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Add a picture please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.80.23.16 (talk) 17:59, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Top level tag and status[edit]

The common meaning (of "duluth pack") and also the title/subject with a lower case "P" is a type of pack used for canoeing. Much of the wording capitalizes both words and uses it as a synonym for a particular company. I plan to fix that. North8000 (talk) 23:35, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I partially fixed it. The "duluth pack" portion of it needs to be expanded, and more work is still needed in other areas. North8000 (talk) 23:56, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two remaining links to commercial sites[edit]

Especially since we don't have any pictures, and that this article is about a product, I think that these are useful?

Including to the company where the title somewhat seems to be about their product specifically. ?

What do you think?

North8000 (talk) 10:55, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Started new Duluth Pack (company) article[edit]

Copy of post that I made at the new article:

The Duluth pack article is a mess because half of it is about the Duluth Pack company rather than that style of pack (which is made by many different companies). The Duluth Pack company is famous notable, and easily wp:notable. I am solving the problem by "splitting" the article. Actually starting the Duluth Pack company article and moving much of the company material from the Duluth pack article to here.

North8000 (talk) 01:12, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed PROD[edit]

Duluth pack is a term in use since the turn of the last century. At the time I was a Girl Scout Camp counselor it was sold by the Duluth Tent & Awning Company. The brand name came later. See Duluth Pack (company)#Trademark claim for more information. StarryGrandma (talk) 00:42, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but Duluth Tent & Awning = Duluth Pack company, with the Duluth Pack being a product of that company. Maybe in the year 1900 these were all called "Duluth packs" due to limited availability(?), but I've never heard anyone refer to other brands of portage packs as "Duluth packs." Do you know of other historic manufacturers of Duluth packs that can be added to the article? Thanks! ↳Hyperik (talk) 01:22, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Duluth packs we used (this was 50+ years ago) were green canvas box packs with very uncomfortable cotton webbing shoulder straps. We padded the straps with our sweatshirts. There was no brand name on them and they didn't look like the current ones sold by Duluth Packs; perhaps they were just a generic brand. They were a cheap way of carrying a lot of stuff for Girl Scouts on both foot travel to campsites as well as canoe trips. This was before freeze-dried stuff for campers, and wholesale quantities of canned goods came packed in cardboard boxes two layers deep. If you split the boxes horizontally then one layer of cans, box and all, slid easily into a Duluth pack. StarryGrandma (talk) 01:37, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Without getting into too much personal detail, hundreds of not thousands of times I've heard of packs of this style not made by Duluth Tent & Awning/Duluth Pack company referred to as duluth packs. The same for the common large envelope shaped one as a #3 and a large one with set-outs (box shaped) as a #4. There should have been discussion before removing that work and prod'ing this. North8000 (talk) 01:47, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperik, you are making big changes all over the place towards your personal vision of this without discussing. Pleas stop and discuss. The most / main discussion appears to be here at Duluth pack Thanks. North8000 (talk) 01:57, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]