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27 unusual facts about Fresno


Atnaf Harris

Atnaf DeShawn Harris (born February 27, 1979 in Fresno, California) is an arena football wide receiver for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League.

Bill Drake

It was later at KYNO in Fresno, California that he met Gene Chenault, who became his business partner.

Bob McCaffrey

McCaffrey joined his father-in-law, John Bonadelle, and became real estate developer in Fresno, California; he now heads The McCaffrey Group and is on the Board of Directors of the Building Industry Association of Fresno/Madera Counties, having previously served as Chairman of the Board.

DeShawn Stevenson

Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California, and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA Draft.

Duane Carter

Carter started racing midgets at the 1/5 mile dirt track in the west side of Fresno while attending Fresno State University.

Eric Hardgrave

Hardgrave played first base for Bullard High School in Fresno, California.

European Quarter

It may also refer to any quarter of a city that has considerable European influence, such as the community in Fresno, California.

Feminist art movement in the United States

She taught 15 students who formed the Feminist Art Program, which rented and refurbished an off-campus studio at 1275 Maple Avenue in downtown Fresno where they had reading groups, collaborated on art and held discussion groups about their life experiences which then influenced their art.

Fresno Adult School

Fresno Adult School, formerly Fresno Tech, is a public school located at the Cesar E. Chavez Adult Education Center operated by the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) in Fresno, California.

Fresno, Texas

Fresno physically borders Houston to the north, the suburban Fort Bend County cities of Missouri City to the west and northwest, Arcola to the south and southwest and Pearland to the east and Rosharon to the southeast.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Islam in Peru

The Latin American Muslim Unity (LAMU) organization, based in Fresno, California, United States, has drawn up a proposal for the first Islamic orphanage in Peru, although it has not yet materialized.

Jon R. Cavaiani

Though initially classified 4F, due in part to a severe allergy to bee stings, Cavaiani joined the Army from Fresno, California, shortly before becoming a naturalized citizen in 1968.

Keshon Johnson

Johnson was born Keshon Lorenzo Johnson on July 17, 1970 in Fresno, California.

Lone Star Elementary School

Lone Star Elementary School is (located at 2617 S. Fowler Avenue, Fresno, California 93725 between Jensen Ave. and North Ave) is a school, that is part of the Sanger Unified School District, with Grades K-6 (formally K-8).

Margie Wright

Wright has become a popular figure in the Fresno community and was inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

May Song Vang

In 2012, she attended the official dedication of Vang Pao Elementary School in the southeast section of Fresno, California.

Meg Oliver

From 2001 to 2004, Oliver served as weekday anchor at KGPE-TV in Fresno, California.

Quincy Pondexter

He played high school basketball in Fresno, California at San Joaquin Memorial High School where his father Roscoe and uncle Clifton Pondexter were All-American basketball players themselves and continued their basketball skills at the professional levels.

Ray Fair

Ray Clarence Fair (born October 4, 1942 in Fresno, California) is the John M. Musser Professor of Economics at Yale University.

Richard Hovannisian

Richard Hovannisian married Vartiter in 1957 at the Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Fresno.

Sidney Craig

Sidney Craig was a one-time child tap dancer who graduated from California State University, Fresno with a major in business and psychology.

Steven W. Mosher

Mosher was born in 1949, to working class parents in Scotia, California, and spent his early years in Fresno, California.

Tommy Bond

Bond published his autobiography, Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang/The Little Rascals, with the help of Fresno teacher, film historian and co-author Ron Genini, in 1994.

Top Ten Professional Women

The Top Ten Professional Women Awards are presented every October by the Marjaree Mason Center of Fresno, California.

Victor Gruen

He is also noted for his urban revitalisation proposals, described in his writings and applied in master plans such as for Fort Worth, Texas (1955), Kalamazoo, Michigan (1958) and Fresno, California (1965).

Willie Farley

In 1997 Farley transferred to Fresno State where he had to sit out a semester before becoming eligible to play.


1992 NCAA Division I-A football season

Possibly in a show of how weak the conference was, Nevada went 5-1 in conference, winning the Big West championship and representing the conference in the 1992 Las Vegas Bowl (formerly the California Bowl held in Fresno, California).

611 Place

In the 1997 film Con Air the building be seen from an aerial view and street view as a dead body falls from an aircraft and lands on a car near the base of the building in what is supposed to be the city of Fresno, California.

Allen's chipmunk

The main populations are found in California, specifically the humid forests of the mountainous areas of Northern California including the Northern Coastal Range of California, the Trinity Alps, the Siskiyou Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada as far south as Fresno.

Aram Gharabekian

He also led the Ukrainian National Symphony, the Ukrainian State Opera and Ballet, the West Ukrainian Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra and Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site is located within the Clear Creek Management Area near Fresno County eighteen miles northwest of Coalinga, California.

Azteca Theater

The Azteca Theater (Teatro Azteca) is an historic Art Deco theater in the Chinatown district of Fresno, California, built by Gustavo Acosta in 1948.

Battle for the Bone

Led by Ryan Moats who rushed for 236 yards and 4 touchdowns, La Tech went on to notch their first ever victory over Fresno State 28–21.

Bulldog Stadium

Former Fresno State coach Pat Hill had on several occasions argued for the merits of stadium expansion; however, no plans are in the works for such an expansion.

Carl Panzram

He served time in prisons in Fresno, California; Rusk, Texas; The Dalles, Oregon; Harrison, Idaho; Butte City Montana; Montana State reform School, Miles City Montana; State Prison Montana {"Jeff Davis" #3194}; Oregon {"Jefferson Baldwin" #7390}; Bridgeport Connecticut {John O'Leary}; New York's Sing Sing {"Jeff Baldwin" #75182}; Clinton Correctional Facility New York {"John O'Leary"}; Washington D.C. (#33379); and Leavenworth, Kansas {Carl Panzram #31614}.

David Carr

Former Fresno State football player Robbie Rouse (a junior in 2011) was the last player allowed to wear the number.

Donald R. McMonagle

McMonagle received a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University-Fresno in 1985 and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 2003.

Douglas Blayney

Douglas Blayney was born and raised in Fowler, California a small, rural farming community in Fresno Valley.

Fresno Bee Building

The Fresno Bee building sat vacant until April 13, 2012, when the Community Media Access Collaborative (CMAC) located its public, educational, and government access television station on the second floor.

Fresno City College

Cameron Worrell Free-Agent Defensive Back has played for the Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins & New York Jets, is currently the Defensive backs coach for the Fresno City College Football team.

Fresno County Library System

The Fresno County Public Library was founded in 1910 and housed at that time in the Fresno City Library building, which had been constructed in 1904 with a $30,000 donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Fresno State–San Diego State football rivalry

"The oil can likely came from a time when Aztec and Bulldog fans traveled to football games between the two schools via the old, twisting, precipitous Grapevine section of Highway 99 over Tejon Pass," said Jacquelyn K. Glasener, executive director of the Fresno State Alumni Association.

George Manross

For example, his findings that predicted an overwhelming victory for Chuck Reed was scoffed at by the media until Reed defeated his opponent, Cindy Chavez, by 19 points to become the mayor of San Jose; and, a $1.7 billion sales tax measure dedicated to public transportation and public transit in Fresno County, which was driven by the "findings" from two SRI voter surveys, received 77.7% voter support.

Heilind Electronics

Heilind opened its first large-scale, automated distribution center in Highland Heights, Ohio (Cleveland) in 1998 and its second in Visalia, California (Fresno) in 2002 and today processes 80% of its shipments out of these two facilities.

John W. North

He opened a law office in Fresno, built a house and started a farm in nearby small community of Oleander.

KFSN-TV

KFSN's studios are located in downtown Fresno, and its transmitter is based in Meadow Lakes, California.

KQPW

KLBN, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to Fresno, California, United States, which used the call sign KQPW from December 1990 to October 1993

Lancaster Catholic High School

Gary P. Gilroy, 1976, composer, arranger, music publisher, California State University Fresno Director of Bands

Mac Foster

After a military discharge, Foster turned pro, becoming the third Fresno boxer of note (Young Corbett III was a world welterweight champion and Wayne Thornton rose through the rankings to become a number one heavyweight contender in 1970.

Minarets and Western Railway

The railway was owned by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company and was built the same year the lumber company was incorporated so that it could haul timber from the forest near Minarets (northeast of Friant) to its sawmill at Pinedale (near Fresno).

National Quartet Convention

These new events were the Great Western Convention in Fresno, California; the Canadian Quartet Convention in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada; and the Central Canada Gospel Quartet Convention in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Procopio

Procopio was paroled in June 1877 and returned to banditry, leading a gang in raids near Fresno, Grangeville and Caliente.

Solar thermal enhanced oil recovery

In October 2011, Chevron Corp. and BrightSource Energy revealed a 29-megawatt solar- to-steam facility at the Coalinga Oil Field in Fresno County, California.

Sunnyside Country Club

The existing clubhouse is built in the mid-century modern style an contains a large fireplace sculpture by Fresno artist Stan Bitters.

The Standard Hour

A 1943 brochure shows that the programs were carried on KPO in San Francisco, KFI in Los Angeles, KMJ in Fresno, KGW in Portland, Oregon, KOMO in Seattle, Washington, and KHQ in Spokane, Washington.

Watsonville Riots

Filipino laborers frequenting pool halls or attending street fairs in Stockton, Dinuba, Exeter, and Fresno risked being attacked by nativists threatened by the swelling labor pool as well as the Filipino's presumed predatory sexual nature.

Wayne Jacobsen

Jacobsen began a full-time ministry in 1975 as an Associate Pastor at Valley Christian Center in Fresno, CA—a Foursquare church.

WHNS

Its first slogan was "It's Your Station", which was changed to "We're Your Station" (also used on then sister-stations KMPH-TV in Fresno and KPTM in Omaha).