The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
IN JUNEAU DANCE
 HALLS IN '89
Pla e So Crow d ed on Christmas Night, No
 Room for Fight

eiasS Sicu dioic III tut SOlu cdtnp the town was at that time, the day had little meaning except for a gay carousal when perhaps the nostalgia inevitable to most folks at the Christmas time of the year, for the days before they had gone adventuring, might be swept away by hootch and dancing and fighting.
 Louis Lund, one of Juneau we'll known old timers. was one of the boys in that winter who had left relatives far behind when he set out for the northland and so on the Christmas holiday he followed the crowd, which led him he said to Wheelock's dance nall
 In the Dance Halls
 The dance hall was owned and operated by s. 0. Wheelock and was one of the largest in tho camp, standing where the Me CanPs garage is now located. Most of the crowd was there this Christmas night of 1889, MT. Lund said, and the place was so crowd ed it was impossible for a figh 10 take place and it was ever difficult to clear q space for danc ing.
 Whielock made HOO that night and George Miller, who T he later quiet days of the town operated the Circle City hotel oi Third street, recently demolished made $400 during the night. ir his restaurant which was nex loor to Wheeloak's.
 On'y Two White Girls
 There were only two whit rirls in the camp who went tc the dance halls then. MT Lun'i said, French girl called Georgia md Esther Duffey. The othc girls were Indians. After eac,! lance it was the custom in tn dance halls to go to the bar for drink and in the days Mr Lund tells of. the men were glv en the whiskey and the Indiar girls received an apple. The. were as apprcciative of the ap oles as the white girls were Q the gift of a nugget.
 Recalling his first Christmas ir  Juneau MT. Lund related other ia. cidents of the camp in 1889 and particularly interesting were hi accounts of the location of various buildings at that time.
 33 Saloons
 There were B saloons am lance halls of which the most prominent were Wheelock's. tn New Zealand or Brady Building which stood where the Harri paint shop is now located on Sec ,nd Street and was connected by m alley to the Occidental Hotc' and to Front Street; The Opera House on the corner of Second md Seward Streets; the Missouri later called the Louvre on Front Street which until recently hous- ei the Boston Store; and tn Montana saloon next the presep Juneau Billiards building. Frencl Pete, discoverer of gold on Doug las Island. whose claims was de yeloped into the famous Tread well mine and who died in poy arty, operated a dance hall on 9 scow which was made fast on tn beach where the present baseball park is located in the Casey-Shat uck Addition.
 Old Established Firm
 If is interesting to note that he c. w. Young Company wts one of the oldest established firms, doing business until abou two years ago, in the same loca lion where it was started Whcr he came to Juneau in 1889, MT Lund said the Young brothers had built a small store where tho present building of the Juneau Young Hardware company now stands and conducted a hardware business, gradually increasing their business as the town grew until they constructed the pres snt building.
 The Sitka Trading company. Q general store, stood where the Thomas Hardware company store is now located. Decker Bros, or srated store next to where the s;impkins bindery now stands and Kohler & James had a stors where Goldstein's Emporium is located
 one Boat a Month
 There was but one boat month in those days and it was in com mand of Capt. James Call. Even in those days there were tourists MT. Lund said, and he recalled occasions when the captain called on his friend. Dick Willoughby. college graduate and an intellec- tual man. who gave over his life to the north, to help him enter tain the visitors. Dick Willough- by was we'll known for his clown ing and played no end of tricks on the gullible tourists, Mir. Lund said.
 eThose were great old days" eofd Mir Ta,nd Naud ~ro uant