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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.
In 1951, she was the subject of an article in Reader's Digest [5] and on April 22, 1953, she was featured on a broadcast of the biographical television show This Is Your Life with host Ralph Edwards. [6] Her TV appearance was included as part of the first broadcast of Fairbanks television station KFAR-TV in early 1955. [7]
The rapid economic growth in Fairbanks tapered off by the late 1950s, and by the end of 1957 there were about 1,000 vacancies in the Fairbanks area. [2] During the Fairbanks flood of 1967, downtown Fairbanks was flooded and the Polaris Building was evacuated. Water was five feet deep in Second Avenue. [4]
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.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Nguyen is the owner of Red Lantern restaurant in Surry Hills, Sydney (in which he partnered with his sister Pauline Nguyen) [4] [5] and Vietnam House restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. He is also the man behind the restaurant Fat Noodle situated in the Star Casino in Sydney, Botanic House in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens and Treasury Casino in ...
The Chamber calls Golden Days "Fairbanks' most co-operatively produced summer event." A rustic Alaskan vehicle rides in the Fairbanks Golden Days Parade, 1986. It is the largest summer event for tourists visiting Fairbanks and marks the height of the tourist season. Can Can Girls participate in Golden Days Parade, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1986.
About the time of the completion of the Alaska Railroad and the beginning of the dredging era in Fairbanks, Alaska's aviation industry began to take off. The first airplane flight in Alaska took place in Fairbanks on July 4, 1913, when a barnstormer flew from a field south of town. [104]