Positively 3rd St Bakery

Duluth, United States

4.7

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13 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Delivery
No
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes

Description

Specialties

Positively 3rd Street Bakery is a worker owned co-​op that is determined to offer healthy, and affordable goods to its customers. We have a strong focus on local and organic ingredients, and make a wide variety of wholesome breads, cookies, granola, pizza crusts, muffins and bars.

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History

Established in 1982.

The unassuming two story store/​flat that houses Positively 3rd St Bakery was constructed in 1913. The earliest tenant that we know of was a family grocery store, Bertulla’s, that operated at least through the 1950s. We always appreciate hearing stories from people that grew up in the neighborhood.

The building housed a succession of bakeries from the 1970s through 1982, when several workers banded together to buy out their management and start a worker co-​op. Cooperative enterprise is in NE Minnesota is nothing new, but the new bakery brought a tradition with it’s roots in Scandanavia into the present.

The name «Positively 3rd St. Bakery» was an inventive conjunction of Dylan lore (predating «Bob Dylan Way» by a quarter-​century!) and geography. The financing was largely DIY-​that founding generation worked at minimal wages to cover start-​up costs. The model was whole-​grain baking at affordable prices-​a business niche that the bakery is happy to inhabit to today.