Digital Bob Archive

9 November 1979 issue

JUNE 19, 1915-Ground was broken this morning for the construction of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall on Third Street above Main. The three story building will measure 50 by 100 feet and will cost $10,000. It will include club rooms, a swimming pool and a gymnasium. (Note: The site is now occupied by a part of the Alaska Office Building.)

AUGUST 28, 1915-The Orpheum Theater, Douglas?s new photoplay house, located in the Henson Building near the approach to the city dock, will open tomorrow night. It will have a seating capacity of 220. The owner is J. T. Spickett, owner of the Orpheum in Juneau, and will be managed by ?Punch? Baldwin.

JANUARY 4, 1926-Goldstein?s Emporium, in the Goldstein Building at Second and Seward, is being extensively remodeled. The grocery department will be discontinued and the shoe, dry good and notions departments will be expanded.

APRIL 28, 1927-Frank S. Gordon, Fairbanks and Anchorage merchant, will open a women?s wear shop in Juneau about May 15. Mrs. Winifred Jones, who formerly operated the Fashion Shop here, will be the manager.

JULY 12, 1930-With approximately 800 officers and men aboard, the six destroyers of the Sixth Destroyer Squadron arrived in port this morning. They are the flagship Twiggs, the Tatnall, Badger, Babbitt, Jacob Jones and Hamilton. The vessels are on a training cruise for reserve officers and are in the command of Commander Leigh Noyes. A series of baseball games is being arranged with local teams.

JANUARY 10, 1933-The Bergmann Dining Room in the Bergmann Hotel will open tomorrow night under the management of Mrs. J. Grunning. A feature of the opening will be a fried chicken dinner, complete from crab cocktail to strawberry jello with whipped cream, for fifty cents. The dining room offers board by the week or month as well as meals for transients.

MAY 15, 1934-Purchase of The Snap Shop on Seward Street from Jack Silva was announced today by Trevor Davis who has been in the photographic business from more than 15 years and has a large collection of Southeastern Alaska scenes. Mrs. Art Judson will assist him in the shop.

APRIL 1, 1935-Oscar G. Olson, elected last fall, took over the office of Territorial Treasurer from Walstein G. Smith who had served as the territory?s first treasurer for the past 20 years. He was appointed in 1913 shortly after the First Territorial Legislature created the office. At that time he was the only territorial official. Mr. Smith will become vice president of the First National Bank of Juneau.

MAY 8, 1937-Rising water in the Taku River this morning permitted the Taku Trading Company?s riverboat Jeanne to make her first trip of the season down the river from Tulsequah and into Juneau. Captain Al Kaska is in command of the vessel.

DECEMBER 16, 1937-The Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Association, organized eight months ago, is moving into its own home in the Valentine Building at 119 Seward Street. R. H. Stevens, for many years the assistant cashier at the First National Bank, will manage the office.

NOVEMBER 19, 1938-Completely redecorated and remodeled, Sam Gazaloff?s City Cafe will reopen its doors tonight as a different and new establishment under a new name. It will be known henceforth as Dreamland. The old dance floor, one of the finest on the Channel, remains but otherwise the place has been completely renewed.

NOVEMBER 10, 1939-The trap of the gallows at the federal jail was sprung at 8:46 a.m. today and Nelson Charles, 37, was executed for the brutal murder of his mother-in-law at Ketchikan on September 3, 1938. This was the first hanging in Juneau since civil government was established in Alaska in 1884, although there had been an earlier one as a result of action by a miner?s court. The gallows on the hill here has twice before been made ready. The first time was in 1913 when a Japanese cannery worker was pardoned at the last moment. The second time, a few years later, was for Edward Krause who was charged with several murders. He escaped from jail and was shot before he could be hanged.

APRIL 15, 1940-The halibut vessel Hyperion has contributed the first fish this season to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce pool of fish for the needy. The Hyperion unloaded at the Juneau Cold Storage this morning. The fish is being distributed by the Salvation Army.

JULY 5, 1940-In the first hose race run in Juneau in many years, the Douglas Fire Department won over Juneau by 6 seconds. The race was run on Front Street between Main and Franklin and the Douglas time was 30 seconds. The Juneau Fire Department team was unfortunate in that the lead man, Billy Rudolph, tripped and fell. Then his teammate, Roy Carrigan, stumbled over Rudolph, and was run over by the hose cart. It required at least 6 seconds to get untangled and by then the race was lost.

JULY 8, 1940-It was announced today that J. A. Thibodeau has purchased the Totem Grocery from G. G. Brown. Thibodeau was formerly associated with the Home Grocery. (Note: The Totem Grocery became Thibodeau?s Grocery, on the site of present Salley?s Kitchen.)

JANUARY 6, 1941-In wet snow on the slalom course on Douglas Island yesterday Curtis Shattuck won the men?s race and Mary VanderLeest the women?s race for the Behrends and Henning trophies. Dean Williams, last year?s winner, was second in the men?s division with Fred Ball in third place. Elizabeth Terhune and Mary Jean McNaughton placed second and third in the women?s race.