Exploring Downtown Fairbanks, Alaska | Winter 

Welcome to Fairbanks 🥴

Well I mean. Not even a few miles from here is the huge commercial area with a Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, 2 McDonalds withing a mile of each other, Sonic near where the old Chiles was. I mean like, yeah but to say there aren't megacorps in the city is just wrong lol.

@@thescotslair Mostly in the small towns in the south I mean. I know Anchorage and Fairbanks got raided by big corps like the rest of the country............and world. But places like Ketchikan, Kodiak, Wrangell, and a few others were spared. Mostly because of the geography and population. But small business still have a chance.

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There’s a lot of those here

@@architecturedraft5559 yep unfortunately. Can’t handle their alcohol and go fall in a snow bank or the river and die 😞

@@user-gz4zv5bv9r It was like im in a freaking movie but it was life

Have fun!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Do you like going to UAF? I recently got accepted and have been wondering what my next move should be

It really is!

Hello there!

It’s not really worth a trip. Trust me. I lived there for three years. Just left there Feb 2021. Anchorage is much better, more to do like glacier hiking and all that. Fairbanks is okay to visit for a few days, but nothing really in the city itself worthwhile. Trust me. They have neat things like summer solstice midnight sun run because the sun doesn’t set, so people run through parts of town in costumes like a marathon, some decent eateries, and from what I hear University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is a decent school. They also have “The Santa House” where you can go mail a Christmas card literally from the North Pole (city of North Pole) just a few miles or so from Fairbanks. But it’s just a typical city.

Why? Elaborate?

@Earthly Color Brown Cold, long winters, not a whole lot to do, drugs are a big problem for a lot of peo0le, not many lucrative job opportunities, highest suicide rate per capita of any other state in the country

@@earthlycolorbrown6246 I did like growing up there but moving out of Alaska was the best decision I ever made

@@GUFFmaster97sounds like every other town in Oregon

Glad you enjoyed!

I was born in Ca and taught school in South Central Los Angeles. I live in Fairbanks now and love the blue skies and sunny days. See my youtube channel for a couple of videos

We just deal with it, I guess

Shit of I was in San Diego I would die of heat stroke within 45 minutes, goes both ways bro 😂😂

Fairbanksans. Born and raised here. I remember walking to school at -50. Its 20 plus here now though. That's how much the temp changes.

I was there 73/77 while the pipeline was being built. It was basically a gold rush of oil workers from texas and Oklahoma. Fairbanks (2nd ave. area) was full of prostitutes. Savoy bar and one topless bar I don't recall the name, it may have been the French Quarter. There was a bar just north and just outside of city limits called the "Bear Affair" where strippers danced.

Glad you like them!

And cushman should rhyme with cushion lol

Glad it was helpful!

I live here

@@ak0829 great

@Tarar Support damn that was fast

I guess it’s pretty obvious seeing my username

I live there

I went to UAF in the 70's and 80's. Downtown had more stuff going on back then than it does now. There was a Nordstrom, JC Penney, and a lot more bars and shops. Then everything started moving to Airport Way and the Bentley Mall area.

@@fixpacifica I was there in the early 2000s, Denny's was the only place to go after 9

@@LastOneLeft99 Fairbanks didn't have a Denny's when I was there. Shakey's Pizza was the only chain restaurant that I can remember, until McDonald's opened up. When McDonald's opened, it was headline news and treated like the biggest thing that ever happened in the history of Fairbanks.

@@fixpacifica When I was there it could take 45 minutes to get a table at Denny's. A friends dad owned some businesses in Anchorage and told him he should start a place right near UAF targeted at students that was 24/7 and a bit cooler then Denny's, he was looking into it. Then we all left UAF and last I heard still almost nowhere else to go after 9

Does shakey pizza still in business in Fairbanks ??id be very shocked if they do because shakey pizza is one of my favorite pizza to munch for years but sadly they shrunk to fewer in the states and it’s hard to find that place anywhere

Thanks for subbing!😊

I knew Frank minano. He was a good dude

Thank you

the snow gods must be hibernating

What kind of job are you looking in to. I’m thinking about the same thing

@@zeporahphillipdaniels7766 send me your instagram or snap we can talk on there

3nights should be plentiful.

yes spooky

single digits, cold for you, okay for me

come visit first my friend

@@NuttyNu good call

Ay bro you know where i can get a job up in Fairbanks or anchorage

@@flattommytoad1611 yo I got you

@@Mrmakedatmoney you know a place?

Where are the hotspots? Traveling to Fairbanks spring next year :))

Not yet, would love too

@@NuttyNu nice 👍

Yes. Freezy

@@NuttyNu stay warm Nu

No our Walmart does not sell ammo anymore.

Here for work

@@NuttyNu If you're an operator or mechanic DOT is hiring.

@@NuttyNu yeah, what work?

@@grizzlyaddams3606 video

It gets pretty warm in Fairbanks in the summer. The snow is usually gone by early May, and then it won't snow again until the end of September.

@@fixpacifica Yup! Lived there for 20 years.👍🏾

@fixpacifica snow on the ground in may and September is pretty bizarre to most of us in the states. Those are summer months.

Video production

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Fairbanks is ghetto as hell

Its a boring town, I just came back from they're

@@HELLARARE4ever its not bad if you hunt,but yes the town itself is a dump

@@HELLARARE4ever what is there to do out there I’m going on thanksgiving

@@ramcharger9449 what makes it ghetto