Fairbanks history in a hardware store

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Once upon a time, back when Fairbanks first began, so did a certain hardware store - the Fairbanks icon Samson Hardware.

Samson Hardware was an iconic Fairbanks sight at 100 North Turner street, where historic photos show it facing its competition the NC Company directly across the river. “Johnny Allbright was the owner at the time,” Pederson recalled, “and there are a lot of stories of us selling pumps and everything with water flowing through the store. At the time it was an old wood structure, and they ended up kind of entombing the original building in a concrete building just because of the flood. The original wood structure got hit pretty hard by the flood.”

When the City of Fairbanks decided to build the Barnette Street Bridge over the Chena River, the little hardware store was standing in the way. The city invoked Eminent Domain law to force a sale. Samson Hardware closed its doors on Turner Street in December of 2008, and opened again in its current location on Philips Field Road in November of 2009.

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