Anchorage, Alaska, 1955

Ongoing since the mid-1930s, the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous – a.k.a. Fur Rondy – takes place in February of each year and for many years included the Fur Rondy Grand Prix, perhaps the only city street auto race to use snowbanks as safety berms. Presumably the sign strung across Fourth Street in today’s carspotting photo means that the photo was taken in the wintertime, though we see no snow on the streets or mountaintops, as we’d expect. Is the Fur Rondy just so big that it warrants a year-round street banner? And what do you see here?