Society & Culture

The Alaska Podcast (HD)

Bob Kaufman

Alaska's podcast in HD for travel and adventure.

Episodes

12 episodes

These simple cottages, housing Alaska Engineering Commission engineers and railroad workers, started dotting the landscape of Anchorage in t...

Mar 13, 2010

This clearing at the edge of town once functioned as a firebreak between Anchorage and its neighboring forest. At other times, it acted as a...

Mar 13, 2010

Wendler Building (HD) In such a male-centric city, it has often been tough for Anchorage’s ladies to sit down and enjoy a cocktail without—w...

Mar 13, 2010

Oscar Gill House (HD) Oscar Gill was a local statesman who played a key role in Alaska gaining statehood, but his house achieved fame all on...

Mar 13, 2010

Oscar Anderson House (HD) This 1915 A-frame building was the first actual home built in Anchorage, initially standing out amongst the sea of...

Mar 13, 2010

Old City Hall (HD) When it went up in 1936, this was—for a little while, at least—Anchorage’s biggest building, encompassing every major mun...

Mar 13, 2010

4th Ave Theatre (HD) this grand, art-deco theatre was opened in 1947 by Cap Lathrop, a 20th-century media mogul who wanted to establish Alas...

Mar 13, 2010

Anchorage Hotel (HD) In 1916, this two-story “high rise” was Anchorage’s first wooden building, towering over the tent city that comprised t...

Mar 13, 2010

Anchorage Federal Building (HD) It was huge, bold and smacked of permanence. Anchorage’s first concrete building was built in 1939 by the U....

Mar 13, 2010

Anchorage Log Cabin (HD) The striking little house—note its completely sod roof—is still the headquarters for the Anchorage Convention and V...

Mar 13, 2010

Loussac Sogn Building (HD) "Zack" Loussac was a Russian immigrant who came to Alaska in the early 20th century, ran a successful drugstore i...

Mar 13, 2010

Discover the Kenai Peninsula in this HD video introduction - Alaska’s Playground. Produced for Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council

Oct 5, 2009