| What would a vacation be without a photo of a gas station? $3.16 for a gallon of unleaded. |
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| How much news could there be in this town? |
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| For the best pizza in town, you have to go to Chico's Mexican Restaurant. At least that's what the sign says. |
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| The pink building in the distance is the Federal Building. It was build in 1937 and it's pink. You would think with all the pork Senator Ted Stevens brings back to Alaska they could keep the building in a decent coat of paint, but the pink paint is peeling. Or maybe paint it a different color. Did I mention it is pink? Oh, the locals will try to tell you it is salmon, but who's fooling whom here. It's pink. |
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| Rainfall, springs and mountain snowpack keep Ketchikan Creek flowing clear and cold all year. |
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| Creek Street is a wooden boardwalk in the old red light district. In 1903, the city council ordered Ketchikan's bordellos across the creek from the town center. When prostitution was outlawed in 1953, Creek Street became a mixed residential and commercial area housing waterfront shops, cafes, apartments and bed-and-breakfasts. |
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| The buildings along Creek Street rest on pilings above Ketchikan Creek. |
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| One bordello still stands on Creek Street. This is Dolly's House. It's a small museum now. Inside are all the tacky trappings of an early 20th century whorehouse. |
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| There were two ugly women in front of Dolly's. If they were a representation of the whores of turn of the century Alaska, I'm surprised there weren't more gay gold miners. |
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| The New York Hotel. It's old and historic. And it really looks like it is in New York, huh? |
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| The studios of KRBD Community Radio. |
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| The Coliseum Theatre opened around 1920. It used to look better than this. |
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| A 9 foot, 1400 pound polar bear. It was or still is a world record. John Wayne once had his picture taken with it. |
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| Probably an old building. |
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| The barbershop was closed, but I got a photo of the inside through the window. I don't know how it turned out so well. Now this is a man's barbershop, not one of those cookie-cutter hair places like Super Value Cutz or something. |
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| A bunch of little boats and one big one. |
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| Another seaplane taking off. |
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| Sunset over the mountains. |
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