This Month in Juneau History
Enjoy this collection of local history snippets curated by Mary Pat Wyatt. Choose a month below to read about Juneau and Douglas history.
A bill to ban suggestive and immoral dancing such as the ‘Grizzly Bear’, ‘Turkey Trot’, ‘Snake Wrestle’ and the ...
The Alaska Steamship Company has been notified by the Post Office Department that it has been awarded a contract ...
On Sunday morning, March 31, all clocks are to be set ahead one hour to conform to a law recently passed by ...
Manager Ed Webster of the Juneau and Douglas Telephone Company is pushing the work of rewiring the city with the ...
The flag was raised for the first time over the new Capitol building at Juneau. Governor George Parks raised the ...
The new Alaska liquor law went into effect today. Henceforth, all saloons and barrooms will pay a license fee of ...
The Federal and Territorial Building, now the State Capitol at Juneau, was formally dedicated. ...
Our local mining industry has received a blow in the apparent failure of the Johnson Mill & Mining Company, ...
The Alaska Statehood Act (Pub.L. 85–508, 72 Stat. 339, enacted July 7, 1958) was signed by President Dwight D. ...
The old-time dances are disappearing and in their places are such vulgar contortions as the ‘Toddle’, ‘Walking the ...
A strong basketball team from the Metlakatla Athletic Club made a clean sweep of a Gastineau Channel series, ...
The entire camp is shocked by the shooting death of a deputy U. S. Marshal and the wounding of two other members ...
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