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mariacallous · 3 months ago

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Every so often along 99 between Bakersfield and Sacramento there is a town: Delano, Tulare, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Modesto, Stockton. Some of these towns are pretty big now, but they are all the same at heart, one- and two- and three-storey buildings artlessly arranged, so that what appears to be the good dress shop stands between a W. T. Grant store, so that the big Bank of America faces a Mexican movie house. Dos Peliculas, Bingo Bingo Bingo. Beyond the downtown (pronounced downtown with the Okie accent that now pervades Valley speech patterns) lie blocks of old frame houses – paint peeling, sidewalks cracking, their occasional leaded amber windows overlooking a Foster’s Freeze or a five-minute car wash or a State Farm Insurance office; beyond those spread the shopping centers and the mills of tract houses, pastel with redwood siding, the unmistakable signs of cheap building already blossoming on those houses which have survived the first rain. To a stranger driving 99 in an air-conditioned car (he would be on business, I suppose, any stranger driving 99, for 99 would never get a tourist to Big Sur or San Simeon, never get him to the California he came to see), these towns must seem so flat, so impoverished, as to drain the imagination. They hint at evenings spent hanging around gas stations, and suicide pacts sealed in drive-ins. But remember:

Q. In what way does the Holy Land resemble the Sacramento Valley? A. In the type and diversity of its agricultural products.

U.S. 99 in fact passes through the richest and most intensely cultivated agricultural region in the world, a giant outdoor hothouse with a billion-dollar crop. It is when you remember the Valley’s wealth that the monochromatic flatness of its towns takes on a curious meaning, suggests a habit of mind some would consider perverse. There is something in the Valley mind that reflects a real indifference to the stranger in his air-conditioned car, a failure to perceive even his presence, let alone his thoughts or wants. An implacable insularity is the seal of these towns. I once met a woman in Dallas, a most charming and attractive woman accustomed to the hospitality and social hypersensitivity of Texas, who told me that during the four war years her husband had been stationed in Modesto, she had never once been invited inside anyone’s house. No one in Sacramento would find this story remarkable (“She probably had no relatives there,” said someone to whom I told it), for the Valley towns understand one another, share a peculiar spirit. They think alike and they look alike. I can tell Modesto from Merced, but I have visited there, gone to dances there; besides there is over the main street of Modesto an arched sign which reads:

WATER – WEALTH CONTENTMENT – HEALTH

There is no such sign in Merced.

Notes From A Native Daughter – Joan Didion

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hooved · 1 year ago

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i've been looking for and attending some lgbt events in the area so i can meet more ppl and it took me a bit to realize that when ppl say something is at "DTF" they mean "downtown fresno" like i fully just assumed there was a gay bar or something called Down To Fuck here

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remembertheplunge · 8 months ago

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The Rainbow Room

5/29,2006

I’m back at Queen bean coffee House, a gay friendly coffee house who’s theme is "WHERE I BELONG”. I like the broad red and yellow striped walls of the interior. It’s open Monday, Memorial Day.

Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” plays here now.

Jim’s driving me nuts, so, I flee, secretly here and then, publicly, to the jail.

I can’t find my fucking file! So, I’m going to see the client in the jail file free. Joe’s got it!

Espresso here is 81 cents. It’s $1.25 at Deva’s.

The espresso here at Queen Bean is pretty good.

So, I grabbed my jail pass, this estate sale pad, 2 pens and quick, delicious shower and I split . Jim’s dopey on his meds back home.

What a way to celebrate 25 years of lawyering. May 29, 1981-May 29, 2006.

I mentioned it to Jim and he futzed around. He is needy, grasspy but, too, pushes away. We thrash and thrive. And try. And move and accomplish.

A private anniversary. Private’s nice.

So, what of the past. Passed. Twenty Five Years?

Wow! Hard to even be with.

9:15am. Stanislaus County Jail

It’s Memorial Day. 5/29/2006

I’m waiting in the Rainbow Room. I hope that the jail guards bring the right guy.

Sure enough, a rainbow, through the glass blocks!

From some were nearby in the jail I hear

“1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10…over and over. Breathy voice an inmate workout echos.

So, back to my 25 year anniversary of lawyering.

25 years of:

Clients,

jailing

Trials

judges

, money woes.

Ive opened to practicing criminal law as I’ve opened to self’and

To other things

Mutual expansion.

Intense.

Harsh.

Law

Mean.

Teacher

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Notes: Jim was my partner Jim. We bought a house together In Modesto, California in 1998. He died in 2009.

Queen Bean was a coffee house located about a mile from our house.

The jail was located downtown then. It has since moved way out in the country. But, during the days of the old jail, I would often counsel clients in an interview room that had a block glass wall that faced east. It would cast rainbows on the adjacent wall in the interview room when hit by the sun. Thun sun’s way of casting eternity into the dark hell of the jail. Thus, my name for that interview room “The Rainbow Room."

That interview room was very close to jail cells where the inmates were housed. The jail environment was cacophony of loud, blaring TVs, and men shouting and screaming. There was a constant den and roar to it. The rain bows appeared in sharp contrast to this.

Deva’s was restaurant in Modesto.

I passed the February 1981 bar and was sworn in as a lawyer in Fresno California on 5/29/1981.

My partner Jim was suffering from liver problems in May of 2006. Thus, the medications he was on and his grumpiness.

Joe, who had the file that I needed, was my case investigator.

#gay history #gay relationship #5/29/2006 #criminal defens #jail visits #Jail life #finding alone time when in a relationship #relationship struggles and and evolution #coffee house as sactuary #journaling #writing #25 years of lawyering #life review #tom petty #Tom Petty Free Fallin'

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musicfren · 8 months ago

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Protests March 2nd (this Saturday). Mostly USA, some global

Albuquerque, New Mexico

11:00 a.m.

Tiguex Park

Sponsored by: PSL Waukegan

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

10:00 a.m.

Town Hall Lawn

Sponsored by: Cape Codders for Peace and Justice

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gekaay · 1 year ago

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My room from my hometown Fresno (2019-2022)

My first apartment/photostudio in Downtown LA (January 2023)

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thekiarajones · 2 years ago

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A tiny bit dramatic 🙈 #model #beautiful #like #instagram #instagood #instamood #instagramers #photooftheday #photo #photography #wall #downtown #picoftheday #photoshoot #portrait #photojournalism #gorgeous #loveher #love #gorgeous #curlyhair #hairstyles #hairstyles #people #pretty #girl #modeling #modeling #fresno #california #cal #explorepage✨ #viral (at Fresno, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEqWGtJeC7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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lahistory · 2 years ago

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Remembering the birthday of artist Leo Politi (born on November 21, 1908) with his painting of Broadway and 4th Street in downtown Los Angeles. Though he was born in Fresno, he found creative inspiration in Los Angeles and its disappearing landmarks. This painting was part of the Italian American Museum’s exhibit in 2019.

And here’s the link to that intersection today (via Google Maps): https://goo.gl/maps/X1yHfU2UbbYdJotx8.

#DTLA #leopoliti #bradburybuilding

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musikfanatic · 3 months ago

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#Downtown #Fresno

Fresno (1967)

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kylelowe · 2 years ago

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Jeff and I try vegan burgers at Plant Slayer. Where should we go next?

#New Food Fridays #vlog #Fresno #Downtown Fresno

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lboogie1906 · 1 month ago

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Mayor Dr. Lee Patrick Brown (October 4, 1937) is a criminologist, public administrator, politician, and businessman; in 1997 he was the first African American to be elected mayor of Houston. He was re-elected twice to serve a maximum of three terms.

He has had a long career in law enforcement and academia; leading police departments in Atlanta, Houston, and New York over nearly four decades. With practical experience and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, he has combined research and operations in his career. After serving as Public Safety Commissioner of Atlanta, he was appointed in 1982 as the first African American police chief in Houston, where he implemented techniques in community policing to reduce crime.

A high school athlete, he earned a football scholarship to Fresno State University, where he earned a BS in criminology. That year he started as a police officer in San Jose, where he served for eight years. He was elected as the president of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association.

He went on to earn an MA in sociology from San José State University and became an assistant professor there. He earned a second MS in criminology from UC Berkeley. He moved to Portland, where he established and served as chairman of the Department of Administration of Justice at Portland State University.

As mayor, the city invested extensively in infrastructure: it started the first 7.5-mile leg of its light-rail system and obtained voter approval for an extension, along with increases in bus service, park and ride facilities, and HOV lanes. It opened three new professional sports facilities, attracting visitors to the city. It revitalized the downtown area: constructing the City’s first convention center hotel, doubling the size of the convention center; and constructing the Hobby Center of the Performing Arts. It built and renovated new libraries, police, and fire stations. He initiated a $2.9 billion development program at the city’s airport, which consisted of new terminals and runways; and a consolidated rental car facility, renovating other terminals and runways, he built a new water treatment plant. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

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josephineswrld · 2 months ago

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09.05.24

I renamed the folder that held these photos "INO cless mir". I had not seen Celeste and Miriam since May 2024, that's what, 4 months ago?? It's true what they say about friendships after high school--they become much harder to prioritize.

I invited them to a fashion show held in Downtown Fresno last minute--and they agreed! I felt so bad for showing up an hour late, I had just gotten off my closing shift (I got promoted btw!) and drove straight there. Soon as I arrived, streets were dead empty. It was actually a sad thing to see--Arthop is usually so lively with vendors and people...

We ended up going to IN-N-OUT on Jensen & 99 and stayed til 12am. Props to Owen for not throwing a fit and letting us girlies chit chat. He's a great boyfriend to Celeste, not so much a great cameraman--it's okay, we got a few laughs out of it. Here's to our next hangout in 2 months, the Cabin Trip. Hopefully, the trip makes it out the group chat so I can update this blog, I'm having a great time.

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mariacallous · 2 years ago

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Every so often along 99 between Bakersfield and Sacramento there is a town: Delano, Tulare, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Modesto, Stockton. Some of these towns are pretty big now, but they are all the same at heart, one- and two- and three-story buildings artlessly arranged, so that what appears to be the good dress shop stands beside a W. T. Grand store, so that the big Bank of America faces a Mexican movie house. Dos Peliculas, Bingo Bingo Bingo. Beyond the downtown (pronounced downtown, with the Okie accent that now pervades Valley speech patterns) lie blocks of old frame houses - paint peeling, sidewalks cracking, their occasional leaded amber windows overlooking a Foster’s Freeze or a five-minute car wash or a State Farm Insurance office; beyond those spread the shopping centers and the miles of tract houses, pastel with redwood siding, the unmistakable signs of cheap building already blossoming on those houses which have survived the first rain. To a stranger driving 99 in an air-conditioned car (he would be on business, I suppose, any stranger driving 99, for 99 would never get a tourist to Big Sur or San Simeon, never get him to the California he came to see), these towns must seem so flat, so impoverished, as to drain the imagination. They hint at evenings spent hanging around gas stations, and suicide pacts sealed in drive-ins.

But remember:

Q. In what way does the Holy Land resemble the Sacramento Valley? A. In the type and diversity of its agricultural products.

U.S. 99 in fact passes through the riches and most intensely cultivated agricultural region in the world, a giant outdoor hothouse with a billion-dollar-crop. It is when we remember the Valley's wealth that the monochromatic flatness of its towns takes on a curious meaning, suggests a habit of mind some would consider perverse. There is something in the Valley mind that reflects a real indifference to the stranger in his air-conditioned car, a failure to perceive even his presence, let alone his thoughts or wants. An implacable insularity in the seal of these towns. I once met a woman in Dallas, a most charming and attractive woman accustomed to the hospitality and social hypersensitivity of Texas, who told me that during the four war years her husband had been stationed in Modesto, she had never once been invited inside anyone's house. No one in Sacramento would find this story remarkable. ("She probably had no relatives there," said someone to whom I told it), for the Valley towns understand oen another, share a peculiar spirit. They think alike and they look alike. I can tell Modesto from Merced, but I have visited there, gone to dances there; besides, there is over the streets of Modesto an arched sign which reads:

WATER- WEALTH CONTENTMENT - HEALTH

There is no such sign in Merced.

From "Notes from a Native Daughter" in Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

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spraguepestsolutions · 3 months ago

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Sprague Pest Solutions – Fresno in Fresno, CA

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Fresno, CA

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Fresno County Blossom Trail

Are you aware that the Fresno County Blossom Trail is a popular tourist spot situated in Fresno, CA? Well, there are still numerous tourists who haven’t visited the place. However, it is a favored venue for weekend getaways. The 2024 Blossom Trail season over. However, blooms turn into fruits and nuts, so be on the lookout for fresh tree fruit starting in May through early fall. Then, orchards along the Blossom Trail are private property, not open to public access. Besides, visitors can view and photograph the blossoms safely from the shoulder of the road. Lastly, Blossom viewing is typically mid-February to mid-March.

Enrobing ceremony held for first Sikh judge appointed to Fresno County Superior Court

We know that there are many inspiring news reports in the Fresno, CA area. One of the stories has something to do with the newly-appointed judge. Basically, it was mentioned in the news reports that a historic day for Fresno County as Assistant City Attorney Raj Singh Badhesha officially became the first Sikh person appointed to Superior Court. Surrounded by family, friends and leaders in the Sikh community, an enrobing ceremony was held for Badhesha in Downtown Fresno on Thursday. In a historic first, Badhesha will be the first sikh judge in the U.S. to wear the traditional Sikh headdress.

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