Pioneer Park

Pioneer Park is a tourist attraction in Fairbanks, Alaska.  It's actually a park, you can walk around and see the sites.  It included a sternwheeler called the USS Nenana, an air museum, an art museum, a historical museum and cabins all over the place that are actual historic cabins.  The would have been destroyed, except that the city saved them for the museum, restored them and rented them out to business owners to sell their wares from Memorial day through Labor day (so we just missed it! Darn!!!).  But we were still able to go into the museum and see the signs on the buildings.

This is the train car that Warren G. Harding rode in to Alaska.

 The USS Nenana

 The Museum of Art

 The sign on this cabin says "Doctor Stearns, the first veterinarian in Fairbanks built this cabin for himself. Doc was an avid movie goer, and also operated a small farm."  The door and window are boarded up for the winter. 

 This cabin was taken from 4th Avenue, the "Red Light District".  A board fence at either end protected the innocent from views of debauchery.

 Home of Lee B. Loomis of Loomis Security.  Built in 1903 for $800.  Nose the leaded windows.

 Along one of the streets.  All of these buildings are stores.

 Constructed prior to 1906 as the Palace Hotel & Bath house.  The cost of a tub bath was 50 cents.

 Wolf-head mittens mads of the head-skin of 2 wolves.  The thumbs are the lower jaw fur, the eyes have been replaced with black beads but the nose is the real thing and the lining is made of wolf fur.

 An ore car

 A recipe for "Beer with a Kick"

 Stills...

 More cabins

 Outside the air museum

 We went inside, but they took cash only and we didn't happen to have any cash.