Willie Goodwin and 11 year-old adopted daughter Martha in Candle May, 1945:

Willie & Mary Goodwin

Willie & Mary Goodwin Trip from Candle to Keewalik:

Janet Lee in Dogsled:

Janet Lee in Keewalik by Abandoned Shack:

Archie Ferguson's Store. Taken 10-01-045.
Tall man on left is Gene Jack, Pilot & Manager of Arctic Circle Exploration Mining Operations at Candle.

Dancers and Drummers July 30, 1047 at the School House:

Thanks William Gregory!

Kotzebue Radar Site 1969

Kotzebue Radar Site 1977

Both pictures taken during preparations for an "Ice Fishing Contest" on ice off Front St. March, 1969

In center is C.C, Kelly (with pipe) 748 AC&W Sq. Commander.

Should be 1977 or 1978
People identified fo far: Martin Woods, Snooky Wilson, Brad Reeve, Wayne Norton, Virgil Kennedy, Dolly or Frances Arnold, Phyllis Short, Ed Burrk, Cordella Mendenhall, Glenda McLuke, Gilbert Schaeffer.
Can you find any more?

Photos taken in 1945-1947

March, 1947 - Archie Ferguson's wife Beulah Levy

April, 1947 - Archie Ferguson & Doc Rabeau. He was the only M.D. in town.

April, 1947 - Isaac Hensley delivering Ice and Sheefish

April, 1947 - Archie Ferguson & Restaurant

April, 1947 - John Cross & Molly Berryman

April, 1947 - Alice Connelly, Jo Checkmite & Evelyn Reich, Nurses at Hospital

1947 - Dot Halbasch in snowbank by Radio Station

April, 1947 - Edna & Julie Todhunter

1945 - Eric, Betty, Butch and Dorothy at our back door

1945-1947 - Hospital (Now the School District building)

April, 1947 - John Cross Magid Building

March 1947 - Molly Berryman

March 1947 - Hugo & Gretchen Eckhart

March 1947 - Louis Rotman

1945 - 1947 - Kotzebue School

1945 - 1947 - Judy Halbasch - Ice breaking up in sound. Her new white rabbit parka.

1945 - 1947 - John Cross Trading Post

March 1947 - Uptown stores.
No roads, no cars. 2-3 mile walk to Radio Station.

March 1947 - Front Businesses

March 1947 - Jim Blanning (ACS) Bev Blanning

March 1947 - Chief Bob Halbasch at Kotzebue Station
Our dog - Siberian Husky

March 1947 - McEllan (Teacher) fish racks

March 1947 - Clara Rotman and Myra Levy - Rotman's Store

Early in World War II, the C.A.A.[precursor to the F.A.A.] established a series of weather/ Aviation Radio Stations in Western and S.E. Alaska. Their job was to provide Air to Ground Communications and weather information to local aircraft [Archie] and to military aircraft en route to Russia. Dot was a radio operator and used morse code to transmit this information. They lived in Government housing somewhere near the airport. No RADAR in those days. There was not one motorized vehicle in town. To go the 2-3 miles to town, they walked or went by dog sled!