Kathy Omachi used to wonder why there was no D Street in Fresno’s Chinatown.
The street names otherwise went in order from A to G in the West Fresno neighborhood, then continued through the alphabet in downtown proper.
Omachi later learned that there indeed used to be a D Street — but that was all before State Route 99 came along. The north-south freeway was built over what was once D Street in the 1950s, taking down hundreds of West Fresno homes with it…