FAIRBANKS - The Salty Dawg Saloon has been a Homer Spit landmark for more than 60 years. Part of the structure dates to the end of the 19th century, when the Spit was an on again, off again ...

In 1896, Homer Pennock arrived in a sleepy seaside hamlet in southern Alaska hoping to strike ... In front of Buttwhackers, the Salty Dawg saloon with its distinctive lighthouse tower is the ...