AHSmemories

REMEMBER WHEN........

This page is prompted by an E-mail I received from *Barb (Casler) Eanes, (November 2000):"The several "remember when" lists we have gotten brought to mind endless thoughts of people I knew, things we did, things we had or wore and places we went--in Anchorage--during my favorite years. Most of us know now that we grew up in a time and place that are gone forevever, AND we were lucky to be there. Of course, it wasn't all fun and games, and we all knew our share of sadness, but the good memories far outnumber the unhappy ones.

*BARBIE CASLER-Eanes PASSED AWAY IN 2005!

REMEMBER?

Phil's Cozy Corner at 5th and G Street?

Thompson's Restaurant at 5th & I?

When the Post Office really was one, and everybody had a box there, with a key?

REMEMBER......

Friday night dances in the cafeteria, with real bands, and decorating with miles of crepe paper streamers?

Welch's, the Smart Shop, Betty Faris, and Theresa's where we shopped for new school clothes in the fall and formals for the big dances?

Antler Dances in the old and new Elks, and Rainbow dances upstairs in the Masonic Temple on 4th Avenue?

Filling in dance programs the week before the Senior Ball and Junior Prom (I still have mine-do you?)?

The Oyster Loaf, where the waitresses all wore fancy hankies folded into flowers?

Mrs. Harrison's (Lorene's) Hat Box, and wearing hats to church and weddings?

The Bootery, where we got our loafers and saddle oxfords every fall?

Walking to school every day unless you lived REALLY far away?

Remember.....

The old NC Company?

The Empress Theater, sitting in the first six rows when you were a kid?

The grand opening of the 4th Avenue with it's beautiful interior?

Carl Libby's old car, antique even in 1950?

Mrs. Kapingen's music shop, where you could listen to a record before buying it?

The eruption of Mt. Spurr in 1953, when it was pitch dark at noon and ash fell all over the area?

When the old high school burned down (1955??) ?

When all our schools were in one block between 5th and 6th avenues and F. and G. ?

Mr. Granville, Mr. and Mrs. Lahnum, Mr. and Mrs. Guffey?

Thompson's especially after basketball games and movies. (When it burned-what year?)?

The Grill, after dances since it stayed open all night?

Going to the Aleutian Gardens or the Idle Hour before or after formal dances?

Lu's Cafe beside the 4th Avenue Theate? (I learned to smoke there, proving that my mom was right...a true den of iniquity!)

Playing Kick the Can after dinner in the summer?

Skating on Lake Spenard and Blueberry Lake?

Where Anchorage School Stood, now known as the Performing Arts Center

REMEMBER.........

Riding the Army trucks to Arctic Valley to ski, and the good hamburgers and hot dogs they had there?

Leonard Hopkins store for skiis and ski clothers?

The old public library at 5th and E?

Boys wearing leather jackets, long white scarves, engineer boots, and white cords?

Swimming in Lake Spenard, trying to get a tan?

Night picnics in the summer time?

The carnival that used to come every August, and the fireworks they had?

Babysitting for 50 cents and hour?

Walking to almost everywhere, riding bikes to anywhere?

The great Eagles Basketball Teams, and the cheerleaders in black and orange?

The old Fur Rendezvous with the blanket toss on City Hall lawn and the dog races (before the Iditarod) that started on 4th Avenue?

Performing Art's Center (from 6th Ave. to the NW)

Remember.......

The talking mynah bird in the old roadhouse at Portage (think it "went" in the earthquake)?

When there were NO houses on the mountains above town, and Huffman and DeArmound were little gravel roads?

The Anchorage skyline before 1200 L St and the McKinley Apartments were built?

When "I" street was the beginning of Spenard Road?

The pie at the Airport Cafe?

Ice cream cones from the Alaska Dairy (Matanuska?) store on East 4th--summer and winter both?

Hidden Lake? Spudnuts? The Rice Bowl? (The first Chinese Restaurant?)

Skipping school Wednesday afternoons for night skiing at Arctic Valley?

Senior Sneaks on the train to Willow? Camp in the summer at King's Lake?

Grilled cheese sandwiches in the AHS cafeteria, and milk in those little tiny bottles?

Candy apples from Lounsbury's on 4th Avenue?

When our TV shows came two weeks later than they were shown "Outside".....after we finally got TV?

Spearmeint, Juicy Fruit, Black Jack, Teaberry, and Beemans, and no chewing them in school?

Thundersotrms and how rare they were in Anchorage, and walking in warm summer rain?

Performing Art's Center (from 5th Avenue looking West) (note crosswalk to Convention Center)

Remember......

Slumber Parties, pin curls, nail polish, cutting each other's hair?

The Eagle's Cry and working to get it together to be printed every week at the Times?

Class and Thespian plays and stage fright?

GAA fashion shows and the stores who loaned us clothes to model, AND Jimmy Orcutt playing the piano as we walked?

Baseball games, hockey and ice skating at old Mulcahey Park?

Fads that came to Alaska a year after they were fads "Outside"?

Black and white photos and 35mm slides?

"Boat" eggs from "outside"--The fresh ones always tasted funny?

Knowing where new girls came from by the way they rolled or cuffed their (always) white socks?

Having friends from everywhere since so many new people came to Anchorage while we were growing up. Missing friends who left when their dads were rotated away from Ft. Rich or Elmendorf?

AND-I was Barbie before Mattel was even thought of.......

I could go on and on.....THESE were the "good old days" in Anchorage.

NOW IT IS YOUR TURN, FOLKS!

How about some more "Old Anchorage Memories???????????"

'THANKS", Barb for her contribution! Barb admits that the "guys" were short-changed in her "memories". Have you memories that you would like to share with AHS classmates/alumni? Please check out/sign the guest book OR E-Mail me and I will enter your memories into this page.

This page was last updated on: December 2, 2006