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Guns, horses and explosions: Meet the Michael Bay of 1890s gold rush playwrights (opens the original)
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Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. A cacophony of bullets from dastardly villains showered beleaguered heroes as audiences gasped in fear for their favorites. Knives flashed in fatal conversations, and buildings exploded. Bridges collapsed, horses and men fell to their seeming doom. Cowboys and railroads, damsels and gol
The 1990s Anchorage experiment with traffic cameras: A tale that will surely never repeat (opens the original)
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Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. If youâve never browsed the Municipality of Anchorage Code of Regulations, well, youâre missing out. Not only is it an opportunity to learn local law, it also offers hints of long, colorful stories. For example, there is a statute (10.50.025) that allows liquor sales on election day
Attempting to deliver gold rush news, a dozen carrier pigeons were once dispatched from the SS Portland (opens the original)
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Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. Many Alaskans today feel some degree of isolation from the Outside world, from the smaller states, or from the general pulse of society beating from a quite distant heart. Once upon a time it was much worse. More than a century ago, there was no regular and speedy airline service elsewh
Exotic dancers, fortune tellers and mutt shows: The 1920s Anchorage precursor to the Alaska State Fair (opens the original)
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Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. More than a decade before the first Alaska State Fair, back when it was the Matanuska Valley Fair, there was a similarly ambitious festival established in Anchorage, partially organized by the same man who later founded the fair in Palmer. A fading economy prompted its demise; otherwise
Did anthropomorphic cigarette mascot Joe Camel visit Anchorage in 1992? (opens the original)
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Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. Of the many ills and issues in the world today, surely one is people trying to lure innocent historians with their vintage mysteries. On Facebook marketplace and eBay, in thrift and antique shops, there are people who willfully dangle artifacts of the past in front of those without the
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