1974 Fairbanks, Alaska

This home movie labeled, "Winter cold of '74 in Fairbanks," contains scenes from a quick drive through Fairbanks, Alaska. Locations include Airport Way driving past Lathrop High School, Cushman Street past City Hall and Immaculate Conception Church, Illinois Street past the 76 Station, and Third Street past the Pay 'N Save and Market Basket. Several sights have changed over the decades, but much remains the same (Color/Silent/Super 8mm film).

This sequence is an excerpt from AAF-10407 from the Wheelock Family 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.

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