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Subject:Re: Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn
Date:Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:38:27 EST

yea seriously.  i get blasted by ben and david for typing the  letters W.T.
and F together, yet this can pass?   i thought it  was another Porn spam to
the list with a subject heading like  that. no apparent van content either.
 No offense john, i like  you man,  but seriously  did you even think
before you typed this??  LOL!!!

 In a message dated 12/9/2010 11:51:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM writes:

Hey  John, is it Friday already where you live ?

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:13  AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:

>  Tonight I  was looking at old pics, travel logs, etc, reminiscing about
> my living  and traveling in Alaska over the years - thinking about such
> exotic  watering holes as Mr. Whitekeys Club in Anchorage, the Red Dog
> Saloon  in Juneau, Malemute Saloon near Fairbanks, Eadies at Kenai, The
> Blue  Goose out Bethel way, the Salty Dawg Saloon on the spit at Homer,
> and  the Bird House Bar near Indian out Turnagain Arm, Sourdough Creek
>  Lodge up near Glenallen - just to name a few. Many of these are gone
>  now, and just fading memories, but the most famous (infamous?)of all I
>  remember was Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn about halfway  between Nenana  and
> Fairbanks on the Parks Highway. Last I heard, Skinny sold it some  5-6
> years ago, and had since died, but rumors persist, and on the  internet
> there is a lot about the place, some of it even saying Skinny  is still
> living and that the Inn still exists. Hard to tell  from  the internet
> just what the truth is.  I'm just wondering if any  of you Alaska types
> today know what the status of the old inn actually  is.
>