Last August, the Downtown Association screened a copy of the rare 1968 documentary film “Fresno: A City Reborn” which was commissioned by Victor Gruen Associates, the architectural company responsible for designing the Fulton Mall. The film spoke of urban renewal and preventing suburban sprawl, and how Fresno was a model city for taking steps in the right direction. Hindsight is a bitch.
Feel free to re-live that day by watching the 20-minute film again on YouTube. Or if you couldn’t make it to the screening, here’s your chance to see it for the first time. On the plus side, there’s some really great imagery of the Fresno of the ’60s.
Sweet! Still moves me to see how Fultom Mall used to be.
Look at it this way – Fresno finally got to be #1 in something – abandoning the urban core for endless suburban sprawl. Nobody does it better. Take that Daily Beast!
Good find, sir! I asked Joe at the time of the screening, how we could leagally get this up on Youtube or buy it or something, I guess someone figured it out.
Life finds a way, sir. Life finds a way…
Nah not really. I'm just going to take all the liability since it's my youtube account. Haha.
Joe Moore sent me here.
This is a real gem. Funny how we’re still talking about preventing urban sprawl after we’ve incorporated a couple of towns, such as Pinedale and Highway City.
Joe Moore sent me here.
This is a real gem. Funny how we’re still talking about preventing urban sprawl after we’ve incorporated a couple of towns, such as Pinedale and Highway City.
this truly is depressing.