Pam and David Pingree were interviewed by Anjuli Grantham in Quartz Creek Lodge, Alaska, on June 20, 2015, as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. Pam was born in Kodiak in 1959. Her father was a mechanic and had come to Kodiak through his service in the Navy. She describes the appeal of the area as a wild west, and a hard-working, drinking man’s town. David was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and came to Alaska in 1980 as part of the US Coast Guard. He describes how he fell in love with the remoteness of the area and the hunting and fishing lifestyle it enabled. Pam recalls moving to the west side in 1981 to work in the office of Kodiak Alaskan Seafoods Incorporated, the cannery of the fishermen’s co-op. She describes Uganik and the operations of the cannery, and the impact that a death from botulism in the canned goods had on the industry. David talks about the many local fishing boats he worked on after he left the Coast Guard. They describe how they became the watchmen for the bankrupt cannery, the locals in the area or working for the cannery, the many changing hands of ownership, and the impact of its closure. They describe how they built Quartz Creek Lodge and the activities they engage in at the Lodge.