by Frozen Chosen » Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:25 am
Boy Dash, you got my memory chip spinnin' like no one ever has...I have to look long and hard to see if i can recognize the musher Dash, but I do know the buildings very well. That reddish brown building at immediate left is the "old" theater. Remember this was taken back during the good ole' days for some of our younger fans, back in 1978. That building is called the Nomerama Nicolodeon, but was called the Nomerama Theater from when i was there in the mid 60s to late 70s. I cut my teeth on all the good flicks there: the good the bad the ugly, dirty dozen, goodbye mr chips, something fields (starring S. Poiti-aye and who was it, hepburn?) , etc.
The next building, with the funny roof front, was where my dad used to cash his checks back in the late 60s to early 70s. My dad never had a bank acct, and never stepped into a bank. You could cash your check at this local hardware store (for no fee back then!), which is the building next to the theater. I bought my lumber at this place for my cabin I built about 70 miles northwest and inland of the burled arch.
The next building, the large beige-whitish one, is the Old Federal Building. It has been turned into a market place, with telecommunications like GCI (sound familiar?), a pizza place, subway (the long-tubed sandwich franchise that maybe you foreigner never heard of), a bank, etc. It was an abandoned building until the late 70s, when all these shops came in. JohnC's kids did their Iditarod class/news cast from inside there (remember when i did my Inupiat dance?) It was the Iditarod that revived that building! Nome was a "dying" ole' gold rush town in the late 60s, early 70s. Then, one spring day, in March of 73', a dogteam made it's way down Front Street. I remember that day as clear as today is...
Whaz zup...