Bob Dylan Born in Duluth, Minnesota in St. Mary’s Hospital, on May 24, 1941. Dylan’s father Abram Zimmerman and his mother Beatrice “Beatty” Stone were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. The Zimmerman family lived in Duluth until Dylan was six years old
“Minnesota has its own Mason Dixon line,” Dylan said in an interview on his official website.
“I come from the north and that’s different from southern Minnesota; if you’re there you could be in Iowa or Georgia. Up north the weather is more extreme — frostbite in the winter, mosquito-ridden in the summer, no air conditioning when I grew up, steam heat in the winter and you had to wear a lot of clothes when you went outdoors. Your blood gets thick. It’s the land of 10,000 lakes — lot of hunting and fishing.”
May 12, 1946 – Mother’s Day Celebration – Duluth, MN
He stamped his foot and commanded attention. Bobby said:
‘If everybody in this room will keep quiet, I will sing for my grandmother.”
Bob’s first paid performance. An uncle said, proferring a handful of bills, “You’ve got to sing.” He refused. The pleading increased, although the fee remained the same. “So he sang,” his mother said, but not until he had announced: ‘If it’s quiet, I will sing.’” … Everyone was quiet as Bob’s two-song repertoire was repeated. Again the audience cheered, and Bobby walked over to his uncle and took the twenty-five dollars. He approached his mother with his first gate receipts. “Mummy,” he told her, “I’m going to give the money back.” He returned to his uncle and handed him the money. He nearly upstaged the bridal couple.
The Zimmerman family moved to Hibbing in 1948, and for most of Bob’s life in Hibbing, he resided at 2425 7th Avenue East, a street renamed named “Dylan Drive”. Most of Dylan’s childhood was spent in the iron-mining town of Hibbing
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
https://www.irontrail.org/attractions/historic/dylan-home/
