Digital Bob Archive

30 November 1979 issue

APRIL 15, 1926-Since the church building burned in December, services of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church have been held in the Methodist Church. Commencing next Sunday, the services will be held in the Palace Theater, with church services at 11 a.m. and Sunday school at noon.

JANUARY 4, 1927-Henry Baman, manager of the Frye-Bruhn Company, meat dealers, today announced the purchase from Mrs. Cora Malony of the building on Front Street adjoining the Juneau-Young Hardware Store. The building formerly housed the Alaska Grill. The meat market, now on Seward Street, will be moved to the building in the near future.

APRIL 13, 1928-Kann?s Variety Store will open tomorrow on Seward Street with a complete variety line including dry goods and novelties. L. Kann is the proprietor.

DECEMBER 7, 1929-The mink ranchers of the Mendenhall Valley last night perfected a permanent organization at the meeting at the home of Martin Lavenik on Glacier Highway. The name chosen was Alaska-Yukon Mink Association. J. E. Ames was elected president, A. Cameron was chosen vice president, and Bruce Brown was named secretary-treasurer. Charles Rudy was elected a director. There are said to be at least 20 mink ranches in Southeast Alaska, 10 of them in Mendenhall Valley.

JULY 8, 1930-The first DeSoto car to be seen in Juneau has been sold by the McCaul Company to Zalmain Gross. It is an 8-cylinder coupe with a dark blue body, black top and gold trim.

MARCH 24, 1933-S. M. Savin, Ketchikan shoe merchant, has leased a store on Seward Street adjoining B. M. Behrends Company and owned by George Anderson. He will operate a shoe store there, a branch of his Ketchikan business.

MARCH 5, 1934-Grace V. Davis of Juneau, a graduate of the Cornish School of Music, Drama and Dance in Seattle, has opened a studio in the Mandarin Ball Room in the Goldstein Building for all types of dancing.

APRIL 21, 1934-Effective on May 16, the Alaska Steamship Company will move its Juneau operations to the Pacific Coast dock. The move will be the final chapter in the merger of the two transportation lines. The deal that brought them together required Alaska Steam to take over the dock leases of the old Pacific Steamship Company, which discontinued its Alaska business last year. The Juneau lease includes office space, a waiting room, and a large apartment. (Note: The dock, adjoining the present Marine Park, is now owned by the City and Borough of Juneau.)

APRIL 8, 1935-Excavation was started this morning by the J. B. Warrack Company for the new $40,000 Decker Building, south of the Nugget Shop on lower Front Street. The three story building is being erected for Mrs. E. O. Decker and will have a 50 foot frontage and be 64 feet deep. Mrs. Decker is the widow of E. O. Decker who came to Juneau in 1882 and soon afterward opened a store on or near the site of the present construction. Later he moved to a site between Seward and Main Streets. The original Decker Building, which had some additions over the years, was torn down in 1908. The new building was designed by N. Lester Troast and Associates of Juneau.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1935-B. F. ?Bert? McDowell has purchased the Corner Grocery on Willoughby Avenue. For the past five years he has been assistant manager of the Piggly Wiggly Store here.

MAY 26, 1937-Ernie Pyle, rambling reporter for the Scripps-Howard chain of 24 newspapers, arrived in Juneau this morning from Petersburg. He will remain here for several days, then move on to Skagway on a tour of Alaska that will take most of the summer. The first thing he did here was to set up shop on the top floor of the Juneau Hotel and start rolling copy about Southeastern Alaska out of his portable typewriter.

NOVEMBER 25, 1938-In the first inter-high school basketball game of the season last night, Juneau chalked up a 35-7 win over Douglas. Starters for Douglas were G. Wahto, Bob Fleek, A. Savikko, G. Stragier and H. Savikko, with Krsul as substitute. For Juneau the starters were McDaniels, T. Powers, J. Hickey, L. Ritter and V. Hussey, with Murphy, Rice, Reischl, Notar and Miller as substitutes.

NOVEMBER 18, 1939-Miss Louise Patterson of the Pacific Alaska Airways office staff in Juneau has issued a call for Alaska women interested in flying. Miss Patterson, who soloed four years ago and is past president of the Seattle branch of the Association of Women Pilots of the Northwest, today announced plans to organize the first Alaska branch of the growing organization.

APRIL 4, 1940-Two new 15-passenger DC-2 Douglas planes have been ordered by Pacific Alaska Airways to replace Lockheed Electras on the Juneau-Fairbanks route. The announcement was made today by Frank MacKinzie, Pan American airport engineer, who is here to develop a seaplane base at Auke Bay for the clippers on the Seattle-Juneau run. These are Sikosky 42-B ships which are much larger than the planes which made test flight on the route several years ago. Service between Seattle and Juneau is expected to start about May 15. (Note: Pacific Alaska Airways was a subsidiary of Pan American.)

APRIL 15, 1941-A third pilot has been hired by the local combined airways company, Alaska Air Transport and Marine Airway. He is Dean Goodwin, former instructor at the Washington Aircraft Company in Seattle. He arrived here this morning on the steamer North Coast and was accompanied by Mrs. Goodwin. The consolidated air transport company will be known as Alaska Coastal Airlines.