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To: thackney
Only in Alaska, Igloo Condo's
29 posted on 10/19/2005 8:27:24 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Okay, it is not actually a Condo...

Had it ever opened, the Igloo City Resort at Mile 188.5 Parks Highway surely would have attracted travelers interested in an offbeat place to stay between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Imagine the appeal: Tourists could have returned home and bragged to friends that they had slept in a real Alaska igloo.

Sadly, the faux-ice igloo's owners ran out of money before the hotel was complete. Today the half-built white hulk sits abandoned next to the rest of the "resort" - two small cabins, a wash house, a gas station and a convenience store.

"It's just a landmark, aging not very gracefully," said Machel Hill, the resort's manager.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/050403/out_touriststops.shtml


31 posted on 10/19/2005 8:29:54 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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love your additions to our thread! you fit right in & hope you will visit again (even when we have "other" topics)

I recall in several movies beautiful ICE hotels.. is there one in Alaska? I also recall the fun scene of Superman's ice "home" & always wondered if that was shot in alaska


32 posted on 10/19/2005 8:31:36 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your s God is!)
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