{"id":3907,"date":"2015-08-30T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2015-08-30T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:40:03","slug":"good-time-girls-skagway-alaska-09272015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"Good Time Girls \u2013 Skagway, Alaska \u2013 [09\/27\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ed645da649cac71f4205cf15b9de83e5\"<\/a>Raindrops keep falling on my head
\nBut that doesn\u2019t mean my eyes
\nWill soon be turning red
\nCryin s\u2019not for me
\n\u2018Cause I\u2019m never gonna stop the rain
\nBy complaining\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that we were overdue for a little liquid sunshine. A lot of us were wondering what exactly had happened to leave Alaska so breathtakingly sunny in what\u2019s usually the dankest time of the season. Today, the spell broke and we got our share. Skagway was washed clean by a heavy dose of chill August rain\u2026<\/p>\n

We found refuge in the local saloon (and yes it really is a saloon, used to be more than just that), and had an early lunch before heading back out into the elements to get to the theatre for one of the last showings of Days of \u201998<\/em>, which has been running since 1937 in the tiny little local Eagle Hall. Still a story that\u2019s \u201cmostly true\u201d it\u2019s a lot of fun to see a bit of history brought to life by a small but determined and talented cast \u2013 and at least this time they didn\u2019t try to pull me up on stage. Which is good, because I had promised that if they did I would actually do it, and I was somewhat at a loss as to how to get out<\/em> of that promise!<\/p>\n

We were planning on getting Old Time Photos taken at the local studio, but my camera (which is the only one we had with us) is just about dead and I\u2019m waiting for my replacement charger to arrive (please come in Vancouver please please please), and it was just too wet and rainy to wait for the photographer to open up again anyway \u2013 so we decided to leave that for next time. Instead we made our way back to the saloon and took the tour of the \u2018upstairs\u2019 museum\u2026<\/p>\n

The Red Onion used to be a house of ill-repute (so to speak), in fact one of the original red lanterns is kept hanging on the wall in the museum\u2019s lobby. It\u2019s a tiny little place, the walls for the crib rooms have been mostly taken out, but you can see where they would have been. 10×10 rooms, each decorated to the taste of the girl living and working there. In one room they found 18 layers of wallpaper! Apparently there was a very high turnover rate, which is not exactly surprising. It was a rough time and a rough town, and a very dangerous line of work. No resident doctor, no real medical knowledge of what precautions to take (latex hadn\u2019t been invented yet, they used lambskin\u2026and re-used<\/em> it, because hey, things were expensive!)\u2026<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t imagine\u2026<\/p>\n

Of course, the place is haunted, which should come as no surprise. I suspect the reason the girl in question is more prevalent in one particular corner is because she probably lived there, but she didn\u2019t make herself known to me. Except for a vague feeling of someone smiling just over my shoulder. Like there was someone in the room sharing a joke with the tour guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raindrops keep falling on my head But that doesn\u2019t mean my eyes Will soon be turning red Cryin s\u2019not for me \u2018Cause I\u2019m never gonna stop the rain By complaining\u2026 It\u2019s true that we were overdue for a little liquid … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,80,16,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-northern-exposure-2015","category-ports-of-call","category-summer-contracts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-111","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}