This building at 813 W. 3rd Ave. has been on my radar for a while. I first learned more about its Chickaloon origins in a history book. More recently, I consulted the book, Patterns of the Past, ...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/the-chickaloon-apartments/
It’s not often that we receive a ballot with 48 candidates for one office! Never voted in a California “jungle primary” or anything like one. It can be confusing if you are undecided — so...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/special-election-guide/
Around here nearly all daily activity revolves around the MLB schedule. It is even reasonably predicitive of the weather — about half the time when I’m watching either the first game of the s...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2021/09/27/season-ending-scrawl/
One of my projects in 2020 has been recording podcasts with retired Anchorage architect Ralph Alley. I’ve been a fan of his work for a long time and for me it’s been like speaking to a childh...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/stalking-1960s-anchorage/
First bike journey in many months. Not sure why I stopped going. Will have to start getting out there again.
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/seen-on-a-bike-ride/
One gets busy with work and life and forgets to stop and smell the abandoned buildings. Tonight for a couple hours I got back out there and checked on the condition of the less celebrated parts...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/evening-bike-around-anchorage-remnants/
I was awkward, socially inept and introverted to a fault when I was a kid. I came by it honestly, somehow. These was nothing wrong with my upbringing or my parents. My siblings were not th...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/that-time-i-got-crosswise-with-the-crossing-guard/
I guess I grew cynical over the last several election cycles, and was surprised and unprepared when Ethan Berkowitz won the Mayoral race earlier this year. Berkowitz, a Democrat has now teamed...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/renewal-of-faith-in-city-planning-maybe/
Yesterday I continued my strange quest walking in the decades old steps of master documentary photographer Stephen Cysewski. As in the first expedition last week, the results were mixed but the j...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/stalking-cysewski-part-ii/
This was an idea of Jon Lang’s — a longtime friend who has come into his own as an independent Producer/Director of art films lately. Stephen Cysewski has been getting lots of buzz for a l...
https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/updating-cysewski/