Brushkana Creek cabin with a view
Saw this lovely cabin on the creek (almost in the creek) across from the campground. Last summer it was about 30 feet from the creek’s edge, but savage flooding last fall eroded the bank...
Denali Highway–Hiking Brushkana Creek Trail to old Alaska Road Commission cabin
We drove the Denali Highway Thursday. Friday and Saturday–stayed at Brushkana campground on Friday night. The campground, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management, is a lovely little facility on the banks of Brushkana...
Kantishna’s Fannie Quigley, larger-than-life frontier woman
Quigley cabin as it looked in the 1990s Fannie Quigley was a larger-than-life Alaskan whose story has probably been embellished over the years. A 1990 Alaska Magazine article related that Fannie “was quick on...
North American AT6 Texans at Fairbanks air show
There were four North American AT6 Texan trainers at the Centennial Air Show Celebration on July 4th. The AT6 was an advanced trainer aircraft used by the United States, Great Britain, and members of...
Rare 1931 American Pilgrim 100B aircraft at Fairbanks
We had a Centennial Air Show Celebration here in Fairbanks Today, The show was in honor of 100 years of aviation in Alaska. We went out to the airport to look at the planes....
Old Dodge M-series 4×4 somwhere in the hills around Fairbanks
Here is is a photo of an old Dodge M-series truck. Some one told me about it few weeks ago and I asked the owner if I could photograph it. He said yes, but...
1940s Quick-Way Truck Shovel crane on Brockway Chassis near Ester
Here is a 1940s era Quick-Way truck-mounted crane sitting on a Brockway chassis. It is located along the Parks Highway near Ester. According to an article on the ConstructionEquipment.Com website, in 1922, a prototype truck-mounted...
Old Federal Building in Fairbanks anchors downtown district
Old Federal Building in Fairbanks in about 2000 The book “Ghosts of the Gold Rush” recounts that many long-time Fairbanks residents believed the reason Fairbanks prospered and Chena City (at the confluence of the...
More old buildings in Talkeetna
Here are a few more photos of old buildings in Talkeetna. See my previous post for a short history of the town. At the corner of First and C Street. Between First and Main ...
Historic Talkeetna in May, before the summer hordes arrive
Talkeetna Roadhouse, built between 1914 and 1917 Here are some photos of historic buildings in Talkeetna. We have been stopping there as part of our job for the past three months, and had a...
