@anchistorian
Historian with daily Alaska history posts & weekly column (https://www.adn.com/author/david-reamer/). Black Lives in Alaska (2022) co-author & 2023 co-Alaska Historian of the Year. Support at Buy Me a Coffee (https://buymeacoffee.com/davidreamer).
Free history talk this Saturday (March 7), Noon, Title Wave bookstore, Anchorage! I'll be talking the petty jealousies of cities and how Fur Rondy got started. Plus other odd history. As always, show up or I'll run amok. Song is "Fur Rendezvous" (1982) by Brian K. Jones.
"Logic!" cried the dying frog. "There is no logic in this." "I know," said the scorpion, "it is my character." Of course, sometimes the scorpion scowls fiercely and denies being a scorpion. The scorpion has no compunctions about lying, not a part of its character.
Teenage me crying as the first TV show I watched weekly from start-to-finish comes to an end: "I should upgrade my bedroom."
1999 Sadler's Home Furnishings commercial featuring Victoria the Sadler's Lady. This copy aired in Anchorage during the series finale for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory
1994 Boniface Mall of Anchorage commercial. Located at the corner of Boniface Pkwy and Northern Lights Blvd, the mall building now houses Anchorage School District offices. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory
As is appropriate. Also, yay for Black Books gif.
They made me deliriously happy. Like it was made for my pastry preferences.
May 30, 1918, Anchorage residents march in parade to cemetery for Decoration Day, an older name for Memorial Day. 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act moved Memorial Day observation from May 30 to last Monday of May effective 1971. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #Alaska
1981 rejected Gunnar Birkerts design for Loussac Library in Anchorage. Typical for Birkerts, natural lighting is a primary feature, here aided by a mirrored lens at the building's summit. From March 1987 Architectural Record. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #alaska
It was so much Alaska that I am retreating back to Anchorage
March 1, 1970 West magazine cover, a Los Angeles Times insert. #alaskahistory #alaska
Juneau highlights: pastries at the Rookery, the entire vibe of the Drip Drop Wondershop, Alaska Robotics, random stickers everywhere, constant snow for mood, and Pat Race as a tour guide.
She should be more well known.
March 3, 1944 Inupiaq 15 y/o Alberta Schenck's letter in Nome Nugget complaining of discrimination at Nome's Dream Theater. "I am one of God's children regardless of race, color, or creed." Arrested 8 days later for sitting in theater's whites-only section. #alaskahistory #alaska
Will look!
1967 Golden Nugget cocktail lounge/restaurant postcard. Open in Anchorage at 225 E. 5th from 1965 to 1973. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory
The Golden Comet was the signature cocktail at Club 25, an Anchorage bar open 1948-1982 & pictured in 1956. Recipe: one part each lime juice, orange curacao, & vodka. Blend with ice until frothy. Rub rim of martini glass with an orange slice, which becomes a garnish. #alaska
For a while there, almost any warm drinkable was called a hot soda, from actual sodas served hot to tea to soup.
"Hot Alaska Toddy" recipe from the January 1909 issue of The Spatula magazine, one of my more gruesome finds. Like the Alaska Cocktail and Baked Alaska, the Hot Alaska Toddy did not seem to originate in Alaska, or the Klondike. #alaskahistory #alaska
From the Nutty Professor (1963): an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater. Mind you, this is the Alaskan version, not the regular Polar Bear Heater. It reminds me of an awful take on a Long Island Iced Tea. I might make one for a future article on "Alaska" cocktails. #alaskahistory #alaska
Free history talk this Saturday (March 7)! I'll be talking the petty jealousies of cities and how Fur Rondy got started. Plus whatever odd history I want to talk about. Noon at Title Wave in Anchorage. As always, if no one shows up, I'll be forced to run amok.
Love Dorothy Parker
February or March 1984 performance of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem by an Unalaska jail prisoner. From Where We Are, a KUCB weekly news program. #alaskahistory #alaska
1978 "Fireweed Philosophy" poem by Alaskan author/homesteader Mary Carey: "It's the poor old neglected fireweed that's shunned because of its name." Fireweed should be the Alaska state flower. #alaskahistory #Alaska
THank you!
Okay, I can totally see this. Sex work history interspersed with poems. Going to pitch this as a Bear Tooth talk.
Bought two books. Of all things, you had a specific and very out of print book I had been shopping around online for!
Anything happening in Juneau tonight or tomorrow night?
Should I do a talk thats just sex work poems?
"Fairbanks '77" by Hard Luck Harry (aka Harry Hunison), which rather accurately if colorfully reflects the inescapable vice of pipeline-era Fairbanks. From the 1988 (second edition) of Alaska Barroom Ballads. #alaskahistory #alaska
