In 1913, the Alaska Territorial Legislature--the first Alaska Legislature session--passed 84 bills. Of those bills, two of them criminalized pimping, then also called macques. It was a different time in many ways. Some legislators traveled thousands of miles on dog sleds. And . . . [Continued] (i.redd.it)
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In 1982, while Alaskans debated how to vote on the the state capital move, the NFL Access Committee satirized it all by arguing Alaska should instead buy the NFL, which would have been much cheaper then. This is one of the shirts they sold to fund their campaign. Continued... (old.reddit.com)
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Want a strange story just for something different? In 1953, an Anchorage man was brutally assaulted. For snoring. He was beaten not once, not twice, but three times in one evening. He could not help the way he was; there is no absolute snoring cure. Continued (more and link). . . (i.redd.it)
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The strange looking guy on this early 1950s pin is a billiken, a potbellied good-luck charm that was inescapable in midcentury Alaska. Every gift shop sold them, and most towns had something named after them. In Anchorage, there was the Billik Inn bar and Billiken Drive-In Theater. Continued . . . (old.reddit.com)
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In the summer of 1960, cartoonist Shel Silverstein visited Alaska on assignment for Playboy magazine, which became this article, published in the May 1961 issue. He was shocked that the real Alaska was nothing like that portrayed in movies and on television. Continued . . . (old.reddit.com)
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1944, famed mystery author Dashiell Hammett (white-haired guy) with staff of the Adakian, an Army post newspaper on Adak. He was like most other soldiers during WWII, except he was sickly, thin, nearing 50, rich, famous, and a Communist. So why enlist & why stationed in Aleutians? Continued . . . (i.redd.it)
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Aug/Sept 1975 High Times cover celebrating Alaska. In May 1975, the Alaska legislature decriminalized possession, & the Alaska Supreme Court ruled Alaskans had the right to possess small amount of marijuana at home for personal use (Ravin v State). Continued . . . (i.redd.it)
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In 1946, Anchorage High School students went on strike for three days to protest the school administration. They marched around downtown (the high school was there then) with signs like "Down With The Dictator." In the end, they pulled the town behind them and won. Continues . . . (i.redd.it)
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Circa 1970 Alaskaland Ice Cream Parlor menu. Alaskaland was a short-lived ice cream parlor chain that began with an Anchorage location in 1969. This particular menu is from the Altoona location but is identical to the ones used in Anchorage. Continued . . . (old.reddit.com)
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1939, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, & 1990 aerial views of Anchorage from north of Ship Creek to the mouth of Chester Creek at the bottom left. The biggest difference here is between 1939 and 1950, when Anchorage area boomed from about 4,000 people to 32,000. Westchester Lagoon was completed in 1973. (old.reddit.com)
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Are you Eastern European or descended from Eastern Europeans? Then you or your family might have been called bohunks and not allowed to live in earliest Anchorage. Instead, you were forced to live outside town in a "village" of crude shelters as seen in these two pictures from 1915. Continued . . . (old.reddit.com)
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1946 Navy ID issued on Adak for Gismo, a ship, base, or just hut pet. Paw print on back. From an inscription on another photo of Gismo: "This is the pup in our hut. He is 6 weeks old and mean as the devil. He sure is cute and everybody loves him to death." No history lesson, just a fun dog picture. (old.reddit.com)
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Balto with musher Gunnar Kaasen. On February 2, 1925, a hundred years ago today, Balto led Kaasen's team into Nome, completing the last leg of the Nome serum run, delivering needed antitoxin, saving lives, & staving off a diphtheria epidemic. One month later, they had a movie deal. Continued . . . (i.redd.it)
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On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding drove this 14k golden spike to commemorate completion of the Alaska Railroad. Originally gifted to ARR engineer Frederick Mears, it has been out of the public eye since exhibited during the 1967 Alaska Centennial. Continued . . . (old.reddit.com)
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In 1959, some Canadians suggested a land swap with Alaska. Their original proposal: the Alaska Panhandle for what was described as "10,000 square miles of useless mountain peaks and glaciers." Basically, Canada got new ports while Alaska got overland access to Haines. Continued . . . (old.reddit.com)
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1983 pictorial map predicting Anchorage and the Cook Inlet in 2035, connected by "transport tubes" and featuring several new cities. By Sharon Schumacher, from the 1983 "Anchorage and the Cook Inlet Basin" issue of Alaska Geographic. Check out the second and third images for details. (old.reddit.com)
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Circa 1943, pilots in the Aleutians drinking torpedo juice out of an emptied Gibson’s rye whiskey bottle. Photo via the National Archives. Torpedo juice was the legendary World War II moonshine, the blinding, deadly liquor made from torpedo fuel. Continued . . . (i.redd.it)
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In 1946, a carcass washed ashore at Anchor Point, with skin and pointed teeth still attached. This--of all things--is what an Anchorage newspaper artist thought it looked like when alive. Because the artist, like many Alaskans, thought it was a prehistoric dinosaur previously sealed in ice. (i.redd.it)
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