Anchorage, Alaska, changes from frontier town to modern city
Saturday, February 16, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In a city where fashion sense has always played a distant second to staying warm, a cluster of boutiques in the budding "SoNo" district, south of Alaska's only Nordstrom store, does a surprisingly brisk business in $50 body lotions and $180 designer jeans.
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