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Sept. 21, 2024
Avenal’s historic theater was remodeled with help from entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick, whose pistachio “processing campus” is in nearby Lost Hills.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Moe Abdulla, 21, sweeps in front of Amigos mini-mart on East King Street in Avenal.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Christmas decorations are going up on East King Street in the city of Avenal.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)In the 1980s, struggling economically, Avenal became the first of several valley towns to petition successfully for a state prison.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Mayor Harlan Casida says Arenal is “the self-proclaimed pistachio capital of the world. I don’t know what it takes to qualify for that, but there’s a ton of pistachios around us. And nobody has complained so far.”
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Jose Palma, 22, holds his 2-month-old daughter Elyanna in front of a shop on East King Street in Avenal.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Janexsis Navarro, 11, left, and Sophia Aguirre, 5, race down a sidewalk in Avenal, where Spanish is now the predominant language in the shops in the business district.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Edna Ivans, 88, serving her plate at a Rotary Club potluck, was an early proponent of bringing a prison to Avenal.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Inside a shop on East King Street in Avenal.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Sept. 21, 2024