{"id":106,"date":"2004-03-20T22:37:58","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/20\/day_two_in_anchorage_shacks.html"},"modified":"2004-03-20T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T05:37:58","slug":"day_two_in_anchorage_shacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/20\/day_two_in_anchorage_shacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Day Two in Anchorage: Shacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, a photo from last night’s sunset, taken after we all got back from dinner at the Bear Tooth:

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Not unusual, but still spectacular. <\/p>\n

Today began with Mom’s departure for Utah\/Vegas at 5 am, and in between unpacking and moving Dad’s desk, I upgraded his computer and watched Buddy Buddy<\/I>. What an incredible, underrated movie: in addition to Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, it’s got Dana “Col. Lard from ‘Black Sheep Squadron’\/Pete from ‘MacGyver'” Elcar, Ed Begley, Jr., and Klaus Kinski (!) channeling Peter Sellers. And it’s funny, too.<\/p>\n

I took off this afternoon for my annual coffee shack round-up, new locations thanks to Mom, who did some advance scouting. While looking for the five or so she had listed, I found another six or so, to bring the total to around 80 different ones since 1998. Some locations have seen a few different shacks come through, and one location has even spawned a mini-shack, no bigger than a couple of phone booths together. But my favorite had to be the abandoned bank drive-through ATM that is now a drive-through coffee shop. It’s like some kind of weird reverse-evolution. <\/p>\n

I saw Wayne at Cook Inlet<\/A> and we swapped stories about turning 29 and 60, respectively, on the same day six weeks ago. Down the street, our old haunt Cyrano’s<\/A> has become a shell of a book store, with a meager selection of Alaskana and a random assortment of other books that are either half-off or $2 flat. It’s sad to see the once-vibrant and inspiring little place go from full-service bookstore, cinema, caf?, and theater to a theater with occasional caf? and no books, as the outer rooms have been eaten up by neighboring antler-carving studios and fur shops. Downtown Anchorage as a whole, at least 4th and 5th Avenues, seem so much more tourist-oriented than I remember. It’s a wonder so many similarly-themed stores can survive set one next to the other like they are. <\/p>\n

I’ll put up the new coffee shack photos<\/A> when I have time, but for now, I submit a photo of something I saw while turning around to catch “Java Junky,” or maybe it was “Mocha Mutts,” I can’t remember.

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