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Standing at the south-east corner of Courthouse Park at Tulare and K Street looking south-east on Tulare. The new Post Office building is on the right with the Patterson block behind it. The Fresno Republican Building is on the left side of Tulare…

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A look down J Street (now Fulton) looking towards Tulare and Mariposa cross streets. The photographer is standing just south of the Sequoia Hotel and its adjacent Forsyth building. You can see the Fresno Traction Company's electric street cars…

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A typical day at the turn of the century. A man and woman are walking into Courthouse Park on Mariposa Street having just crossed K Street. The Boy with the Leaking Boot Fountain can be seen on the right, the Temple Bar Building behind it.

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Orignally built as the home for William N. Oothout on his 560 acre Sunnyside Estate where he plated the first Thompson Seedless grapes. In 1911, 9 men bought a portion of the estate and mansion to build a golf course. The Sunnyside Country Club . It…

Barton Opera House
Built in 1889-1890 by Robert Barton a local vineyardist, the Barton Opera House was a state of the art theater facility. The Opera House had a capacity of 1600 seats. The building was located at the corner of Fresno and J(Fulton) Street.

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An exterior view of the Parlor Lecture Clubhouse. It was located at 1350 Van Ness Ave.

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The old courthouse and county jail at Millerton the first in Fresno County abandoned seven years after it was built- Sept 24 1874.

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Big Creek School house

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Kinema Theater was built by the Roeding Estate Company on Fulton Street which is now currently Fulton Mall. The theater had 1,400 seats and was noted for being built without a stage. The first film was shown in November 30, 1913. In 1952 Gamble and…
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