Why the Northernmost Town in America Exists

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Barrow, Alaska no longer exists. It has since been renamed to be Utqiagvik. The renaming happened 2 years ago, roughly 1 year after this video was made. Please upvote this comment so that the curious google map dwellers may find it.

$15 for hand sanitizer and $20 for toilet paper. Barrow was truly ahead of its time.

plays with friends Mom: be back by dark Me: Ok, see you next month

That’ll be $17 Oh, it’s delivery? No. Digiorno.

You could date a girl for 2 months, and it would be a one night stand!

I love how every video starts with something random, and then suddenly turns into an airplane video around three minutes in

I find these towns interesting, yet at the same time the lack of greenery is so depressing.

I visited Anchorage for the first time this past May. My hotel was next to the Alaska native hospital. Checking in in front of me were natives from Barrow, who all had large coolers with them. After their health check-ups, they planned to shop for food -- before flying back north to Barrow. Brilliant.

I guess the “Dollar Tree” is the “Twenty Dollars Bush” in Barrow.

Met a kid last name Oenga who lived in Barrow, Alaska when I was in US Army infantry basic training, Ft. Benning Georgia. He's never been to the lower 48 states. He joined the Army and next he was in pure Georgia summer 100+ degree F (37.7+ C) with a heat index reaching even higher. Felt bad for this kid because he dropped from heat exhaustion so much, we had a betting pool on when he'd drop again. Even the drill sgts knew this kid likely never felt 100 degrees his whole life, now he's "full battle rattle" (fully geared up, body armor, helmet, in pants and long sleeves, pushing his body to the limits in this heat? This kid was a beast and I'm proud to have trained with him. Rock Steady.

Who would’ve known that after 6 and a half years, Sam himself would come here once again to start Jet Lag S8

Imagine living there in ancient times when the shoreline ice never melted and contact with the outside world had never been established. You would have no reason to believe that the flat, featureless sheet of permanent ice wasn’t just the literal edge of the world, like walking off into it would be equivalent to rocketing beyond the edge of the universe into black nothingness on a spacecraft.

One thing about Barrow that will never go down in history books is a Mexican food restaurant called Pepe’s that burned down in 2013. The owner was Fran Tate who founded the place in 1978 when Barrow was even more ancient and still didn’t have conventional means of electricity and running water. She grew up dirt poor in rural Washington, had worked hard since childhood, numerous failed marriages, and never knew a life without constant toil for endless hours every day. She endured brutal winters, endless business debt collectors, having to worry about a warm place to live and sleep, unreliable employees, having to receive food on planes that might not be fresh, storage of the food, yet operated a homey, comfortable place to enjoy decent Tex-Mex. No alcohol and not as good as you’d get in California or Texas, but it worked and she did it for some 35 years never striking it rich. A great American hero and entrepreneur in my book!

Why keep the frozen food in freezers lol just put it on shelves outside.

Back in 2020, This is still one of my favorite, and I thing best videos on all YouTube! Cheers from Japan!

The oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the New World is Point Hope Alaska, called Tikigaq in the local language. It has been a town for 15,000 years. Barrow is slightly younger, but only slightly.

> "completely self sustaining city" > must import all its food K.

If it's so cold why not keep the frozen pizza outside where it's freezing that Will half the price

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