Identifier	UAA-hmc-0461-series15-1-5
Collection Name	Robert and Wilma Knox papers, 1949-2001. UAA-HMC-0461
Title	Bar in McCarthy 1953.
Description	Interior of the bar in McCarthy, Alaska, where a bartender pours drinks for the tourists standing at the bar. A Great Northern Railway calendar is visible on the far wall. From caption: "Just a shot of the old bar where we had a beer before supper. There was one of the phonographs here that I mentioned in the letter and plenty of records so some of the more ambitious people wound it up and danced a bit to some of the 1920 tunes that they found there. The bartender is the man from Oregon who is trying to revive McCarthy as a tourist attraction." In 1953, Cordova Airlines started a regular series of aerial tours from Anchorage, Alaska to the old mining town of Kennicott and the nearby ghost town of McCarthy. This photo is from the first tour. Original photograph size: 5" x 6 1/2".
Creator	Knox, Robert G.
Required citation	Robert and Wilma Knox papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Subject.TGM	Bars Tourists Men Women Bartenders Eating & drinking Barrooms Bars (Furniture) Bottles Cash registers Stools Alcoholic beverages Hats Calendars
Location	McCarthy (Alaska)
Region	Southcentral Alaska
Time Period	1939 to 1959
Date.original	1953
Type	Image (Photographs)
Related Materials	https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/collections/specialcollections/hmc-0461
Ordering & Use	https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/collections/online-materials/
Holding Institution	University of Alaska Anchorage. Consortium Library. Archives & Special Collections. 3211 Providence Dr. Anchorage, AK 99508, 1-907-786-1849. mailto:uaa_archives@alaska.edu
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