AUGUST 23, 1990 – Bob Dylan’s childhood home at 2425 7th Avenue East in Hibbing, Minnesota was sold for $50,000 to an anonymous buyer. The two-story stucco structure, located just a convenient block and a half from the high school and only six blocks from Highway 169, features three bedrooms, two baths, spacious living room, formal dining room. No bohemian lair, the house includes a basement that Dylan’s dad paneled in knotty pine. Dylan, still known as Robert Zimmerman, moved out in 1959, at age 18 to seek his fortune in Minneapolis. Hibbing is also the birthplace of the Greyhound Bus Lines, and athletes Kevin McHale and Roger Maris.
Dylan (b. on May 24, 1941 in Duluth) moved with his family to Hibbing when the singer was six. His father Abram, opened an electrical appliance business downtown, and in 1947 bought the corner house where he died in on June 5, 1968 shortly before his wife sold it to the Marolts. As Dylan fans are aware, The songsmith’s relationship with Hibbing hasn’t always been warm. The Telegraph quotes a 1965 interview in which he sneered, “When I left there, man, I knew one thing: I had to get out of there and not come back.” That comment fits the overall tone of the way Dylan shaped the myth surrounding his boyhood, presenting himself as an outcast and a misunderstood loner in a dying Midwestern town.
The current owners of the former Zimmerman family have painted the garage door with the cover of Dylan’s 1975 “Blood On The Tracks” album.
