Armenia Day continued. David of Sassoon again.

We decided to go under the freeway and drive through the other side of the neighborhood. Much of it is no longer what you'd call a "residential area" but there are a few old houses. On most blocks, vacant lots with their dead fruit trees the only sign of what the neighborhood once was.

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While we were near the empty orchards we saw this:



Hey, isn't that David of Sassoon? Yes--he's smaller and he's made of concrete, but he's exactly the same image as the statue at Tulare and M.

We drove around the block to get closer and learn more. We went into the yard and the man who lived there told us that yes, his landlord was Armenian, and that he was storing the statue there.



Yes, D and I think that is another statue of John F. Kennedy, but we don't know anything further.

This lot had two old houses on it, similar to those at the "Old Armenian town" storage. The one in the back has a fruiting mulberry growing next to the front porch.


This was our last stop in the old neighborhood. Bulbulian's "Fresno Armenians" had mentioned some Armenian sites east of downtown, so we took a drive.