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Princess Cruises’ Sapphire Princess in the Juneau Harbor
AJ (Mine) Steam Power Plant Building on the left and Mt. Roberts in the background.
Picture by David Kent, 9:09 p.m. ADT, July 29, 2008, © 2011
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)
WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE
Princess Cruises’ Sapphire Princess in the Juneau Harbor
AJ (Mine) Steam Power Plant Building on the left and Mt. Roberts in the background.
Picture by David Kent, 9:09 p.m. ADT, July 29, 2008, © 2011
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]