S4:E6 – What is Possible?: Tunnels and Two Lakes - Anchorage’s Underground Past

Anchorage has always had an underground of illegal activity. Those activities might have literally taken place underground in tunnels or basement bars, or they could have figuratively been underground thinly veiled behind words like “resort” or “boarding house.” On this episode we explore some of Anchorage’s underground past.

 

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

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https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2022/02/13/curious-alaska-is-there-a-prohibition-era-tunnel-network-in-downtown-anchorage/

https://www.muni.org/departments/ocpd/planning/publications/siteassets/pages/default/patterns%20of%20the%20past.pdf

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https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/spenard-joseph-a-joe/

“Local Jottings about Town,” Anchorage Daily Times, June 26, 1916, 7.  Quoted from Michael Carberry and Donna Lane, Patterns of the Past:  An Inventory of Anchorage’s Historic Resources:  200.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/zula-swanson-1891-1973/

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