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Catherine Fenton is interviewed by Margaret Van Cleve on April 25, 1994 in Fairbanks, Alaska [sound recording].
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Catherine Fenton is interviewed by Margaret Van Cleve on April 25, 1994 in Fairbanks, Alaska [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog.
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Recorded on April 25, 1994 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Catherine Fenton is interviewed by Margaret Van Cleve on April 25, 1994 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fenton arrived in Fairbanks in 1940, where her husband Richard "Mac" Fenton was working as a pharmacist at McIntosh and Kubon Drugstore. Catherine talks about working as a telephone operator at the Northern Commercial Company,which supplied phone service to downtown Fairbanks. After WWII, the Fentons opened Fenton's Pharmacy across from the Co-op on Second Avenue. They moved their business to the Northward Building in 1952. Fenton talks about the effects of the 1967 flood on business, and tells anecdotes about the flood and other incidents related to their many years of business.
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