Red Dog Saloon

Juneau


A sign at the door says it all – ‘Booze, Antiques, Sawdust Floor, Community Singing’ – and the cruise-ship passengers love it! Most don’t realize, much less care, that this Red Dog is but a replica of the original, a gold-mining-era Alaskan drinking hole that was across the street until 1987. Now that was a bar.

The duplicate is, well…a duplicate, and once you're in, there's only one way out – through the gift shop.


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