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SIMONIAN FARMS
Roadside Fruit Farm as Museum
So
you’re driving down the road to somewhere, or no destination
in partcular and you pass a lpace that makes you say what the heck is
that. You don’t stop because they don’t have a big sign telling
you what it is. But the maybe next time you pass, you’ll stop.
The Simonian Farms on Clovis Ave. (see Old
Town Clovis) on the outskirts of Frenso,
California doesn’t have a big sign, they have old tractors, a steam
shovel and gas station signs, railroad ties 
and
fruit. In 1901 Armenian immigrant Bagdasar Simonian and his family began
farming in the San Joaquin Valley
and their roadside fruitstand has become over time a charming personal
museum of 100 years of family farm memorabilia and collectible, with
one of the largest collections of antique farm equipment in California,
inculding 35 restored steel wheeled antique tractors.
As
a business, this family-run farm is uniquely one-of-a-kind in growing
and selling direct over 100 varieties of fruits and vegitables. Cherries,
peaches, grapes, figs, tomatoes, sweet corn, onions, almonds, walnuts,
are just a few that are grown on the farm and displayed in the roadside
market amongst a fascination display of old mannequins, bicycles, porcelain
signs, and even a model train which steams along a track over and around
the displays of fresh and dried goods in tantalizing abundance. And tasting
is allowed. To find this curious place take the Clovis Avenue exit from
California Highway 99 south of Fresno for about 4 miles north, or Jenson
Avenue west. The will also gladly ship their products with gift packages
from their catalogue.© Bargain
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