exclusively. Moreover, Kytö in 1925 bought with John Salo the Grace Hotel, and in 1936 the Saratoga Hotel and Bar. Later still, in 1945, Kytö bought and remodelled the Fifth Avenue Hotel; after his accidental death in 1947, Mary Sophia (Kytö) Ellsworth continued to operate this hotel. Väinö J. Salo owned and operated the Salina Hotel and Bar, and in West Duluth, Teve (Toivo) Ray Pekkala had a big restaurant and bar, known as Teve's West Duluth Bar and Grill. The Lake Park Hotel, on South First Avenue East, was long owned by John and Fanny Saari, and across the street was a former `house' which had become Heikkilä's boardinghouse and restaurant. John Vainio has owned the AstoriaLiberty-Maryland and the Sixth Avenue hotels, and after 1946, also the Saratoga Hotel and Bar. Vainio has also been active in other fields, having been a lumberman, then a barbershop owner, and together with Isak Johnson and Verner Lignell the proprietor of the Duluth Steam Bath Company, in which he initially had the biggest share invested and which he later owned outright.

Matti Pykäri had started the Kaleva soft drink company in 1910 in partnership with Alex Keto and later was a partner in the Pykäri-Suhonen General Mail Order House, after which he devoted himself to "managing forests." Pykäri's Kaleva enterprise changed its name in 1918 to City Bottling Company, and after that time it was owned by John Mäki and Emil Mäkelä, and later still by Theodor Mäki. The grocery business also attracted numerous Finns, at least temporarily, and of them the oldest and most permanent was Matt Newman's (before World War I), while those of Henry Antila and Charles Kauppi in West Duluth were also well known. From 1919 to 1929, Joki and Sundell had a store named the Table Supply Company, and at the "Point" there were shops owned by Hill, Johnson, Junttila, Kylmälä, as well as Ananias Väätänen's forge which used to manufacture well-known sauna heating units.

Antti Hiltunen and A. H. Markkanen both became well-known as importers. Hiltunen's specialty was the import of skis and knives from Finland, while Markkanen was associated with a Norwegian, one Haugsrut, and was probably the only Finn who had a long, successful career as a wholesaler. The Economic Supplies Company founded in 1920 by Frank Holappa, on the other hand, was one of northern Minnesota's largest auto supply houses even into the late 1950s.

Retailers have also been present and successful. Alex Kyyhkynen, for example, started a candy store on West Sixth Avenue in 1913, later changing it into a men's clothing store. In the 1950s

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