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The Chena Pump House, also known just as the Pump House Restaurant, is a restaurant at 796 Chena Pump Road in Fairbanks, Alaska. The restaurant is located in the shell of a 1933 pumping station established by the Fairbanks Exploration Company , Alaska's largest gold mining operator at the time.
Anna May Wong seated in her mother's lap, c. 1905 This is a duplicate copy of the Certificate of Identity issued to actress Anna May Wong. Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong (黃柳霜, Liu Tsong literally meaning "willow frost") on January 3, 1905, on Flower Street in Los Angeles, one block north of Chinatown, in an integrated community of Chinese, Irish, German and Japanese residents.
McGown was the first woman to win the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce distinguished-service award. [2] In 1953, territorial governor B. Frank Heintzleman issued a proclamation naming McGown Alaska's honorary hostess. [2] In 1971 the University of Alaska Fairbanks dedicated a music rehearsal hall in McGown's honor.
The Red Lantern, filmed during the 1918 flu pandemic, was the debut of Anna May Wong, who played a lantern bearer. [4] To meet the casting requirements which required 300 extras for the film, the Chinese American extras were paid $7.50 per day ($101.32 in 2015 dollars), which was $1.50 more than the other extras. [4]
In 1911, the Fairbanks Commercial Club, a group of businesses, created the slogan "Fairbanks, Alaska's Golden Heart." [ 68 ] The slogan remains the city's motto today. [ 69 ] In that year, Fairbanks boasted a population of more than 3,500 people, making it the largest city in Alaska.
Jay Ramras was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, the elder of two sons of Dan and Dorothy Ramras. [5] His father moved to Fairbanks from Brooklyn in 1947. He graduated from Lathrop High School in 1981, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in American History from the Syracuse University in 1984. [6] Ramras has been a lifelong resident of Fairbanks, with two ...
An "active search" effort was called off Thursday for a woman who disappeared under the ice of a frozen Anchorage, Alaska-area river last weekend while trying to save her dog, officials said.
Location of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.