Wasilla (yes, that Wasilla) and Palmer, Alaska - Page 2

Mystic City · #21 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 5:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by denveraztec

No wonder folks in Wasilla, and their kids, are spitting out babies right and left! Can't believe the cost and controvery about the AT&T sports center, it is hiddeous. However, thank you Mthq for the post!

You really should not let your politics cloud your mind.

The folks and their kids on the Southside in Chicago are probably spitting them out just as fast. This is a rude statement on my part, and i do apologise...along with spitting them out on the Southside, I bet their forking them out too...but hey, I will always vote for choice.

sf_eddo · #22 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 7:12 AM**

This is absolutely fascinating. I have no idea what "small American towns" in general look like - it's funny how I've lived in suburbs and major urban centers here and abroad, and pictures of my own country suddenly make me feel ignorant and small.

fever · #23 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 7:17 AM**

Neither looks really nice. Wasilla kind of looks like 100 mile house with bigger mountains in the distance.

Comrade · #24 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 8:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by jcchii

the leader of this wasilla place should be put in charge of the entire country as quickly as humanly possible

Totally! Hell, ruler of the world, if you ask me.

glowrock · #25 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 12:57 PM**

Wasilla RULES!!!!!

Aaron (Glowrock)

flar · #26 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 1:05 PM**

Unfortunately a lot of people think this is progress:

KevinFromTexas · #27 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 1:35 PM**

Beautiful country. Those mountains are incredible.

Texas Tuff · #28 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 10:13 PM**

That's certainly a beautiful area that Gov. Palin calls home, although I think Palmer looks better than Wasilla overall (like some others have said, too many strip malls there). Thanks for sharing the pics with us

sf_eddo · #29 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 11:32 PM**

OMG I just noticed the Wasilla Police Department is located right next to Arby's!!! Wasilla has as many Arby's as San Francisco does! And one more Target! I LOOOOOVE Arby's!

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EarnestMoney · #30 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 11:51 PM**

How come ATT gets naming rights when we taxpayers bought Wasilla the $27,000,000 sports complex?

Rico Rommheim · #31 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:04 AM**

Good luck palin death race!!!!!!!

nice pics, shitty looking places.

Dan Denson · #32 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:52 AM**

I'll bet there aren't many wolves and moose still alive in the vicinity of Wasilla.
I wonder if they even have a Humane Society or ASPCA in that town.

Dr. Taco · #33 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 2:33 AM**

Thanks, mthq. I love that you can report in from all the way up in Alaska

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Originally Posted by Raraavis

10 acres and a free house for $105,000 ? That seems like a pretty good deal. I wish I could get that without having to live in Alaska.

Nice Pictures. Thanks.

I would freakin do that! that's amazing!

er... I mean, isn't it bad to have a sprawling property or something?

but seriously, I would buy that. I mean, as a second home, anyway

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Originally Posted by jcchii

the leader of this wasilla place should be put in charge of the entire country as quickly as humanly possible

nice one

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Originally Posted by flar

Unfortunately a lot of people think this is progress:

Fortunately, this is America, and if the people there want to live where they think "progress" is happening, God bless 'em

bgwah · #34 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 3:39 AM**

These photos are a pretty convincing reason to vote Obama.

AaronPGH · #35 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 4:18 AM**

For some reason I feel like I'm watching an episode of Tom Goes to the Mayor while looking at these photos. Oh wait...I know why.

Evergrey · #36 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 4:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by jstush04

Fortunately, this is America, and if the people there want to live where they think "progress" is happening, God bless 'em

Agreed... this is America! USA! USA! USA!

LSyd · #37 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 4:30 AM**

so, is Wasilla effectively a suburb of Palmer then? people leave the nice surroundings of Palmer to go shopping at the Target in Wasilla, then return home and think, "That was hell" only to go check out the train and then go back to Wasilla to buy more shit a few days later?

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mthq · #38 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 8:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by LSyd

so, is Wasilla effectively a suburb of Palmer then? people leave the nice surroundings of Palmer to go shopping at the Target in Wasilla, then return home and think, "That was hell" only to go check out the train and then go back to Wasilla to buy more shit a few days later?

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Pretty much yeah that's how it goes. Palmer has no big-box stores at all, although Wal-Mart has been fighting Palmer officials to build a store for a couple years now. Fred Meyers (a regional version of Wal-Mart/Target) opened up shop in the town, but city officials required that the Fred Meyer store only sell groceries and electronics.

mthq · #39 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 8:19 AM**

By the way thanks for the replies everyone. I always appreciate it when forumers take the time to write back

To answer some questions, Wasilla is the 4th largest city in Alaska after Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. I believe it was Rudy Giuliani who thought it was the second largest. As for why the Sportscenter is named for AT&T -- I actually don't know. I'm guessing they're footing in the maintenance cost.

And yeah, frankly Wasilla is not a city any Alaskan romantices about. For a long time Wasilla has been the whipping boy of Anchorage as Anchorage residents tend to connect Palmer/Wasilla with the redneck stereotype. In more recent times, I'm just beginning to learn that Wasilla may actually be the whipping boy to Alaskans in other towns as my brother knows others who connect Wasilla to its stereotype. Longtime jokes include "All I saw" (Wasilla backwards), and Wasiphillis.

JackStraw · #40 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:37 PM**

I cant see the pictures

I always thought Wasilla to be some urban sprawl, ugly, strip mall area built by retards that have no appreciation for aestetics, the environment, their fellow neighbors, and want a selfish life to live. Pretty much like all suburban areas, and the fact that some neo con comes from there.

All the comments made me feel I was right.

By the photos, is this a real small town that she is so proud to come from, or is this another Moronville, PA?