ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Time at the Flying Dutchman Pastry Shop in Anchorage ticks by. Customers pop in and out picking up their favorite treats.
A clock on the wall keeps watch. The face no longer tells accurate time. It’s frozen at 5:36 p.m. That’s when it fell off the wall on March 27, 1964.
Frieda Koper is the owner of the Flying Dutchman. Her father, Ben, was a cook at the Hofbrau Restaurant in downtown Anchorage in 1964. The clock hung in the Hofbrau until the Good Friday Earthquake shook Alaska…