Answering reader questions, Anchorage historian David Reamer delves into the name of Suicide Peaks, movies about pipeline construction and the story of a unique low-tide-only ballpark in Ketchikan.
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The U.S. Geological Survey claims “Suicide Peak” was a local name first documented in 1951 and with an otherwise unknown origin. If the name derived from actual suicides, that information is likely lost to history. In as much as there is one, the plot aimlessly accompanies the young leads as they abandon California for the chance to make their fortunes in Alaska. What follows are several itinerant jobs, robberies, a kidnapping, a car chase, and killing a bear for food, an inconsequential series of events that ends with an escape into Canada and the chance to do it all again someday. There is also a literal pissing contest.
What’s the backstory on that house at Ninth Avenue and E Street, on a diagonal from the train engine on the Park Strip?
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