FRESNO: For many years the California Central Valley has been a mecca for Punjabi Immigrants. Because of the similarity in climatic and the growing population of Punjabis and Pakistanis, merchants and vendors are finding a fruitful business home. This week saw the grand opening of yet another business in the center of the East Asian population in the Fresno area. Sunrise Audio & Video, owned by Harjap Singh Abwal, joins the store like India Sweets and Spices, in a strip mall at Ashlan and Marks Avenues in Fresno.
There is already a Punjabi restaurant, jewelry store and grocery in the mall and a travel agency and insurance agency are scheduled to open soon
Congratulations to the Fresno entrepreneurs and we wish them success with their enterprises,
Top Left: Mayor Jim Patterson, with Harry Gill of Gill Insurance Bottom Left: Iqbal Singh Grewal, Harry Gill, Mayor Jim Patterson, Harjap Attwal of Sunrise Audio &Video, Rajind K. Jawa of India veets and Spices.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 31, 1996
