Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Banks were making news around here 50 years ago. The Valley Bank opened and First National Bank was resplendent with granite following a complete renovation. The Valley Bank of Grand Forks, formerly ...

Maybe you remember your first time, that first tentative step onto the mystically moving stairs inside the First National Bank building in downtown Grand Forks. Jim Hawley estimates the age of the ...

Standing a mere six feet high and made of cast steel, Jesse Reno's "inclined elevator" must have looked plenty odd to people visiting Coney Island in the fall of 1896. Essentially a slow-moving single ...

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A recent visit to Boscov’s with my wife brought back memories of walking through the building when it was Fowler, Dick & Walker’s Department Store. Most of us know it as Fowler’s, and it originally ...