The Alaska nobody shows you (Page 5): Thank you very much, glad you liked them. As for the shopping, no parking problems, no waiting for the cashier who also serves a fairly good...

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

vicksart wrote:

Great series. I enjoyed seeing your shots and learning about this place. I bet the people are as colorful as the buildings. The one stop shopping appeals to me.;-)

Thank you very much, glad you liked them. As for the shopping, no parking problems, no waiting for the cashier who also serves a fairly good Espresso as I remember it's a different part of the world.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Mr. B wrote:

I agree. The road through Thompson Pass is beautiful with the waterfalls and Thompson Glacier. And Valdez is a very different place with the narrow bay and sitting in a punchbowl of mountains. The museum in town has some of the best Alaskan artifacts, minerals, artwork and game mounts I have ever seen.

We are on the same page, love the place, by not backtracking the road I always took the ferry from Whittier to Valdez which is very scenic, weather permitting.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

GWR100 wrote:

What a wonderful and well narrated set. What a project to return one day and see how things have moved on, and yes more of these archive images would be very interesting. Great stuff & thanks for sharing.

Geoff

Thank you so much Geoff, I will post more tonight. Since you are from the UK. it was suggested that the red phone booth is from there, can you confirm that? I traveled in the UK years ago and it seems there were these red boots around but I am not sure.

texaskat

My Dad worked on Guam 2 1/2 years back in the 50's. He took up photography for entertainment. I had lots of pictures similar to these. The one that still stands out in my mind was the Sears Catalog store. Mother and I could have gone over the last year and half but Mother didn't want to fly or go by ship. Daddy checked into the school and I would have been a grade behind by the time we got home. I was younger than most of the kids in my grade anyway so that would not have mattered. Think I missed a great opportunity. I wasn't even told about it til Daddy got back home when I was eleven.

CAM1017 Loc: Chiloquin, Oregon

Fun Photos. I know for sure that we were at the one in Chicken and Eagle. Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

texaskat wrote:

My Dad worked on Guam 2 1/2 years back in the 50's... (show quote)

I am very sorry you mist out.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

CAM1017 wrote:

Fun Photos. I know for sure that we were at the one in Chicken and Eagle. Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:

Chicken and Eagle are on the cul de sac Taylor highway. If you took an Holland American lines tour that goes from Skagway to Dawson City and from there via boat to Eagle you were there. Otherwise you only get there with your own car, no other tour goes there as it really is not a scenic spot..

GWR100 Loc: England

Your right, it is a British phone box, and there are quite a few red ones left in out lying areas, like the attached picture (Which is in the middle of Dartmoor in Devon) and the ones that are left in towns and city's now days are mostly are painted yellow. We also have red posts boxes except in Villages, Towns & Cities which are the homes of Olympic Gold Medal Winners, the boxes there are painted Gold.

Geoff

blacks2 wrote:

Thank you so much Geoff, I will post more tonight. Since you are from the UK. it was suggested that the red phone booth is from there, can you confirm that? I traveled in the UK years ago and it seems there were these red boots around but I am not sure.

CAM1017 Loc: Chiloquin, Oregon

blacks2 wrote:

Chicken and Eagle are on the cul de sac Taylor highway. If you took an Holland American lines tour that goes from Skagway to Dawson City and from there via boat to Eagle you were there. Otherwise you only get there with your own car, no other tour goes there as it really is not a scenic spot..

Thats exactly what we did. We are having fun watching the History Channel show on Alaska which has one of the continuing sequences coming from Eagle. When we there in the month of July it sure did not look like it does in winter with the frozen river. :thumbup:

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

GWR100 wrote:

Your right, it is a British phone box, and there are quite a few red ones left in out lying areas, like the attached picture (Which is in the middle of Dartmoor in Devon) and the ones that are left in towns and city's now days are mostly are painted yellow. We also have red posts boxes except in Villages, Towns & Cities which are the homes of Olympic Gold Medal Winners, the boxes there are painted Gold.

Geoff

Thank you so much Geoff now one starts to wonder how in the hell did one like that end up thousands of miles away from the UK in the Alaska wilderness? To bad I am too old to travel I sure would like to know how that happened. Great shot of your country side. Thank again
Cheers.

GWR100 Loc: England

THey are sold here in the reclamation yards and they fetch really good money. I wonder if this one found its way up from Canada??

Geoff

blacks2 wrote:

Thank you so much Geoff now one starts to wonder how in the hell did one like that end up thousands of miles away from the UK in the Alaska wilderness? To bad I am too old to travel I sure would like to know how that happened. Great shot of your country side. Thank again
Cheers.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

CAM1017 wrote:

Thats exactly what we did. We are having fun watching the History Channel show on Alaska which has one of the continuing sequences coming from Eagle. When we there in the month of July it sure did not look like it does in winter with the frozen river. :thumbup:

Someone else mentioned the History Channel, I am hearing impaired and haven't watched any TV in years but for something like that I don't need to hear.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Fifty, yes 50, years ago I had a girlfriend who's sister, at age 16, married her teacher here in the UK. To avoid the scandal of the time they moved to Alaska and taught the children of construction workers on the Alaskan Highway - wherever they wrote from their address was simply Mile xxx (whatever) Alaskan Highway. I never met them but have always admired their courage. The photos they sent home always looked so bleak! Yours are a great collection. Please post more.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold:
The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold:
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

magnetoman wrote:

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Thank you so much, interesting, I might have seen your girlfriends sister. I drove the highway the first time in 1953 and a few times since. Your quotation of Sam McGee is correct. Robert E. service was of course an Englishman who was smart enough to work at the Canadian Bank of Commerce and not seek the gold. He did very well with his poems as he retired to the French Rivera and is buried there. If you check the internet you will find my favorite "The Spell of the Yukon" As former Yukoner it drives tears to my eyes.
Cheers.

imageal Loc: Ocala, FL

Great stuff as always Mike. Love the "off the beaten path" scenario.