This photo is from Calisphere, and was originally from the Valley Times newspaper, which is part of the huge digitized photo collection of the LA Public Library. It shows singer Phyllis Moriarty and was dated January 4, 1950. Moriarty, a Burbank singer, “flew to Alaska today to collect a $10 bet…She had to pose for a picture at Hollywood and Vine – in fur parka and mukluks – to win it. She was in Alaska last winter…a discussion among a group of her Alaskan friends over clothes styles of the frozen north led to the wager. She returned to her home…bundled up and stood on the corner and while an amused crowd watched, had her picture taken. She took the picture with her when she left Lockheed Air Terminal for Fairbanks via United Airlines yesterday afternoon.”

It’s a great story to start with, but of course I wondered: she was a singer who went to Fairbanks – did she ever sing with, or perform on the same bill, as Johnny Warren? Lo and behold…. nearly two years later in October 1951, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported