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Talkeetna Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Cotton Hoodie - White Logo

Talkeetna Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Cotton Hoodie - White Logo

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The Talkeetna hoodie, for the town that is where every Denali climber signs in. A medium-heavy cotton pullover with the Talkeetna vintage retro logo across the chest in white, made to be worn from the first cold morning to the last.

If you are buying one Talkeetna piece, this is the one that gets worn most: warm enough for the sideline, the dock and the drive home, and the hoodie that gets borrowed and never returned. It is the gift for the one who moved away from Talkeetna, and the one that arrives in time for the holidays if you order now.

This pullover hoodie pairs medium-heavy fleece with a regular, true-to-size adult fit. A three-panel hood, ribbed cuffs and waistband, and double-needle stitching at key seams keep it sturdy; the tear-away label keeps it comfortable. Made from 80% combed ring-spun cotton / 20% polyester; heather colors may be cotton–poly blends.

A trading post went up in 1896 where the Susitna, Chulitna and Talkeetna rivers meet, the Susitna gold rush boomed in 1910, and the Alaska Railroad auctioned eighty lots in 1919 to make a town. The Roadhouse has served since 1917, Nagley’s since 1921 and the Fairview Inn since 1923, all of them log, all on the National Register.

From the 1940s Don Sheldon and Cliff Hudson invented glacier landings here, and every climber attempting Denali, 20,310 feet and about 115 miles away, registers at the Talkeetna ranger station before flying to the mountain. The town has no city government, which is why its mayor has been a cat. The staging post below Denali is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — TALKEETNA AK HEAVY COTTON HOODIE

Town: Talkeetna, Alaska

Founded: Trading post 1896; townsite 1919

Known for: Staging point for Denali expeditions; the bush pilots who invented glacier landings; the 1917 Roadhouse; a cat for mayor

Art: Talkeetna vintage retro logo, white (printed)

Blank: Unisex pullover hoodie, medium-heavy fleece, regular fit

Fabric: 80% combed ring-spun cotton / 20% polyester; heathers cotton–poly

Details: Three-panel hood, ribbed cuffs and waistband, tear-away label

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

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Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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The railroad made it a town: in 1915 the Alaska Railroad’s builders chose Talkeetna as a district headquarters, and by 1916 there was a post office, a sawmill, and even a cigar shop on the new Main Street. In 1919 the surveyors auctioned eighty lots, and the town that stands today took shape — a downtown of log buildings now listed, in its entirety, on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1917 roadhouse still serving breakfast at communal tables, the 1921 general store, the 1923 frontier inn, and the 1936–37 territorial schoolhouse that houses the town museum. Trains still stop; upriver, the flag-stop line still picks up anyone who waves.

The geography keeps the town honest: fourteen miles up a spur road off the Parks Highway, two and a half hours north of Anchorage, with the Talkeetna Mountains to the east and the river confluence at the end of Main Street. Summer brings near-endless daylight and salmon in the Susitna; winter drops to forty below, and the aurora works the sky from September to March.

Why People Visit Talkeetna Alaska

Talkeetna offers the three-rivers confluence the Dena'ina have gathered at for centuries, the National Register downtown with the Roadhouse and Nagley's and the Fairview Inn intact and operating, the Walter Harper Ranger Station that every Denali climber walks through, the long view of the highest mountain in North America rising at the head of the Susitna Valley, the Alaska Railroad Denali Star at the depot daily, and the small-plane glacier-landing tradition that opened the mountain to the world. It is a small town at the end of a fourteen-mile spur road, and almost every climber on Denali has stood on its one main street first. Below Denali since 1896.

Talkeetna Alaska Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring Alaska distressed bear motif