Downtown Fresno

Patterned after LA's Original Farmer's Market, it was a Fresno landmark from the 1940s through the 1990s.

Fresno's Hughes Hotel was destroyed on July 10, 1953, and numerous other buildings were damaged in an arson spree that remains unsolved to this day.

Duke Ellington's song "Skin Deep" was recorded in 1952 at Fresno's Rainbow Ballroom.

The bond market has delivered $70 million to the stalled project behind Chukchansi Park, in the Brewery District.

This ornate landmark in downtown Fresno has been vacant for around 50 years.

Fresno's Azteca Theater was the focal point of Fresno's Latino community in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, hosting Mexico's biggest film stars and a stop on Cesar Chavez's march to Sacramento in 1966.

Back when Railroad Avenue was U.S. Route 99, downtown merchants funded the archway to help draw motorists to their businesses.

Downtown Fresno's Fulton Mall was just one year old when plans for the indoor Fashion Fair shopping mall in North Fresno went public in 1965.

In the span of 50 years, Fresno went from a ramshackle frontier town to hosting a hi-rise designed to rival any other banking building on the West Coast.

At 10 stories tall, the steel-framed office building set the model for most of downtown Fresno's other tall buildings in the following two decades.