Tonight – Dinner and a Show, Skagway style!! The show came first. The "Days of ’98 Show" has been running in Skagway for 84 years, since 1925. It’s the loosely-based, highly interpretive story of the last days of Jefferson “Soapy” Smith, con man extraordinaire and legend of Skagway. The show is full of local talent doing the acting, singing and dancing, along the lines of the Six Flags shows but with a lot less people. Tonight’s show had just 4 actors, one piano player and a one-man opening act. They were all very good and we both really enjoyed the show.
When we left the show it was a little after 9 pm, and we went looking for a place to have dinner. We found one restaurant open – a combination Greek-and-Italian restaurant. We ordered pita bread with gyro sauce as an appetizer and split a burger-and-fries plate. Don’t know if they considered the burger to be Greek or Italian, but it was pretty good.
Greek and Italia is an unusual combination for a restaurant, but because Skagway is so small, lots of businesses offer a combination of services. For example, the Post Office doubles as an Advertisement center, with a bulletin board that lists services as wide-ranging as massages, halibut sales and babysitting. And the Hardware store sells kitchen products and garden supplies. One store that doesn’t double-up on function is the grocery store. There is one – just one – grocery store that we’ve found – Fairway Market. (There are a couple of organic stores with a few food products, but they don’t have enough to be called a grocery store.) For some reason Fairway put an advertisement in the local newspaper. Don’t see the sense in that - there is no place else to shop!!! Tuesday we heard that the market would have bananas in the next day, so Wednesday afternoon I stopped in. They had four bunches of bananas. I bought two – one for us and one for a friend – and there went half their supply. I’m sure the other two were gone within the hour, and who knows when they will get more in!
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