Download or read book Fresno Growing Up written by Stephen H. Provost and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Growing Up in Fresno written by William Saroyan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Live from Fresno Y Los written by Stephen D. Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Living Up The Street written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Growing up in California written by Bob Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summer Life written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fresno Century written by Stephen H. Provost and published by Century Cities Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How I Found Love and a Meaningful Life in Fresno written by Mike Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about how a working class kid from Fresno grow up to find love and a meaningful life. This story is about building a progressive movement that supports immigrant rights, social, economic and environmental justice. It is also about how Mike and Pam raised two wonderful daughters and were able to integrate work, family life and politics into a great life in this Central California community.
Download or read book Fresno s Architectural Past written by Patricia Jean Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exuberant personalities of 22 landmark buildings in downtown Fresno are captured in watercolor portraits and brief explanations of each structure's significance in this architectural survey. Covering well-known properties in all stages of repair, this collection includes images of the Hotel Californian, the Liberty Theater, the Meux Home, the Pacific Southwest Building, the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, and Warnors Theater. Including a glossary of architectural terms and a bibliography, this nostalgic look at the historic past and current rebirth of central Fresno pays stirring homage to the area's unique architectural heritage.
Download or read book The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy written by Gary Soto and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicano writer presents forty-eight short essays and memoir pieces set in his hometown of Fresno, California, and in the San Francisco Bay area.
Download or read book Freaky in Fresno written by Laurie Boyle Crompton and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two estranged cousins---geeky horror movie fanatic Ricki and makeup guru Lana---accidentally switch bodies for a fateful summer road trip in Freaky in Fresno by author Laurie Boyle Crompton.
Download or read book Chato s Kitchen written by Gary Soto and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chato decides to throw a "pachanga" for his friend Novio Boy, who has never had a birthday party, but when it is time to party, Novio Boy cannot be found.
Download or read book The Girl Who Dances with Skeletons written by Ashley Wellman and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseball in April and Other Stories written by Gary Soto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California's Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter Barbies, annoying brothers, Little League tryouts, and karate lessons weave the colorful fabric of Soto's world. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us. Glossary of Spanish terms included. Awards: ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist Editors' Choice, Horn Book Fanfare Selection, Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book, Parenting Magazine's Reading Magic Award, John and Patricia Beatty Award
Download or read book Valley Fever written by Katherine Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ingrid Palamede never returns to places she's lived in the past. For her, 'whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left.' But when her boyfriend Howard, en route to Aspen, breaks things off out of the blue, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the real wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers like Gallo and Kendall-Jackson, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and their financial woes, soured friendships, and blissfully bad decisions"--
Download or read book Buried Onions written by Gary Soto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Download or read book Resiliency and the Hmong Child Growing Up in Fresno written by Susanne Dennington Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
