Skip Larsen 1966 Travelogue

Dateline: June 1, 2024. Last update; July 9, 2024.

    The photos of Whitehorse below were shot on Kodachrome slide film by Skip Larsen during a 6-week trip through the Yukon Territory and Alaska in 1966 - see the link above for more information about that trip and many more photos from it.

    We have posted 16 of the 20 photos in this part of the collection.

    Click on each image to greatly enlarge it.

Looking up 4th Avenue from Lambert Street - Main Street is past the Taku Hotel, the large building on the right.

The Bamboo Lounge and Alpine Motel, located on Rogers Street east of 2nd Avenue, where the Yukon Legislative Building parking lot is now.

Looking down the Yukon River to the old steamboat shipyards.

A passenger car of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway, which offered regular passenger and freight service from Whitehorse to Skagway, including flatcars to move vehicles.

The Casca and Whitehorse. They were both destroyed in a fire 8 years later, on June 21, 1974.

The Sourdough Antique Shop on First Avenue across from the steamboats. It was run by Mrs. McCandless. The adults in the photo are Donna Soine looking in the window, and Gloria Larsen and Malcolm Soine.

A White Pass train and other freight and passengers cars on a track in front of it.

At the MacBride Museum: "The old Tram Car was operated on wooden rails around Miles Canyon and Whitehorse Rapids from 1898 to 1900. The White Pass Railway came thru to Whitehorse on June 8, 1900, and then the Tram Services were discontinued."

Engine No. 51 at the MacBride Museum.

"Engine No. 51 was built by Brooks Locomotive Works in 1881 and was used on the White Pass Railroad in 1898, later on the Taku Tram between Atlin Lake and Tagish Lakes, a Two Mite Railroad, one of the shortest Commercial Railways in the world."

Sam McGee's Cabin at the MacBride Museum.

Settled in at the Robert Service Campground on the Yukon River at the eastern edge of downtown Whitehorse.

The girls cooling off in the Yukon River near the campground.

From June 23-26, 1966, the sternwheeler Klondike was towed through town to her present location near the Robert Campbell Bridge, where she is a National Historic Site.

These 3 photos of the move would have been shot on June 23rd.