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Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:11 am
by Steve H.
Roeding Park, 1958

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:22 am
by Steve H.
Roeding Park, 1958

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:52 am
by FresnoBeach
This is great proof that there was another location to the Japanese Garden that was in the park before 1941. More recent maps show that island on Washington Lake as the Japanese garden, but I think the original garden was near the now closed Belmont entrance and on those lakes that are now part of the Zoo's new construction.

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:34 pm
by Steve H.
In the 1950's there were two lakes. One was near the carrousel and next to hwy. 99 and near Belmont...that one had the Japanese "shrine" in the center on an island. That was the one with the boat rentals too. The other lake was smaller and also had an island that was heavily wooded. The smaller lake was full of turtles, ducks, and beautiful HUGE lotus plants. I'll be posting photos of the lotus lake soon.

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:30 am
by Steve H.
Roeding Park, 1958

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:47 am
by Steve H.
Roeding Park, 1958

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:46 am
by Steve H.
As kids we spent so much time going back and forth to the Kalkowski's house (behind us) that our folks removed a couple of boards in the fence to make a door for us!

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:28 am
by Steve H.
Roeding Park, 1958

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:14 am
by Steve H.
Fresno District Fair, 1958

Re: 1950's Fresno Photos

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:00 am
by Steve H.
Roeding Park, 1958
Inside the locomotive.