2008 commercial for the Nanook Hockey Scramble, a fundraiser for the University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey team. Complete with an appearance by Jar Jar Binks. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory #fairbanks

Aug 18, 1981 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ad for art classes taught by Bob Ross "one of Fairbanks' most well-known artists." Ross spent 20 years in Air Force, mostly at Eielson AFB. Retired from Air Force in 1981. Joy of Painting began in 1983. #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #alaska

The first Kentucky Fried Chicken in Alaska opened in 1959, in Fairbanks at the Redwood Barbcue. The $1.75 opening deal would be about $18.50 now. The way it worked then, a restaurant would simply buy a license for the KFC product but not be a KFC store. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory

August 1973 aerial views of Fairbanks, from UAF to the Tanana River. Taken by the EPA in advance of pipeline work. A slightly different town than today. Via National Archives #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #Alaska

1/2 In 1958, students at UAF formed a Farthest North Confederate Detachment & celebrated Robert E Lee's birthday on campus, attended by a reported 400 students. Picture made the front page of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, above the fold. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory

Circa early 1960s Fairbanks at midnight postcard. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbanks #fairbankshistory #SummerSolstice

July 1984, the Pump House Restaurant and Saloon deck as seen from the Chena River. The former gold mine pump house opened as a restaurant in 1979. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory #fairbanks

2009-10 University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks hockey scoreboard intro, the infamous & wonderful space bear video. Polar bear chops a ship in half & bombs rival schools before destroying the planet. #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #alaska #fairbanks

Mid 1950s footage of Fairbanks from the 1968 German documentary Panamericana: Traumstrasse der Welt (Panamerican: Dream Road of the World), which is about the Pan-American Highway. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory #fairbanks

April 16, 1912, the front page for the Fairbanks Daily Times. The Titanic sank early April 15, news reached Alaska in time for the 16th editions. #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #alaska

Late 1980s commercial for Box Boy convenience store in Fairbanks, featuring Elvis and Crush apple soda. Via UAF's Alaska Film Archives. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory

Circa mid to late 2000s "Imaginary Nagging Wife" commercial for China 1 International Buffet of Fairbanks. The (presumably intentional) visible boom mic was a nice touch. #alaskahistory #Alaska #fairbankshistory

Aug 17, 1967, an amphibious Amphicar driven down a flooded street in Fairbanks. For a brief time in the 1960s, there were Amphicar dealers in Anchorage and Fairbanks. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory #amphicar

Circa 2010 rapping commercial for ColorTyme of Fairbanks. #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #alaska

Historians are trained to focus on important words and phrases, like "the smoldering ruins of the Dairy Queen." In case you've ever wondered why Fairbanks doesn't have any Dairy Queens now, one of them blew up in 1984. Other became the Oasis. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory

June 5, 2015 KTVF segment on lampreys--fish w/ toothy suckers--falling from sky in #Fairbanks, most notably into a Value Village parking lot. Crazy as story was, & it was picked up as far as the Washington Post, they were just dropped by birds. #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #alaska

Circa 1990-1992 rapping commercial for Tip Top Chevrolet dealership of Fairbanks. They obviously had just learned rap existed. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory

Circa 1990-93 Star Trek-themed commercial for Fairbanks' Tip Top Chevrolet dealership. "I'm picking up a signal from an alien dealership. They seem to be offering cars for less than cost . . . illogical." Acting is hard. #alaskahistory #fairbankshistory #alaska

Circa 2007-2008 commercial for the Kosmonaut Kafe of Fairbanks. Features footage from the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur. The cafe sold Russian items and declared bankruptcy in late 2008. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory

In 1974, a Fairbanks businessman bought an old dresser for $25. Under a false drawer bottom, he found a copy of Batman #1. Fairbanks resident Mike Wheat bought it for $300 in 1975 (1975 classified below) & sold it for $55,000 in 2010. #alaskahistory #alaska #fairbankshistory