Anchorage Tour (HD): Delaney Park "Park Strip"

The Alaska Podcast (HD) by Bob Kaufman

Mar 13, 2010Society & Culture

This clearing at the edge of town once functioned as a firebreak between Anchorage and its neighboring forest. At other times, it acted as an airstrip, a golf course and even a makeshift housing development, when people...

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