This image is looking due East oblique and you can see most of old Mt. View,  and housing on the newly renamed Elmendorf AFB with the establishment of the U.S. Air Force as a separate branch of service.

Most of the land in the central part of the image from the bluffs on both sides of Ship Creek was and is owned by the Alaska Railroad Corporation and  is leased to business.

 

This image is flown oblique to the West and covers most of the Alaska Railroad Yard and the built up part of downtown Anchorage well before the 1964 earthquake.

Main access is down C street at the left, across Ship Creek around the yard and up Government Hill.  Government Hill Elementary is seen just across the road from the Anchorage Curling rink (old Alaska Railroad social hall).  The school was two stories and was destroyed during the 1964 earthquake.

The CEA power plant is center left with the cooling pond along Ship Creek.  That is now the Ship Creek Industrial Center.

Added by Dick Morris:

These are photos from a CAA archive that I found online a few months ago. They came from the same place as the port shots with the shipboard temporary power plant that you described a while back.

I think 1958 is when they received them but they were taken several years before. Both were taken after the part of the round house burned and the turntable was removed. Note that the wooden water tower that the metal Government Water tower replaced in 1947/48 is still there.

When I passed through Anchorage in 1969 there was a concrete bunker in the bluff NW of the T intersection on the road from Government Hill to Anchorage..