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You’re thinking of McKay’s Hardware, Earl. They had a three story store on Fireweed Lane just east of Spenard Road.
After McKay’s shut down Title Wave bookstore moved into that building and stayed there for maybe ten years before moving to the space they now occupy over on Northern Lights Boulevard. There’s been an antique market in the McKay’s building since then. whm |
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McKays! What a cool little store that was. Thank you, Wade. The inability to recall their name had been bugging me. My formerly photographic memory is starting to turn sepia-toned and fray around the edges.
Happy Solstice! Remember, we must play now because the days are getting shorter. |
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Yeah, the Bird House was a dive. A dump if you will. But it had character, and some of us like bars with character. OMMV, which suits those of us whose mileage doesn't. Quote:
To her credit, she took total responsibility for her actions. "I can't believe that I did something so stupid" I believe was her quote. But as she said, she was from Australia, and they simply don't have massive predator mammals down under. (great big predator reptiles, yes) So chalk one up to inexperience. Contrast this with the incident mentioned by Earl up above, where some local high school students decide to go for a midnight swim in the bears pool because "everybody knew" that they locked the bear inside at night. (ah yes, the "everybody knows" defense) The groundskeeper, woken by the screams, gets the bear off of the kid and he is taken to the hospital. Nothing that wouldn't heal, as I understand it, although I think that he was a Darwin Awards runner-up that year for the "attempt" to qualify. The kids parents, who lived within a few miles of the zoo, then announce that they are going to sue the zoo for their "failure" to "secure the dangerous animal" After pretty much the entire state of Alaska gave them them a universal raspberry, that was that last that I ever heard of that idea... So chalk one up to stupidity... |
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Try going to the Bear Tooth movie theater over off 27th and Spenard. Same good pizza, same good beer and a cheap second run movie.
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I always wanted to see live shows there, but parking was problematic in that area - prominent signs across all the adjoining strip mall lots saying, "No Bear Tooth Parking". Not much fun walking several blocks in the snow and ice.....
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