Dawson City: Maybe if the cruise ships had left Skagway alone, it would look like Dawson City. We really liked it. It has dirt streets, wooden sidewalks like in the cowboy movies, and many original buildings, some of which are obviously NOT restored. Those that are restored are Victorian style, painted in the rainbow of colors popular at that time. New buildings fit into this style, including the government building. You have to look closely at signs, because sometimes the sign on the false front of the building is not what’s inside. Dawson is a real town, not a tourist showplace, and the business is still placer mining. (Yesterday, Tom actually got a lesson in gold mining from a local couple, retired federal civil service, who gold pan as a hobby. He also learned from a
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