Tagged: Fairbanks

Found Art – Snowy Fences

Fences are like trees in some ways. Their character changes with the seasons. These photos are of the fence surrounding the community garden plots near out house. Just for your information, the fence is...

West Coast Grocery warehouse and a ghost of Christmas past

  West Coast Grocery warehouse as it looked in early winter, 2011 The unpretentious metal-sided building at 318 Driveway Street (across from the News-Miner building) looks similar to the NC Company warehouse at the...

Desjardin-Stroecker Farm–a remnant of early Fairbanks agriculture

Desjardin-Stroecker farm as it looked in 1995 The Desjardin-Stroecker Farm, located at 2.5 mile on Farmer’s Loop Road, is one of the few remaining signs of Fairbanks, Alaska’s agricultural past (besides Creamer’s Dairy, which...

Valdez-Fairbank Trail, a lifeline for early Interior Alaskans

Stage operated by Ed S. Orr between Fairbanks and Valdez The Ed S. Orr Stage Co., also called the Fairbanks-Valdez Stage Co., was the most successful of several stage lines that operated along the...

Raven’s Brew tops Starbucks in Fairbanks

  or maybe it should be “Raven’s Crew tops Starbucks.” Item – Ravens in Fairbanks, after a busy day of dumpster diving and food recycling, used to fly home to their roosts, which were...

All that’s left of Eldorado – Chatanika Valley, Alaska

Eldorado Creek building as it looked in 1994 The Tanana Valley Railroad (which operated from 1905 to 1930 under various names and owners) used to run 35 miles from Fairbanks to Chatanika through country...

If Vincent Van Gogh was a Paperboy

“The Starry Night” by  Vincent Van Gogh – 1889 Delivering newspapers at 40 degrees below zero (part 1)  The temperatures here is Fairbanks are dipping into the negative numbers at night, which reminds me...