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Decades before Anchorage’s hot air balloon heyday, the ‘Prince of the Air’ took to Alaska’s skies
A hot air balloon drifts low on the east side of Anchorage behind Providence Hospital Sunday morning on October 6, 1991. (Jim Lavrakas / ADN archive) Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question …