My Home Town Fairbanks Alaska

Images from the late 1950s include: title screen “My Home Town Fairbanks Alaska”; panoramic view of downtown Fairbanks, likely shot from the top of the Polaris Building, including views of the Cushman Street bridge, Samson’s Hardware, The Big I building, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, St. Joseph’s Hospital, the coal bunkers, Slaterville homes, Griffin Park ball field and ice rink, the Wendell Street bridge, downtown Fairbanks homes, the Northward Building, downtown Fairbanks looking south, the Wendell Street bridge again, and the buildings and power plant at Ladd Air Force Base (now Fort Wainwright); Fairbanks homes; Travelers Inn sign and building; views of downtown from the Cushman Street bridge; Fairbanks Golf and Country Club building, golfers, and archers with bows and arrows on the golf course; downtown Fairbanks house in flames, Fairbanks Fire Department fighting the fire, and many people watching the large blaze; large building; person in chef hat; children playing with baby moose; University of Alaska sign and buildings, including the Geophysical Institute, Constitution Hall, campus housing, Wickersham Hall, the Brooks Building, Harriet Hess Hall, the Eielson Memorial Building, the Patty Gym, and others; more Fairbanks homes and yards; the Polaris Building and Northward Building in downtown Fairbanks; Island Homes sign, homes and gardens; sign for Vegetable Variety Trials (experimental gardens at the university?), and garden with cabbages, kohlrabi, rutabagas, corn, squash, lettuce, zucchini, peas and grains; farm fields, people harvesting potatoes, men posing next to bags of potatoes, man driving tractor in farm field; summer parade in downtown Fairbanks with several marching bands; and scenes of downhill skiing. (Color/Silent/16mm) This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-11933 from the Willsey-Mendenhall collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives. The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.