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Forget-Me-Nots


Jack Roderick

December 17th, 2009

Jack Roderick came to Anchorage in 1954 and wrote “Crude Dreams” about finding oil on the Kenai Peninsula.

He remembers how some local business men who bought leases there, got rich despite themselves.

These oil investors met across the street from the old Federal building.

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