I had the pleasure of being invited to attend this afternoon’s open house for the new Fresno S.O. Area 2 Substation at Armstrong/Turner. It’s a wonderful new building that should serve them well for many years. It replaces a rental building on Shields Ave. that was used since the 1980s. When we first started using the Shields building, we thought it was pretty fancy. Well, except for the constantly leaking roof. This one blows it away. They have awesome three dimensional badges on the side of building.
Just the right amount of dignitary speeches and a tour of the facility. It was good seeing some familiar faces and getting caught up. And of course, some of the new black and white patrol cars.
This is 1954 map of Fresno metro and eastern Fresno County that was gifted to me back in the 1970-1980s. I had it framed later, and it’s hung in my offices at TCI, AT&T, and then in my Yosemite home. I dropped it off a month or so ago for the substation to use. They have agreed within the substation not to hang anything on the walls for a while, so for the time being it sits over a memorial case to some of the fallen deputies.
