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, 9:54 a.m. ADT, July 4, 2009, © 2009

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 baseball field with completion of the building in 1966. The view is from the 8th Level Plaza of the State Office Building with Gastineau Channel and Douglas Island in the background.

Picture by David Kent, 12:04 p.m. ADT, July 27, 2010, © 2010

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 the 1970’s). Mt. Juneau - 3,576 feet, is in the background.

Picture by David Kent, 11:55 a.m. ADT, July 27, 2010, © 2010

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 present cemetery, was found by the land office to be non-mineral in character and Seatter homesteaded and farmed a portion of his original claim. Seatter died at Juneau in 1913.

From The Centennial Gazetteer, Published by the Gastineau Channel Centennial Association, 1979; which is an abridged and updated version edited by Sarah Eppenbach of Some Names Around Juneau, by Robert DeArmond; Published by the Sitka Printing Co., 1957.

Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 2:25 p.m. AST, February 22, 2010, © 2010

Dimond State Courthouse - Juneau

The Dimond State Courthouse - A.D. 1974, was named after Anthony Joseph Dimond: US Commissioner in Chisana, Alaska (1913-1914); Special Assistant US Attorney for the 3rd Judicial Division of Alaska in Valdez (1917); Mayor of Valdez (1920-1922, 1925-1932); Alaska Territorial Senate (1923–1926, 1929–1932); Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska Territory’s at-large congressional district from March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1945; District Judge for the 3rd Division of Alaska (1945–1953); and a champion of statehood.

Main Street is in the foreground and 4th Street is on the left. The corner of the State Capitol is on the far left. In the distance to the right of the sloping glass roof of the Courthouse, the upper stories of the Baranof Hotel are visible and to the lower right of the Courthouse is the State of Alaska’s Community Building. Mt. Roberts is in the background. A reflection of the mountains on Douglas Island can be seen in the windows of the Courthouse.

Pictures by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 12:17 p.m. ADT, August 31, 2009, © 2009

Evergreen Bowl - Cope Park

The old - circa 1908? (now demolished) 8th Street Reservoir is at the bottom left; 7th Street and Chicken Ridge are on the middle left; the Andrew P. Hope Building and part of West Willoughby Avenue are at the far upper left; part of the Casey-Shattuck addition (”The Flats”) is at the upper right; Gold Creek and Mt. Juneau are on the right.

Evergreen Bowl was originally a patented mining claim, the Boston No. 2, U.S. Mineral Survey 926 located January 1, 1897 and patented January 18, 1917.

The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States of America

Now is the time to return to the Founding Principles of our Nation.

Photography by David Kent, April 14, 2009 on the day prior to the Tax Day Tea Parties

Gastineau Peak on Mt. Roberts, a Steam Power Plant, and a Dock

Just left of center is Gastineau Peak (3,666 ft.). The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. (AJ) Auxiliary Steam Power Plant built in A.D. 1916 is at the lower left. Along the shore of Gastineau Channel at the Juneau harbor is the South Franklin (cruise ship) Dock built at the site of the AJ Wharf. The low building along the shore, also with a red roof, is the Miners Cove retail building also built on the site of the AJ Wharf.

Picture by David Kent, 7:02 p.m. ADT, May 23, 2008, © 2009

Mount Bradley

Mount Bradley, also known as Mount Jumbo, is 3,337 feet high and is on Douglas Island with Douglas, Alaska at its foot. In the early years it was named Mount Jumbo, possibly after the Jumbo mining claim located near its base. The people of Douglas in 1939 petitioned the Board of Geographic names to have the mountain renamed after Frederick Worthen Bradley. Mr. Bradley, 1863 - 1933, was president of the Bunker Hill Mine and Sullivan Mine in Idaho, president of the Tacoma Smelting Co., president of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., and president of the Treadwell, Mexican, and Alaska United Gold Mining Companies - the latter three on Douglas Island southeast of Douglas. He was also a director of the First National Bank of Juneau as well as banks in San Francisco. He was awarded the Saunders Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in mining.

Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 7:14 p.m. ADT, June 7, 2008, © 2008