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Article: Fresno's Tower district.(Day trip)(City overview)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Why go now: Bet you didn't know Fresno has a hip indie 'hood brimming with vintage flavor. Check it out this month, while the weather's still welcoming. What you'll find: More than 50 independent record stores, galleries, vintage-clothing shops, and cafes along four long blocks of East Olive Avenue and its side streets. Bring your sneakers: Built up in the '30s as a suburb accessible by Fresno's (now gone) streetcars, the Tower is now one of the city's only walkable neighborhoods. Overheard: "It makes me crazy when people say there's nothing to do in Fresno. There's everything to do in Fresno." Who knew? Fresno's Basque sheep-ranching heritage dates to the turn of the ...
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Article: Fresno: History
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...Fresno: History Settlement of Fresno Delayed Until Arrival of Railroad Fresno means "ash tree" in Spanish, and it was the name given by early Spanish explorers to a stretch of white ash trees along the banks of the San Joaquin River. These ...
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