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Monday, June 13, 2005

Skagway Shopping

It was a bad day weather wise so Frances and I went shopping for the morning and the guys stayed back at the trailer. We also took in a show that has been running for 80 years, called the “Days of 98 Show” It depicts with a comedic twist the life and death of a man by the name of “Soapy Smith “ one of the biggest scam artist to fight for the control of Skagway. The show is a musical with Can Can Girls and is done quite well. When we came out of the theatre the sun had come out so we decided to take a drive around the Skagway valley. We drove to Dyea a small village that was in competition with Skagway but was wiped out in an avalanche in 1899, the town at it’s heyday had a population of about 10,000, today nothing much remains except a small piece of a store front, the lumber strewn remains of a warehouse and a graveyard.


















Posted by: Colin & Margaret & Splash Werner / Monday, June 13, 2005  


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