Central Valley Roots

By KVPR

KVPR's Central Valley Roots explores the history, people and places of Central California. Discover something new about our region, past and present, with each episode. From Fresno and Bakersfield, to... more

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The podcast currently has 132 episodes available.

Central Valley Roots episodes:

December 30, 2025 Owens Mountain looms over Northeast Fresno and Clovis. Here's its story...
The mountain has history that includes mining, ranching and serving as a fire lookout.
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2min
December 29, 2025 How Fresno's Fashion Fair mall undercut the city's vision for downtown revitalization, in 1970
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.
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3min
December 24, 2025 How did Kern County get the nickname of the "Golden Empire?"
Kern County isn't the only one to claim the title, which has been in use for close 90 years.
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2min
December 23, 2025 Bakersfield's grande dame: the historic Padre Hotel
This historic Bakersfield hotel was reborn in 2010, and has a colorful history filled with Hollywood celebrities and an eccentric owner who once pointed a "missile" at city hall.
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3min
December 22, 2025 The story of Poso Creek and the town of Famoso
From the Greenhorn Mountains east of Delano to Famoso along Highway 99, Poso Creek has been an important part of Kern County history.
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3min
December 18, 2025 The women who helped pioneer Fresno's raisin industry
Four teachers founded Fresno's Hedgerow Vineyard, and in 1878 were among the first to pack and ship raisins from Fresno.
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2min
December 17, 2025 The Eisen Brothers and the birth of Fresno's raisin industry
Francis Eisen's first raisin crop came by accident, after a heat wave left his Muscat grapes dried on the vine in 1877.
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2min
December 16, 2025 Bakersfield's Rosedale Colony and the curious case of the "remittance man"
Second-born sons of the British aristocracy, who often ran afoul of Victorian-era social standards, known as "remittance men," were among those recruited to settle Kern County's Rosedale Colony.
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2min
December 15, 2025 The jewel of Fresno's skyline: the Pacific Southwest Building
The Pacific Southwest Building was intended to be unsurpassed by any bank building on the West Coast.
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2min
December 12, 2025 Big banks, the Roaring 20s and raisins: why Fresno's Pacific Southwest Building was built
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.
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3min

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