Wow... That is seriously good stuff. Who takes pictures of the area they grew up in? Not many...
I remember many of those business names, but some I thought some were a figment of my imagination. I still think anything south of Tudor road as new development (except for friends living on Swiss Place off 88th), and Rabbit Creek is halfway to Homer.
My family lived in the Anchorage area from 1962 to 1981, when we moved to Eagle River. We were at the Government Hill area alot, don't remember why. I spent many hours watching Mom and Dad at the curling club.
You are missing pics of the steam engine on the park strip, and pics of Rocket Park.
My mom and dad worked at the downtown banks, which mostly vanished in the '87 bust. Mom loved the coffee shop in Penney's in the late 60's, and I still remember it.
Say what you want about Tony Knowles, and I'll say alot, but he cleaned out 4th avenue pretty well. My dad was pretty familiar with this area before he got married. His Norwegian Elkhound dog named Skookum was the only dog allowed in the bars, according to him. Pretty scuzzy to look at pics of it now, but 4th anvenue was a fact of life. Those places had to be somewhere, and 4th was it.