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13.03.2010
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These simple cottages, housing Alaska Engineering Commission
engineers and railroad workers, started dotting the landscape of
Anchorage in the late 1910s. Many were ultimately turned into
offices, others were moved, and some were even dragged to the dump,
where the fire department would set them ablaze just for practice.
The remaining homes—such as the Leopold Davis house, home to
Anchorage’s first mayor—offer a window into life in Anchorage
during the 1920s and ’30s.
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13.03.2010
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This clearing at the edge of town once functioned as a firebreak
between Anchorage and its neighboring forest. At other times, it
acted as an airstrip, a golf course and even a makeshift housing
development, when people lived here during the 1940s boom in
apartments created out of old barracks. Today the Park Strip—just
one block wide but 13 blocks long—is home to ball fields, a gym,
ice rink and a giant steam locomotive.
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13.03.2010
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Wendler Building (HD) In such a male-centric city, it has often
been tough for Anchorage’s ladies to sit down and enjoy a cocktail
without—well, being crowded out by the men. This spot, also known
as “Club 25,” was a popular café and bar in the 1940s and ’50s—but
with a catch. It was for women only. The building was so beloved
that it was moved from its original site—now home of the Hotel
Captain Cook—to its current location just up the street.
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13.03.2010
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Oscar Gill House (HD) Oscar Gill was a local statesman who played a
key role in Alaska gaining statehood, but his house achieved fame
all on its own. Gill was Anchorage’s mayor during Prohibition, when
bootlegging was big business. Gill denied any involvement himself,
but his house clearly acted as someone’s portal for smuggling
booze. Window sills could be jerry rigged to send bottles up
through the walls and between the studs. Today you can still see
pieces of broken bottles inside the walls.
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13.03.2010
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Oscar Anderson House (HD) This 1915 A-frame building was the first
actual home built in Anchorage, initially standing out amongst the
sea of tents surrounding it.
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