Wow! What memories. I forgot the apostol brothers were in the Heartbeats. Amazing your picture of the Mountain View Elementary brings back memories I didn't know I had from first grade there. Think I told you April Allen's mother was my first grade teacher. Just realized the connection of going to first grade in Mountain View and then going to Clark. Did I tell you about the time I parked in front the A&W lion and it urinated on my car hood. My date, Connie Milster, was not impressed.
Again, as usual, great memories. Did you know that the area where Red Apple (previous Safeway/Pay and Save shopping center) now sits, was where this cluster of "temporary" housing sat. The women in the picture were scurrying to the few water supply points in the growing Mt. View. I also have aerial photos and some surviving annotated plots of Mt. View. I have personal photos of my mother standing behind and in front of the houses of my aunts and uncles.....and cousins. The street names of North Mt. View switched a few times. This was the center of my universe in the 1950s. Mt. View was thriving. You also provided me with the name of the first laundry service which later became the Surf: The Mt. View Washeroo. The pig farm and another homestead were located to the south of what is now 6th Ave, originally named Nenana; named after Alaskan River as were all east/west streets in the original Mt. View plats. North was just about Debarr which didn't exist until later. We used to talk about the "pig farm" as we walked to Williwaw Elementary. The first Elementary School in "south Mt. View. Oh....the memories. Thank
Randall - Thank you for the remarkable updates on Mountain View. Our family first lived in Mountain View in 1950 when we first arrived in Anchorage. After a couple of years, we moved to Fairbanks Street near Denali Elementary when I attended first grade. Thank you for sharing your memories.
Wow! What memories. I forgot the apostol brothers were in the Heartbeats. Amazing your picture of the Mountain View Elementary brings back memories I didn't know I had from first grade there. Think I told you April Allen's mother was my first grade teacher. Just realized the connection of going to first grade in Mountain View and then going to Clark. Did I tell you about the time I parked in front the A&W lion and it urinated on my car hood. My date, Connie Milster, was not impressed.
Hello - So happy to learn that the Anchorage, Alaska Memories Club has brought back memories for you.
Again, as usual, great memories. Did you know that the area where Red Apple (previous Safeway/Pay and Save shopping center) now sits, was where this cluster of "temporary" housing sat. The women in the picture were scurrying to the few water supply points in the growing Mt. View. I also have aerial photos and some surviving annotated plots of Mt. View. I have personal photos of my mother standing behind and in front of the houses of my aunts and uncles.....and cousins. The street names of North Mt. View switched a few times. This was the center of my universe in the 1950s. Mt. View was thriving. You also provided me with the name of the first laundry service which later became the Surf: The Mt. View Washeroo. The pig farm and another homestead were located to the south of what is now 6th Ave, originally named Nenana; named after Alaskan River as were all east/west streets in the original Mt. View plats. North was just about Debarr which didn't exist until later. We used to talk about the "pig farm" as we walked to Williwaw Elementary. The first Elementary School in "south Mt. View. Oh....the memories. Thank
Randall - Thank you for the remarkable updates on Mountain View. Our family first lived in Mountain View in 1950 when we first arrived in Anchorage. After a couple of years, we moved to Fairbanks Street near Denali Elementary when I attended first grade. Thank you for sharing your memories.