DARE Interview : Anchorage, Alaska; Primary Informant AK009

Fieldworker

Cassidy, Frederic G.

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AK009: White; male; age: 62 (old); education: college; community type: small city
• Media File:
• Full Interview (Tape 0065-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Coming to Alaska, going from town to town
• 03:20 Supporting mines and miners, government buys railroad to finish it
• 07:00 Move center of railroad stuff to Anchorage
• 09:45 Expansion of Anchorage
• 14:10 Why Anchorage is better than Fairbanks
• 18:10 Oil drilling and oil fields
• 20:45 Becoming the capital or not
• 23:25 Army training bases
• 26:15 Japanese investment in area
• 28:35 Tape end