Remember that horribly depressing documentary “Fresno: A City Reborn”?

Posted by BryanFebruary 10, 2010 - 7:26pm

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.

http://www.dumbdrum.com brodiemash

Sweet! Still moves me to see how Fultom Mall used to be.
Joe Moore

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!
http://www.thefresnan.com The Fresnan

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.

http://www.dumbdrum.com brodiemash

Life finds a way, sir. Life finds a way…
http://www.facebook.com/bharley Bryan

Nah not really. I'm just going to take all the liability since it's my youtube account. Haha.

http://twitter.com/thatfresnoblog Veronica Stumpf

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.
http://twitter.com/thatfresnoblog Veronica Stumpf

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.
Aaron Bell

this truly is depressing.

Remember that horribly depressing documentary “Fresno: A City Reborn”?

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