"Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941. He and his family lived on the upper floor of a duplex at 519 North 3rd Avenue East. "It's on the banks of Lake Superior, built on granite rock. Lot of fog horns, sailors, loggers, storms, blizzards," the musician reflected on his hometown in 2017. "My mom says there were food shortages, food rationing, hardly any gas, electricity cutting off-everything metal in your house you gave to the war effort. It was a dark place, even in the light of day-curfews, gloomy, lonely, all that sort of stuff-we lived there till I was about five, till the end of the war.""
"In 1948, the Zimmermans moved to a 759-square-foot house at 2425 7th Avenue East (now known as Bob Dylan Drive) in Hibbing, Minnesota. This was home to the singer-songwriter until 1959, when he left for college. Today, one Bob Dylan fan and historian owns both of the musician's childhood homes. He paid $82,000 for the Duluth dwelling in 2001 and acquired the Hibbing home in 2019 for $320,000."
"In September 1959, Dylan enrolled at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His first college dwelling was at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house at 915 University Avenue Southeast. Partway through his freshman year, however, the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" singer moved out in favor of an apartment above Gray's Drugstore in the University-adjacent Dinkytown neighborhood, where he began performing at bars and coffee shops. Dylan dropped out of college that May."
"In 1961, Dylan headed to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, shacking"
Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941, living on the upper floor of a duplex at 519 North 3rd Avenue East. His family later moved in 1948 to a 759-square-foot house at 2425 7th Avenue East in Hibbing, where he lived until leaving for college in 1959. In September 1959, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, first staying at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house at 915 University Avenue Southeast. During his freshman year, he moved to an apartment above Gray’s Drugstore in Dinkytown and began performing locally. He dropped out in May 1960 and later moved to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 1961.
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