downtown | la bomba shelter

4-14-14

April 22, 2014 at 3:31 am | Posted in anchorage, photo du jour | Leave a comment
Tags: anchorage, daily photo, downtown, tito's, yakitori

This 25 ft wide little place on 6th Ave. near ‘A’ St. used to be a Japanese restaurant called Yakitori. Recently Tito’s Gyros struggled along here for awhile, and now it is vacant.

8-8-12

August 9, 2012 at 4:33 pm | Posted in architecture and design, photo du jour | Leave a comment
Tags: architecture, daily photo, downtown, olympic peninsula, port townsend, washington state

Port Townsend, Washington.

3-18-12

March 19, 2012 at 4:53 am | Posted in anchorage, photo du jour | Leave a comment
Tags: 1930s, anchorage, birch, daily photo, downtown, house, ice, spring

7th and K house

12-27-10 [from the archives, February 2007]

December 28, 2010 at 8:23 am | Posted in anchorage, photo du jour | Leave a comment
Tags: anchorage, daily photo, downtown, karaoke bar, night, winter, wood shed

Outside the Wood Shed Lounge, W. 3rd Ave., downtown Anchorage.

12-16-10

December 27, 2010 at 1:13 am | Posted in anchorage, photo du jour | Leave a comment
Tags: anchorage, daily photo, dodge caliber, downtown, street, w. 8th ave., winter

Dodge Calibers on 8th Ave.

11-5-10 [from the archives, February 2006]

December 26, 2010 at 10:10 pm | Posted in alaska, anchorage, architecture and design, art, photo du jour | Leave a comment
Tags: alaska art tile, daily photo, downtown, historic building, tile mural

Remnant of a long-defunct business, tile murals at the front and back of the building were exhumed in late '05 from underneath solid coats of tan paint.