UNITED STATES.

[nedison]

Hibbing, the iron-mine town, where [you] can have the spiritual exaltation of looking into a deep hole in the ground, and saying, “My, my, isn’t that a hell of a deep hole in the ground."

Sinclair Lewis

[jaygabler]

Best Bets: Ondara plays Hibbing High, alma mater of his inspiration Bob Dylan

Find something to do in the Northland this weekend.

How cool is this? Ondara, who came to Minnesota from Kenya because Bob Dylan was from here, is now playing the same Hibbing High stage where a young Bobby Zimmerman infamously made a racket.

[midwestphotography]

Happy 80th Birthday Bob Dylan!

I've been lucky to live within driving distance of a lot of musical history for most of my life. A couple hours north and you'll run into Clear Lake, IA, where Buddy Holly played his last concert and his plane crashed a few hours later. A few hours east, and you'll end up in Madison, where Otis Redding's plane crashed on the way to place a concert there. Closer to the Twin Cities, you have Paisley Park, which is where Prince lived and recorded. And if you go a few hours north, you'll run into a lot of Bob Dylan places of note. He was born in Duluth, and moved to Hibbing when he was 6, where he stayed until adulthood when he moved onto New York and the rest is history. But, for Dylan fans like me, being so close to pieces of Dylan history like his childhood homes, place he went, etc., are pilgrimages to take every so often. I try to get to Hibbing at least once a year, and Duluth 3-4 times a year. Below is Bob Dylan's childhood home in Hibbing, or more specifically, the garage of the home. For the longest time, it was painted with the cover of Blood On The Tracks, one of Dylan's best known albums. It has since been painted over a plain white, but it was recently bought by Dylan super fan Bill Pagel, so who knows, something might show up again at some point.

[richwall101]

Bob Dylan and School Friends in Hibbing Minnesota in 1957 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) Centre, to his left Larry Kegan and to his right Loui Kemp

[mudwerks]

August 1941. "Hull-Rust-Mahoning, world's largest open pit iron mine, near Hibbing, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

[americanbuildings]

TELEPHOTO VIEW, LOOKING NORTHEAST (DETAIL OF #3) - Hull-Rust Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Third Avenue East, Hibbing, St. Louis County, MN