Wasilla Senior Class 1973

What about this one?

A nice bright Williwaw lodge from day gone bye my first job as a kid was painting the rocks that lined the driveway

1948 in color

Early Wasilla 1948

1935 Wasilla Lake looks like where Green Acres was built later.

The 1973 class clown and the class president together in sunny Florida

Wasilla in 1965

The few people remaining, most directly involved with supporting the Willow Creek District mines, set their eyes on the proposed townsite where the railroad would cross the Carle Wagon Road, on the high ground between Wasilla Lake and Lake Lucile. This would become the freight transfer site between the railroad and the mines. It would also be the support center for homesteaders beginning to move into the area.

Auction of lots in progress, June 20, 1917. (P. S. Hunt, ARR Collection, Anchorage Museum, B1979.002.AEC G563) In late 1916, as clearing began through this new “Wassila” section of the railroad, a tent camp sprang up along the right-of-way. The camp included businesses to support the railroad crews, contractors cutting ties and telegraph poles, and workers doing the clearing and grading. Businesses included Mrs. Small’s tent roadhouse, the Kidd’s eating place, Clark Davis’s soft drink and card room, Howard W. Wilmoth’s tent hardware store, and Herning’s temporary store building and future warehouse. On February 20, 1917,

Main Street looking north on day of auction, June 20, 1917. Bald Mountain rises in the background. (P. H. Hunt, ARR Collection, Anchorage Museum, B1979.002.AEC G558) About 9 a.m. on the morning of June 20, 1917, the crowd began to gather, and the railroad crew set up a table and chart-board on a flat car.

Early Wasilla Main Street looking north on Oct. 11, 1918. Wilmoth’s hardware store on left, Herning’s KTC in middle and railroad station front right. The Hartman’s roadhouse is hidden behind Hernings.