Tagged: John Hajdukovich

Marge Gull painting of Big Delta (Rika’s) Roadhouse

This is a painting by Marge Gull depicting the roadhouse at Big Delta in about 1915. (I’ve seen the original photo.) Located at mile 275 of the Valdez-Fairbanks Trail (90 miles from Fairbanks), it...

Old McCarty’s trading post foundation shows up though Fall’s leafless trees

We have had a very nice lingering Fall this year. It is October 17th and normally everything would be frozen already, but we are still having + 50 degree days. We took a drive...

Rika’s Roadhouse still important fixture along Richardson Highway

Rika’s Roadhouse in later winter 2011 Big Delta—so named because of its location at the confluence of the Delta and Tanana Rivers, and to differentiate it from Delta Telegraph Station on the nearby Little...