Fresno Through the Years

Here’s another great old video from KMJ-TV, Fresno’s first television station.

Here’s some of the interesting parts:

• 2:10 Bandits and Thieves! Juan Soto, Joaquin Murrieta, & Pegleg Smith.
• 2:30 San Francisco Syndicate.
• 4:10 Fresno’s First Merchant Jim Faber.
• 4:20 Land at $3 an Acre!
• 4:53 a total of 55 Buildings in Fresno – 4 merchandise stores, 3 hotels and 9 bars!
• 6:30 Fire Protection was formed with a stalwart looking group of volunteers.
• 6:47 First Grist Mill at Anne and Fresno Street.
• 7:25 Black Bart in Fresno.
• 8:21 Umbrella Trees line the streets.
• 8:48 Kearney plans Chateau.
• 8:55 The Floods of Fresno.
• 10:49 Fresno County Fairgrounds.
• 12:10 The Barton Opera House.
• 12:27 The first Fresno High School.
• 12:48 Giant city wide BBQ!
• 14:36 Fresno’s first Public Library.
• 15:40 Cycling in Fresno.
• 16:26 Airplanes come to Fresno!
• 17:30 Bathing Beauties in Fancher Creek.
• 19:35 Skyscrapers come to Fresno Skyline.
• 20:21 West Coast Relays.
• 20:57 William Saroyan publishes his first book.
• 22:24 Friant Dam built.
• 22:48 Fresno County AG tops the nation.
• 22:37 Arsonist hits Fresno with 10 fires in a day.
• 24:30 Fresno and Clovis meet.
• 25:32 First Fresno Freeway.
• 26:10 many new Hospitals are built.
• 26:30 Fresno State Dorms Added.

And we just have to mention the background organ music that goes throughout. It’s pretty cool that they sneak in a little Yankee Doodle riff right at the end.

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