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Gastineau Bygones - 01/19/1979
19 January 1979 issue
OCTOBER 21, 1913-About 10:30 o?clock Saturday night, Alaska Day, a rock weighing several tons broke away from the cliff on the town side of the knob known as Decker Hill and plunged down toward Basin Road. Several poles of the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company were torn down and a number of homes were threatened. Fortunately, the rock struck a great boulder at the edge of the road opposite the Nelson home and stopped there.
DECEMBER 17, 1913-Last night in the Masonic Lodge room of the Odd Fellows Hall in Juneau, Chapter No. 7, Order of Eastern Star, was launched in a blaze of glory under the guidance of John Orchard, Past Grand Patron of Texas, and Mrs. Smith, Worthy Matron of the Douglas chapter, who acted as Grand Marshal for the occasion. A banquet followed the ceremonies.
MARCH 23, 1914-The Arctic Barbership & Baths, owned by George Hain and C. M. Spores, opened for business this morning in handsome new quarters in the new Valentine Building. The shop faces on Seward Street, with baths in the rear and on the mezzanine. There are six chairs, four tubs and a shower.
APRIL 27, 1914-Miss Sylvia Koskey has won the Queen of May contest over Miss Klonda Olds by 722 votes. The contest was held by the Draper Club to raise money for the proposed public library.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1914-The new post office building erected by B. M. Behrends on Third Street, behind his bank building, will be turned over to Postmaster Earle Hunter on October 1. The new post office will have 900 modern combination lock boxes and four windows for service to the public. The building provides plenty of working space for handling mail. W. C. Winstead in the supervising architect for the building.
JUNE 15, 1929-Management of the Palace Theater has been taken over by Mrs. J. H. Cann, wife of one of the owners of the Gastineau Hotel, and Miss Mae Pauly who has been the leader of the Palace Orchestra for several years. Together they have purchased all of the interest held by Mr. and Mrs. John T. Spickett. Mr. Spickett took over management of the Palace in 1916 and also formerly operated the Orpheum and Dream Theaters here. He has recently been in poor health and has undergone surgery.
MARCH 16, 1931-Charles Devlin has opened a women?s shoe store on Main Street at the head of Front Street on the quarters formerly occupied by the U. S. Signal Corps until it moved to the Capitol Building. Mr. Devlin was formerly in Ketchikan for four years.
APRIL 2, 1931-Juneau?s aviation service for the current year began yesterday with the arrival of the Pioneer Airways seaplane Sea Pigeon, piloted by J. M. Dodson. The craft flew from Ketchikan to Prince Rupert yesterday morning and picked up Terris Moore, a student at Harvard University. He was brought to Juneau and will go on to Lituya Bay to join a party which will attempt to climb Mount Fairweather.
APRIL 2, 1932-Nicholas and Michael Bavard of the California Grocery on Front Street at Ferry Way have just completed a concrete basement under their building. It formerly stood on piling with the tide washing under it. The basement is 60 by 70 feet and 13 feet deep, with 12 inch thick walls to assure dryness. G. E. Krause, Juneau contractor, planned and supervised the work.
MAY 31, 1932-A total of 39,532 pounds of fish was landed at the Juneau Cold Storage over the weekend. Troll salmon brought four cents a pound for reds, one cent for whites, while gillnet fish brought three and one cents. Landings also included 6,500 pounds of halibut which brought six and three-eights and three cents.
JULY 6, 1934-The seaplane Chichagof of Alaska Southern Airways, Pilot R. E. Ellis and Mechanic Lloyd Jarman, has been busy with flights to both Sitka and Ketchikan. The company?s seaplane Baranof is in the hanger having its motor changed. Gene Meyring pilots the Baranof.
JULY 14, 1934-The long awaited Pierce Arrow motor coaches of the Gray Line Tours, Inc., arrived this morning on the freighter Depere. Jack Simpson, local manager for the company, says they will be used for Mendenhall Glacier-Auke Lake tours. Each bus seats 16 passengers.
AUGUST 12, 1938-One more day of sunshine and the shooting of Norman Dawn?s Taku River film, ?Golden River,? will be complete. ?Stars? in the film include Mary Joyce of the Taku River Lodge and little Ann Louise Henning. Dawn had previously filmed a number of pictures for others, including ?Tundra? and ?Swift Lightening,? but he is doing ?Golden River? on his own account.
APRIL 30, 1940-In accordance with the vote taken on April 2, at midnight tonight Juneau residents will move their clocks one hour ahead and hereafter the city will be on Pacific Standard Time. The vote was 753 to 564 in favor of the change, but the miners at the Alaska Juneau Mine have announced that they will continue to work by 135th Meridian Time as in the past. The miners have opposed the change from the start.
In changing to Pacific Standard Time, Juneau follows the lead of Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg. It is understood that Sitka will make the change on May 13, but Skagway, because of its railroad connection with Whitehorse, will stay on the old time.
It was on May 29, 1926, that Ketchikan changed to Pacific Standard Time by action of the City Council and at the urging of the Ketchikan Commercial Club. It was felt that the Ketchikan Fish Exchange was at a disadvantage in having to open an hour earlier that the Seattle Fish Exchange. Wrangell and Petersburg followed Ketchikan about four years ago. With the recent increase in air travel between different Southeastern Alaska ports, it is felt that it will be advantageous to have virtually all of Southeastern Alaska on the same time.