The Salty Dawg saloon is a famous landmark of the town of Homer, Alaska. Homer is a City located in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the US state of Alaska.
History
The Salty Dawg originally was one of the first cabins built in 1897, soon after Homer became a town site. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common It served as the first post office, a railroad station, a grocery store, and a coal mining office for twenty years. A post office is a facility authorized by a Postal system for the posting receipt sorting handling transmission or delivery of Mail. A grocery store is a store established primarily for the Retailing of Food. Coal mining is the extraction or removal of Coal from the Earth by Mining. In 1909 a second building was constructed, and it served as a school house, post office, grocery store. And at one time, it housed three adults and eleven children.
It was acquired in the late 1940s by Chuck Abbatt to be used as an office for Standard Oil Company. In April of 1957, he officially opened it as the Salty Dawg Saloon. By 1960 the Salty Dawg Saloon had a building adjacent to it, coinciding with The Alaska Territory becoming the 49th state of the union in January 1959.
Earl Hillstrand, the late State Representative, purchased it in 1960. After the March 1964 "Good Friday" earthquake, he moved the structure to its present location. The distinctive lighthouse tower was added to cover a water storage tank, thus completing one of Homer's more historical and recognizable landmarks.
The Salty Dawg Saloon is currently owned and operated by John Warren.
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