For The Madera Tribune “Skeeko” Alfredo Farnesi. Once upon a time, the Fresno Bee published a column by Woody Laughnan, which carried his...

For The Madera Tribune Sheriff John Barnett, shown here, had his hands full trying to rid Madera of prostitution. Being sheriff of Madera...

For The Madera Tribune General Waldo Sims, Madera’s first black police officer. When the Madera policeman came to the home of Charles...

For The Madera Tribune Sugar Pine workers await lunch from Barsotti’s hotel. The 32 year-old Italian packed his bags and prepared to...

For The Madera Tribune County Treasurer Amer and the wife who worked so hard to get him out of prison. It was Saturday night in Madera,...

For The Madera Tribune Madera even used its old hook and ladder rig to fight the hotel fire. As Maderans neared the end of the 1920s,...

For The Madera Tribune Madera’s police force in 1947. Ernie Fernandez is on the far right. In 1947, Madera was pretty much a peaceful,...

The summer after I graduated from high school, and before I began college, I worked in a men's retail clothing store in downtown Atlanta....