I agree. That’s close enough to be a Fresno mention.
Rainn, aka “Dwight” from The Office, spotted one of Fresno’s OK Produce trucks – looks like the I-5, maybe South side on the Grapevine:
I feel like OK Produce has been waiting for this moment since they started putting “Rockin’ The Beets!” on their trucks.
No word yet if Dwight will be changing the OK Produce name to Schrute Farms.
Dorkness Not Exclusive To Fresnans
Ha! You San Fransico people. What a bunch of DORKS! Getting exciting about some store opening? Jeeeeez, get a life, nerds. Fresnans would never get excited about some new place opening…😏
Actually, now I’m wondering if Fresno could support a H-Mart, because I think we could and it would be 😎.
Church Borg Absorbs Another Fresno Theater
As the battle to keep the Tower Theatre a theater and not a church continues, Fresno has lost another historic theater to a church.
The Liberty/Hardys on Van Ness has been used as a church for a while, seemingly as a temp thing. But it’s permanent now and they are removing and changing things about the building.
According Dan Waterhouse on a For The Love Of Downtown Fresno Facebook thread, the new owners are removing the front facade that was put up in the 60s.
Normally I’d be like “Crap, what the hell ya doing that for!? Does Jesus hate facades?” But, this MAY be a good thing.
Taking it back to its original all-brick front might look cool - as long as they don’t put up some cheap looking NEW facade as a replacement.
In all seriousness, it really sucks to lose a historic theater to a church. This is not a Downtown or Tower look we want; churches in our coolest buildings. This one isn’t even owned locally.
That’s why the fight to save the Tower Theatre is so important. Thanks for all the work being done to save it.
Fresno! Fresnoooooo!!
Thanks as always for the read! Stay safe!
-Mikey The Fresnan
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