49 Voices: Rex Koenig in Anchorage

This week we’re hearing from Rex Koenig in Anchorage. Koenig is originally from Nome, but he moved to the Mountain View neighborhood in the 80s.
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Rex: It was nice back in the 80’s, nobody around. Less crime, nobody died. Now it’s like totally different.
When I used to live here, at 12, 1 or 2 in the morning you don’t hear anything. Now it’s like *makes shooting sounds*. Not every night, every now and then you hear shots fired. It’s just h