[DOC] [TLE] Growing Up In Fresno | William Saroyan Society [PAR] Well, that's easy for me because, having been born in Fresno, and having ... to 
California to take over the church in Yettem, which is the only Armenian city in .... 
For instance, if the teachers are stupid as they were, for the most part, you notice 
that. ..... to begin with, in the Valley  the San Joaquin Valley, in Fresno, in 
Tulare,... [DOC] [TLE] ValleyHistory.org / Recommended Reading - Recommended Reading [PAR] Then, making more and more progress, it shines. . . and at last, in full glory of 
splendor, brings out ... Garden of the Sun: A History off the San Joaquin Valley, 
1772-1939 ... Published as part of the Centennial Anniversary of Fresno City's ... 
Published in the Centennial Anniversary year of William Saroyan's birth, this 
collection... [DOC] [TLE] Fresno County - Freepages - Ancestry.com [PAR] It lies in the flat San Joaquin Valley, about 184 miles ... Institutions of higher 
education include Fresno City College and California State University, Fresno. [DOC] [TLE] Fresno - Armeniapedia.org [PAR] Jun 20, 2016 ... These include the statues of William Saroyan (1950) and David of Sassoun ... the 
Ottoman Empire brought more immigrants to the San Joaquin Valley, which ... By 
1930 Armenians owned 40% of the raisin acreage in Fresno County. ... City 
officials have long touted Old Armenian Town as a key part of their... [DOC] [TLE] A Geographer Looks at the San Joaquin Valley [PAR] The San Joaquin, wider and much more intensively developed, includes half a 
dozen substantial cities, ... The southern part of the valley was a barren desert 
waste with scattered saltbush (Atriplex) when ... California, after all, is the nation's 
most urbanized state. .... The late William Saroyan, born in Fresno, was their idol. [DOC] [TLE] Dream Unravels : Fresno: Rise and Fall of Urban Mall - latimes [PAR] Apr 28, 1988 ... Scores of American cities would pursue Fresno's vision. ... Today, most 
municipalities that followed the Fresno model must contend with moribund ... 
boom that huge water projects were bringing to the San Joaquin Valley. "We had 
buried no great men," Fresno-born author William Saroyan wrote in 1934,... [DOC] [TLE] Fresno, California - Wikipedia [PAR] Fresno the county seat of Fresno County, is a city in the U.S. state of California. 
As of 2016, the city's population was 520,000, making it the fifth-largest city in 
California, the largest inland city in California and the 34th-largest in the nation. 
Fresno is in the center of the San Joaquin Valley and is the largest city in the ... 
The county was much larger than it is today as part of Tulare County,... [DOC] [TLE] Fresno transforms into Saroyanville / Huge festival honors writer and ... [PAR] Apr 1, 2002 ... Most of the Fresno that Saroyan knew has been paved over in the name of ... 
Starr had just written "Americans and the California Dream," the first of an ... of his 
old haunts and a bike ride to his favorite part of the San Joaquin River. ... the city 
librarian in San Francisco and Saroyan dropped by to see him. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Arax - Award Winning Journalist and Author [PAR] ... Father's Name: A Family, A Town, A Murder; West of the West; The King of 
California. ... His most recent book, West of the West, comes out in paperback in 
the ... San Joaquin Valley; his father, Ara, was born on a raisin farm outside 
Fresno. ... of California" won a 2004 California Book Award and the 2005 William 
Saroyan... [DOC] [TLE] Saroyan is a prominent thread in Fresno's Armenian tapestry [PAR] May 25, 2008 ... 31, 1908, well after Armenians began flocking to the Valley. ... Collectively, they 
would go on to reshape a city that is now known worldwide as a ... professor in 
the Armenian Studies department at California State University, Fresno. ... were 
farming more than 16,000

Question: William Saroyan was born & for the most part "raisin" this California city in the San Joaquin Valley
Answer: Fresno