King Salmon Skytel Hotel, 1950


Photo taken and submitted by Brian Fortier

King Salmon Airport (AKN), Alaska, 1950

Skytel, an unusual hotel located on the King Salmon Airport.  One end contained a restaurant run by a young man and his wife.  The remainder of the building contained a single room full of double-decker Army cots.  This was hotel accommodations for airline passengers booked for other destinations but detained by bad weather.