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

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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.

#anchoredcity

https://anchorageutc.org

https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC

@AnchorageUTC

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.ghosttoursofanchorage.com/

https://www.adn.com/our-alaska/article/host-invites-curious-anchorages-spookiest-places/2011/05/07/

https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/

https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2015/05/the-seedy-sudsy-history-of-the-49th-state.cshtml

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

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/05/17/history-of-spenard-how-a-squatter-bootlegger-and-showman-gave-anchorages-most-renowned-road-its-name/

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF3861BE9%405-16F6DD3AF3861BE9%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%407-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18

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/

Collins, Jan MacKell. Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. United States, TwoDot, 2020.

https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/crocker-ulysses-grant-ug/

https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/extra-tough-women-of-the-north/women-of-the-north-profiles/zula-swanson-savvy-businesswoman/

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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.

#anchoredcity

https://anchorageutc.org

https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageUTC

@AnchorageUTC

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.ghosttoursofanchorage.com/

https://www.adn.com/our-alaska/article/host-invites-curious-anchorages-spookiest-places/2011/05/07/

https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/

https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2015/05/the-seedy-sudsy-history-of-the-49th-state.cshtml

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

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/05/17/history-of-spenard-how-a-squatter-bootlegger-and-showman-gave-anchorages-most-renowned-road-its-name/

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF3861BE9%405-16F6DD3AF3861BE9%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16F87446A62E009E%402430437-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%407-16F6DD3AF4A577BD%40?search_terms=%22South%2BSeas%22&text=%22South%20Seas%22&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&sort=old&page=20&pdate=1942-03-18

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/

Collins, Jan MacKell. Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. United States, TwoDot, 2020.

https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/crocker-ulysses-grant-ug/

https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/extra-tough-women-of-the-north/women-of-the-north-profiles/zula-swanson-savvy-businesswoman/

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