The Bonanza in the 1980s

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I can no longer remember the source of this photo. It was probably taken from the Alaska Magazine back in the early 1980s.  The tram terminal and much of the ore bunker is still intact and even the barrack on the left is still standing.  It was pictures like this one back then that really helped awaken my curiosity about Kennecott.

I used to sit in the cafe at the old Hub at Glennallen in the late 1970s and hear stories from one guy that traveled in and out of McCarthy.  He worked at McCarthy lodge as a cook back then but made occasional trips up to the mine sites. He would tell us about how the adits--the old mine entrances-- were mostly iced-over but that sometimes holes would open up and air would be blasting through those.  Curious, indeed.

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