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"Huell Howser visits the Sanger Depot Museum
-- on a Road Trip!"

(left to right) Scott Haugland, Huell
Howser, Bob Bosserman,
James Walton
Watch the ROAD TRIP episode on following
PBS stations:
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City |
Station |
Date |
Time |
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Los Angeles |
KCET |
Sunday July 25 |
7:00 PM |
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Los Angeles |
KCET |
Saturday Aug 21 |
7:00PM (repeat) |
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Sacramento |
KVIE |
Thursday Aug 19 |
8:00 PM |
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San Bernardino |
KVCR |
Thursday Aug 19 |
8:00 PM |
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Fresno |
KVPT |
Thursday Aug 19 |
8:00 PM |
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Fresno |
KVPT |
Sunday Aug 29 |
7:00 PM (repeat)
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Welcome
to the Sanger Depot Museum, where the rich
history of Sanger, California comes to life
from its boomtown beginnings to its growth
into the city known as "the Nation's
Christmas Tree City". Sanger is located
about 10 miles east of Fresno in
California's Central Valley and is right at
the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountain
Range.
The Sanger Depot Museum is actually the
Sanger Railroad Depot, once the hub of the
town's growth. Built in 1887 the Sanger
Railroad Depot sat beside the Southern
Pacific Railroad that ran between Fresno and
Porterville, California. Among the cargo
that passed through this depot was grain,
citrus and lots of lumber brought down from
the mountains by Sanger's booming lumber
operation. When Sanger's commerce no longer
needed the Depot, it was discovered that the
building was the oldest in Sanger. At that
time, Jack Tanney and his brother who had
purchased the Depot donated it to the Sanger
Historical Society. The Museum was opened in
December 1977. |