After finishing the laundry, we drove to town to eat lunch at the Red Onion Saloon. We sat at the bar to wait for a table and ordered 2 Kodiak Brown beers. We both ordered the Trollop sandwich ($9.50 ea.)– a turkey & provolone on a deli roll - & 2 Kodiak Brown beers ($5.50 ea.) from Jess. Our sandwiches and beers were excellent.
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| From Red Onion Saloon |
We waited around to go on the Brothel Tour of the upstairs at 1:00.
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| From Red Onion Saloon |
We paid $5 each to our guide, Miss DeFlowers, and she explained about the procedures in the brothel.
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| From Red Onion Saloon |
Down in the saloon were dolls that represented each of the girls and the men would chose the girl from the dolls. The bartender would lay the doll down and that meant she was occupied until the customer left. When a new girl came in to the brothel, she could “remodel” her crib and chose new wallpaper. Several layers of different wallpaper has been uncovered during the restoration of the upstairs.
Afterwards we walked around town and stopped at Corrington’s Ivory Museum. This Mammoth Hunters carving took the artist almost 2 years to complete and was so intricate that Mike made a movie of it showing all the detail.
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| From More Skagway Photos |
Our nest stop was at the Days of ‘98 Show with Soapy Smith to watch the 2:30 show – a MUST See in Skagway. The show is in its’ 87th season and after paying $36.00 (after AAA discount for both of us), we went into the theater.
The play is about local outlaw Jefferson R. “Soapy” Smith and Belle Davenport and her “soiled doves”, Squirrel-Tooth Annie and Phewclothes Mollie. Soapy Smith started out selling soap – hence the name. He was a con man, saloon keeper, leader of a gang and tried to establish himself as a solid citizen.
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| From Days of '98 Show |
The cast always chooses a couple of audience members to participate in the show and this fellow, Dick, was chosen by Alice & Mollie.
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| From Days of '98 Show |
The next audience member participation was to dance the Can-Can. Alice chose someone and Mollie chose ME. After we were given a quick Can-Can lesson, we did it for real. Of course, Mike was filming it the whole time – I’ve put a clip of the movie in our album. It was a great show and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
Our next stop was at the Skagway Museum and Archives where we saw antiques and photos from Skagway’s history.
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| From Skagway Museum & Archives |
We even saw Soapy Smith’s Derringer in a case.
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| From Skagway Museum & Archives |
Our last stop for the day was at the Gold Rush Cemetery to see Jefferson R. “Soapy" Smith’s grave.
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| From Gold Rush Cemetery |
There is a marked difference between Soapy Smith’s grave stone and the one for Frank Reid who headed up the Committee of 101 that wanted to rid Skagway of Soapy Smith.
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| From Gold Rush Cemetery |
We had a lot of fun visiting here in Skagway and I’m proud to say that we did our own little part in helping the town’s economy. Skagway may be a town that caters to tourists, but unlike some tourist towns that are not kept up or are cheesy everything here was attractive and well-kept.
Tomorrow we leave and head north and eventually south back to the lower 48.
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