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Joe Roman, streets supervisor for Chowchilla, checks out a service window at the Mammoth Orange food stand. He is perplexed about a sudden, impassioned competition to buy and salvage the ersatz fruit.
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Orange-shaped food stand a hot commodity

Joe Roman, streets supervisor for Chowchilla, checks out a service window at the Mammoth Orange food stand. He is perplexed about a sudden, impassioned competition to buy and salvage the ersatz fruit.

Joe Roman, streets supervisor for Chowchilla, checks out a service window at the Mammoth Orange food stand. He is perplexed about a sudden, impassioned competition to buy and salvage the ersatz fruit. (John Walker / Fresno Bee)

"It was just sitting here year after year" in a municipal storage yard, Roman said. Spider webs drape the ice bin, bird droppings paint the floor and the orange dimple paint is peeling.

“It was just sitting here year after year” in a municipal storage yard, Roman said. Spider webs drape the ice bin, bird droppings paint the floor and the orange dimple paint is peeling.  (John Walker / Fresno Bee)

The City Council will decide this month among hotly contested bids and competing visions of how to honor history and a type of architecture that gave the world doughnut-shaped doughnut shops, elephant-inspired car washes and hot-dog stands in buns.

The City Council will decide this month among hotly contested bids and competing visions of how to honor history and a type of architecture that gave the world doughnut-shaped doughnut shops, elephant-inspired car washes and hot-dog stands in buns. (John Walker / Fresno Bee)

Dale Thomas, vice president of the Chowchilla District Historical Society, talks about saving the landmark. "They were selling a registered California historical landmark without proper notice or bidding. We were really upset when we found out," he said.

Dale Thomas, vice president of the Chowchilla District Historical Society, talks about saving the landmark. “They were selling a registered California historical landmark without proper notice or bidding. We were really upset when we found out,” he said. (John Walker / Fresno Bee)

The landmark Mammoth Orange is a relic of the post-World War II era, marking a time when people breezed through sprawling groves with backdrops of blue skies, listening to jump blues on the radio, windows down, in cars with no air conditioning.

The landmark Mammoth Orange is a relic of the post-World War II era, marking a time when people breezed through sprawling groves with backdrops of blue skies, listening to jump blues on the radio, windows down, in cars with no air conditioning. (John Walker / Fresno Bee)

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