To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit. Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary. (Psalm 28:1-2, ESV)
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50th Anniversary of Statehood Celebration
50th Anniversary of Statehood Celebration July 4th, 2009 Flag Raising
at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum at the corner of 4th and Main St.
Singing of the Alaska Flag Song with the Alaska Youth Choir, the United States Air Force Brass Quintet, Dignitaries, and the Public.
Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, [...]
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The Juneau Federal Building and Post Office
The building was officially re-named on May 13, 1999 as the Hurff A. Saunders Federal Building after the man who was the federal government’s civil engineer in charge of construction. Ground breaking ceremonies were held July 8, 1963 at the site of the former Fireman’s Park [...]
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Parking Garage at Telephone Hill Under Construction
From left to right: Telephone Hill, Court Plaza Building on Main St., Parking Garage with the mechanical penthouse of the Dimond Courthouse on 4th St. showing above, Goldstein Building on 2nd Street, Miner’s Mercantile Building - 225 Front St. (Lyle’s Hardware and Furniture from 1956 into [...]
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Mt. Juneau from Evergreen Cemetery
Seatter St. is in the lower third of the picture with the Serbian section of the cemetery visible by the street.
Seatter Street is named for Englishman John S. Seatter, who staked a placer mining claim in that area in 1895. The claim, which included a part of the [...]
Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773 & Jan. 19, 2010
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