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- 5/07/2009 4:10 pm - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia : It is true that they have no original artifacts from the building in 1898. However, nor did they have anything for the Mascot Saloon, yet they completely recreated EVERYTHING in the saloon to match the way it looked in 1910. The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park has little devoted ...
- 5/06/2009 9:34 pm - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia : Stephanie, although I understand that Itjen, Pullen, and perhaps even Rapuzzi are important to Skagway, their stories can be told in any building in Skagway, however, Jeff Smith's Parlor is uniquely Soapy. His story belongs in his old saloon. Jeff Smith author of [i]Alias Soapy Smith, the Life and Death ...
- 3/05/2009 5:01 pm - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia : Hi, Jim. Thanks for the response. I do better understand the meaning of your original post. However, if you saw some of the photographs and read the first public made accounts of the Rapuzzi collection you will recall that along with the great early historical collectibles were toilets and items ...
- 3/05/2009 8:26 am - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia : Jim Burnett writes, "[i]I hope the cost to restore and maintain the donated buildings won't make this a burden rather than a blessing.[/i]" Reading this I have to wonder if he knows who Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith was? Naturally, being a descendant of Soapy I am a little bias but ...
