

Suttell is a member of Alaska’s Historical Archives Team, a small and passionate group of current and former employees who meet twice each month to sort through decades of old photographs and artifacts. We were competing against giants.” The Archivists ”We definitely stood out, and that was part of our legacy. “We’ve been quirky throughout our history,” says Suttell. One of the era’s most famous promotional gimmicks was “the stilt lady” – a woman clad in the gay 90s uniform, perched on stilts tall enough to allow her to knock on airplane windows and wave at boarded passengers. He recalls airline president Charlie Willis from time to time dressing up in the gay 90s uniform and playing the banjo onboard to entertain passengers. Suttell began his four-decade career at Alaska Airlines in 1971, during the height of the Golden Nugget era.
