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Tom Stefanopoulos' house
Champion3 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Champion3.
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Athanasios "Tom" Stefanopoulos is the owner and president of Stamoules Produce Company.

Steve Cloud's House
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By: jdubble07.
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Steve Cloud is president of Fresno Distributing.

Farid Assemi's House
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By: borlefborlef.
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Farid Assemi started 40 years ago in the homebuilding business.
He had started building homes with his father in their native Iran, and when Assemi immigrated to the U.S. in 1977, he— with the backing of his family — got a bank loan to start a home-building business, with the first one built in 1987 in Madera.
Initially, success was elusive, as the recession of the early 1980s hurt the demand for new homes.
Current estimates are that Granville will build about 200 homes by the end of this year.
He is also involved heavily in commercial real estate. He owns a Gulfstream 4 private jet (N41ZA). He owns a house in Carmel also mapped.

Josh Koscheck's House
Xeba73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Xeba73.
The mixed martial artist lives here.

John Bonadelle's house
Champion3 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Champion3.
John Bonadelle is a developer and home builder.

Jerry De Young's house
Champion3 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Champion3.
Jerry De Young is President and CEO of De Young Properties, a central California home-builder.

1109th Aviation California Aviation Classification Repair Depot (AVCRAD)
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The 1106th AVCRAD (Aviation Classification Repair Depot) located in Fresno is one of four Army National Guard units of its kind in the country. Its main mission is to repair and maintain aircraft such as Blackhawk helicopters. AVCRAD has a major reserve component, but it also has many full-time staff that work at the facility.

MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP) Black Hawk helicopter
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP) is an MH-60L modified to mount a variety of offensive weapons systems. Its mission is to conduct attack helicopter operations utilizing area fire or precision guided munitions and armed infiltration or exfiltration of small units. It is capable of conducting direct action (DA) missions as an attack helicopter or has the capability to reconfigure for troop assault operations. In the Direct Action role, the DAP would not normally be used as a primary transport for troops or supplies because of high gross weight limits. The DAP is capable of conducting all missions during day, night, or adverse weather conditions.
Also known informally as the "AH-60L", this upgrade of MH-60L was initiated in 1990 with the addition of FLIR, radar and standard UH-60 external stores support systems. Two Black Hawk companies of 160th SOAR each have a MH-60K platoon and MH-16K-DAP/AH-60L platoon. The MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP) armaments include a mix of multiple 30-mm Chain Gun, racks of four Hellfires and 2.75 in rocket pods, 40 mm grenade launcher or trainable 7.62 mm Gatling guns.
The MH-60L Army Special Operations variant is a UH-60L with various mods to include updated cockpit, additional avionics, precision navigation system, FLIR, aircraft survivability equipment, external tank system. Provide medium & utility helicopter support to SOF unique misions. The older MH-60L can be adapted to the attack mission by attaching dual weapons pylons to both sides of the fuselage. Pylon mounting cannon, rockets, or missiles can be supplemented by door or port mounting guns or launchers, limited mainly by the range, duration, cargo, or troops required to complete the mission. The helicopter's mission is insertion and extraction of special operations troops. Survivability equipment includes radar and missile warning systems and IR jammers.

Big Fresno Fairgrounds
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Home of the Big Fresno Fair every October!

Jose Ibarra's house
Jose Ibarra is a family doctor.

Sunnyside High School
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
That looks like one heckuva well-funded high school!

Roosevelt High School
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
I hope this image wasn't captured during baseball season!

Another UFO Landing Pad
Between Belmont Ave and East Kings Canyon Rd, it appears a local farmer has planted this double ring of trees in a perfect circle for the purpose of providing alien aircraft a clearly marked spot to land. (Certainly there is no other reason for planting trees in such a design, is there?!)

Fresno Island Water Park
mikeb9991 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mikeb9991.

Daryle Lamonica's House
Xeba73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Xeba73.
The former professional football player lives here.

John Madhu's House
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.
John Madhu is a radiation oncologist.

Jerry Garrett's House
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.
Jerry Garrett is an executive with Westin Engineering.

Chukchansi Park
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
Home field to the Fresno Grizzlies

Fresno Yosemite International Airport
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Bulldog Stadium
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
Home to Fresno State University Bulldogs football

Mexican Flag
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
Mexican Flag at the Mexican Consulates in Fresno.

LDS Temple - Fresno
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Riojas family
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Season 6, episode 17. Aired 03/08/2009.

Save Mart Center
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.
Save Mart Center at Fresno State is a multi-purpose arena, on the campus of the California State University, Fresno, located in Fresno, California. An open house was held for community on November 5, 2003, with the official ribbon cutting following on November 27, 2003.
It is home to the Fresno State Bulldogs basketball team and, for the first five seasons in the ECHL (2003-08), the Fresno Falcons ice hockey team; prior to the opening of the building, they played at Selland Arena.

McDonald's
5645 East Kings Canyon Rd.

Fresno State University
quesera (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: quesera.

Airplane - Crop Duster Crop Dusting
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.

Bulldog Stadium
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.
Bulldog Stadium at Jim Sweeney Field is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of California State University, Fresno in Fresno, California. It is the home field of the Fresno State Bulldogs of the Western Athletic Conference. The stadium opened in 1980 with a capacity of 30,000 and has a current seating capacity of 41,031. It hosted the California Bowl from 1981-91 and friendly matches prior to the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The playing field is FieldTurf and sits at an elevation of 335 feet (102 m) above sea level.

Fresno Pacific University
sfoerster (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: sfoerster.

Tanks outside Fresno, CA
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
A huge plot of some kind of tanks outside Fresno. I count 116 large, 108 medium, and at least 32 small tanks, for over 250 tanks. To the east are what looks like a trunk fueling station, parking lot, and rows of containers, probably trailer tanks.
Is this an oil refinery, or a dairy, or some other kind of chemical?

Guitar Shaped Pool
mikeb9991 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mikeb9991.

F-16 taxiing
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.

Univision 21 - KFTV
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The current incarnation of Fresno's Channel 21 is KFTV, an affiliate of the Univision Network. It formed in 1972 in studios located at 3239 W Ashlan Ave in Central Fresno. In 2009, the station moved to its current headquarters in North Fresno at 706 W Herndon Avenue.

Old Fresno Water Tower
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
The Old Fresno Water Tower is located at Fresno and O Streets in downtown Fresno. Built in the American Romanesque style, it stands 109 feet high, with a storage capacity of 250,000 gallons in its water tank. It is constructed of red brick, each layer smaller than the one below it, to produce a beehive effect. It also has a two-foot thick inner wall, and an outer wall of about fourteen inches. There is a passage, or hollow space, about three feet wide between the two walls. The outside of the tower has a painted surface over the brick construction.

'Runyon Residence' by Arthur Dyson
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
1992

Two car accident with fire engine and tow truck
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.

Young Corbett III (Ralph Giordano)
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Young Corbett III (born May 27, 1905 in Potenza, Basilicata, Italy, d. 1993) was the world Welterweight boxing champion. He was born Raffaele Capabianca Giordano and began boxing in 1919 as Young Corbett III while still a 14-year-old "newsboy."

Hank's Swank Par 3 Golf Course
A 9-hole Par 3 course with driving range and night golf in the summer on Saturday nights.

Sunnyside Drive-in (closed)
This drive-in opened in 1965 and closed in the late 1980s. Pacific Theaters used the property for swap meets until the late 1990s. The grounds had space for 1612 cars. Everything was demolished in 2004.

David of Sassoun statue
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
David of Sasun or David of Sassoun is an Armenian epic hero from the Daredevils of Sassoun who drove Arab invaders out of Armenia.

Rick Norsigian's House
Rick Norsigian, in 2010, purchased some film negatives for $45 at a local yard sale. The negatives turned out to be original Ansel Adams negatives worth an estimated $200M.

Airplane in the driveway
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Fresno Chaffee Zoo
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry air attack base
Both the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry operate an Air Attack Base at the airport for fighting forest fires with aerial tankers.

Pete Beiden Field
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.
Pete Beiden Field, formerly Varsity Park, is a baseball stadium on the campus of the California State University, Fresno in Fresno, California, built in 1966. The baseball park is the current home of the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team, and named after former baseball coach Pete Beiden, who led the team to 600 wins in 21 seasons from 1948 to 1969. Prior to the opening of Grizzlies Stadium in 2002, the park also was the home of the Fresno Grizzlies minor league baseball team of the triple-A Pacific Coast League.

'Bucephalus' by Alexander Calder
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
at the Saroyan Theatre

'Sweet Sixteen' by Greg O'Halloran
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
on Fresno State campus

California State Fresno baseball team doing push-ups

Christmas Tree Lane
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Since 1920, a two mile stretch of Van Ness Blvd. has had many elaborate decorations during the Christmas holiday season.

F-16s at Fresno Yosemite Int'l
mikeb9991 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mikeb9991.
144th Fighter Wing

Briggs Canal
Some water for the vegetables in the Fresno farmland.

F-16 taxiing

Various military helicopters

General Dynamics F-16C/D Fighting Falcon
SpiderX22 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: SpiderX22.
From Fresno ANGB

Sunnyside Country Club
It must be so exclusive that they don't seem to have a website (they don't want the commoners peeking in on them!)

Fresno Arch
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Fresno 1st Church of the Nazarene

Marriage Proposal in parking lot

Fresno Chandler Airport
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Short C-23B Sherpa
The Short C-23 Sherpa is a small transport aircraft built by Short Brothers. The C-23A and C-23B variants was based on the Short 330. The Short 360 derivative was modified to become C-23B+ and C-23C variants.
The CT Aviation Classification and Repair Depot (AVCRAD) provides C-23B Sherpa air logistics support to the support area in conjunction with Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment which is attached to the CT AVCRAD.

Mormon Church

Sierra Sky Park Airport (E79)
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Sierra Sky Park Airport (FAA LID: E79, formerly Q60) is a privately owned, public-use airport located seven miles (11 km) northwest of the central business district of Fresno, a city in Fresno County, California, United States.

'Ellipsoid VI' by Charles O Perry
1964

The Tower Theater
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

University Medical Center

Wash (John S.) Elementary School

Village Green Golf Course
9 Hole Public Course.

Crest Theatre
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)

Jack Daniel statue
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel (September 5, 1846 – October 10, 1911) was an American distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.

Club One Casino

Armed F-16 Fighting Falcons

North American P-51D Mustang

Clovis Police Patrol
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Old Fresno Water Tower
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
See link for more info.

Southern Pacific RR #1238
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 0-6-0 configuration

AMC Pacer In A Scrapyard
Touringfmhome (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Touringfmhome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Pacer

Blackbeard's Family Fun Center

'Webster Elementary' by Arthur Dyson
1999

'Take My Hand' by Clement Renzi

'Balanced/Unbalanced - D' by Fletcher Benton

Giant coffee can

Sam's Italian Deli & Market
By: kkeps.

Don Pepe's Taqueria

2017 Fresno shootings site
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Fresno Gun Club

Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill

Geno's Sandwiches & Salads

'Woodward Park Library' by Arthur Dyson

Calwa Yard - BNSF

American flag barn

Masjid Fresno Islamic Center

Uncle Sams

'Orion' by Tony Rosenthal
on the Fulton Mall

'Big A' by Peter Voulkos
on Mariposa Mall

'Monsters vs Aliens' at Edwards 22 Cinema
Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American computer-animated 3-D science fiction action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The computer-animated movie was the first to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3-D format instead of being converted into 3-D after completion, which added $15 million to the film's budget.

Giant Coffee Can

California firefighter falls through garage roof at burning Fresno home
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.