July 27, 2010

I don't recall the Flirtmobile

Some blessed soul has preserved '70s Anchorage for us.

(Update: for good or for ill, there's more. Almost enough for your misty-eyed South central Alaska nostalgia needs.)

Further update: I don't recall the "Flirtmobile" because it didn't exist. But neither do I really remember the Artmobile.

I do however recall the construction of the Federal Building in the block on the left.

10 Comments:

Blogger VMM said...

Wow. Looking at those makes me feel weird.

July 27, 2010 at 5:24 PM  
Blogger The Sum of All Monkeys said...

Wow. Looking at these makes me wish they'd done a '70s cop/detective show based in Anchorage.

July 27, 2010 at 8:28 PM  
Blogger The Front said...

Seriously, wow....George Attla, the Palmer Fair...dang. Remember that time when we were children?

July 27, 2010 at 9:44 PM  
Blogger Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat said...

I dimly remember some of the locations, some well, and some--more than I care to admit--not at all.

Perhaps old earthquake damage (that wasn't so old in some of these shots) explains it, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the place was falling apart almost as fast as we were building it up.

I don't recall feeling that way when I was young, but then vacant lots were much more unremarkable.

July 28, 2010 at 12:37 AM  
Blogger Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat said...

Say, does anyone remember the location of The Alaska Sabre Jet?

July 28, 2010 at 12:56 AM  
Blogger JAB said...

The effect on me was the opposite of nostalgia.

July 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM  
Blogger VMM said...

Me, too. The feeling it evoked was, "I can't wait to grow up and get the fuck out of this place."

July 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM  
Blogger The Front said...

Yup. Not magical. Not at all magical.

July 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM  
Blogger The Front said...

I love this shot, though.

July 28, 2010 at 9:48 PM  
Blogger VMM said...

The Huslia Hustler!

July 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM  

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