Mendenhall Valley, Juneau Mendenhall Valley, Juneau The Mendenhall Valley (historically Mendenhall, colloquially The Valley) is the drainage area of the Mendenhall River in the U.S. state of Alaska. The valley contains a series of neighborhoods, comprising the largest populated place within the corporate limits of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska's capital. The valley was formed by Mendenhall Glacier over the course of roughly three thousand years. It was named for physicist and meteorologist Thomas Corwin Mendenhall. The Mendenhall Valley begins ten miles from the downtown area, at the intersection of Egan Drive and Glacier Highway, and ends ten miles farther west
Gold Rush Daze gold found in the hills, to which the attendant steals the prospector's car to get back in on the gold rush and hands the prospector the gas station. Included in the film is a short, farcical musical number, “My Sweetheart Needs Gold for Her Teeth." Gold Rush Daze Gold Rush Daze is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 25, 1939. A prospector drives to the hills to dig for gold. A local gas station attendant goes on to explain that the prospector is wasting his time: since 1849, he had been chasing gold strikes around the world and