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Author: Stephen H. Provost Publisher: ISBN: 9781949971422 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Fresno Growing Up" is the first book to tell the story of Fresno during the times we remember, when the city was growing up and so were we. From Al Radka to Christmas Tree Lane, from Harpain's Dairy to Fresno State, Stephen H. Provost surveys the businesses, malls, restaurants, movie houses, personalities, athletes, musicians, and more that made Fresno fun. This new edition includes added and updated information on Fresno in the postwar era, along with, more than 80 additional images. It's a glorious look at Fresno's past and the times we shared.
Author: Stephen H. Provost Publisher: ISBN: 9781949971422 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Fresno Growing Up" is the first book to tell the story of Fresno during the times we remember, when the city was growing up and so were we. From Al Radka to Christmas Tree Lane, from Harpain's Dairy to Fresno State, Stephen H. Provost surveys the businesses, malls, restaurants, movie houses, personalities, athletes, musicians, and more that made Fresno fun. This new edition includes added and updated information on Fresno in the postwar era, along with, more than 80 additional images. It's a glorious look at Fresno's past and the times we shared.
Author: Stephen D. Gutierrez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 128
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Fiction. Latin American Studies. "If you read one book of stories this year, make it this one. LIVE FROM FRESNO Y LOS kicks out the jams, and takes no prisoners. Enjoy, and tell a friend"--Virgil Suarez. "Stunning. Really, a lovely and loving collection of stories, nicely balanced between the vernacular and the literarily eloquent"--Lamar Herrin. "There is an ineradicable sweetness to these stories, accompanied by the crisp and happy bemusement of a genuine voice--the sound of one person speaking directly to another, and not from the head, but from that most mysterious of mouths, the human heart"--Jim Krusoe.
Author: Stephen H. Provost Publisher: Century Cities Publishing ISBN: 9781949971248 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Do you remember Al Radka and Hopalong Cassidy? When Fresno State's basketball team filled Selland Arena and won the NIT? When Fulton was a mall and Manchester Center was a fig orchard? Whether you answered, "I didn't know that," or whether you just want to be reminded, you'll find it all in "Fresno Century." It's part of the Century Cities series, which was created to celebrate and preserve the history of midsized and smaller American cities during the 20th century.In Fresno Century, the author of "Fresno Growing Up" presents new anecdotes, never-before-seen and historic photographs, and new details of familiar stories you thought you knew, all in an easy-to-read timeline format.Fresno was founded back in 1872 around a new railway station and grew to became, as of this writing, the fifth-largest city in California, with more than half a million people. It's home to a diverse array of cultures, from Armenian to Hmong to Basque Americans, the urban centerpiece of the state's agricultural heartland.The city's proximity to Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia national parks, along with its location roughly halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, has made it a central player in California history. It has produced Olympic champions, baseball legends, major celebrities, and much of the nation's food.The county that shares its name is the nation's leader in agriculture, and not just for its raisins and wine grapes, for which it has long been known. Almonds, milk, citrus, oranges, figs, cotton, garlic, tomatoes, and pistachios are or have been big there at one time or another.The pioneer years of the 19th century boom and recent developments in the new millennium hold many tales of their own. Fresno Century tells the story of what happened in between.
Author: Gary Soto Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 0307817431 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.
Author: Gary Soto Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 0440210240 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold," the taps of his shoes and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles," his worn tennies smelling of "summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall." The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things.
Author: Mark Arax Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101910194 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 578
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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Author: Craig Harline Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 080287150X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 281
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When Craig Harline set off on his two-year Mormon mission to Belgium in the 1970s, he had big dreams of doing miracles, converting the masses, and coming home a hero. What he found instead was a lot of rain and cold, one-sentence conversations with irritated people, and silly squabbles with fellow missionaries-- a range of experiences that nothing, including his own missionary training, had prepared him for. He also found a wealth of friendships with fellow Mormons as well as unconverted locals and, along the way, gained insights that would shape the rest of his life.
Author: Stephen H. Provost
Author: Stephen H. Provost
Author: Stephen D. Gutierrez
Author: William Saroyan
Author: Stephen H. Provost
Author: Gary Soto
Author: Gary Soto
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