They set it on Half.com, but you can set your own rates on Ebay.

I'm aware of that, I weren't talking about eBay..I was talking about Amazon.  Just letting folks know to be careful where you sell and what it could cost you.

I sold a few books on Half.com and have a friend who used to a lot of it.  She financed her own reading habit that way.  Smart girl.

 Audrey, your vintage fabric should do well.  Very well infact.  People love vintage..retro is in right now.  It's cool to look old?  WEll, in clothing that is.

Nancy

Remember pants suits?  I have enough material to make every man,  woman and child  in Bakersfield a Butt Ugly 70's style pant suit.  We could become a hippie mecca!

BTW  The fabric is as ugly now as it was then!!!

Nancy, you'd be amazed what certain puzzles sell for on Ebay.  Lately I have been purchasing a lot of 1000 pc Charles Wysocki puzzles, but I can't afford most of the ones I'd like.  An OPENED, somewhat rare one sold recently for $59.00!!   Granted, that's pretty much the exception, but most, especially if still sealed, will sell for two or three times their original retail price.

To give you an idea where I grew up, these taken on Rosedale Highway just west of Fruitvale Ave.

 The building is still there across the highway from Wear Drive where you see the Palm trees (looking north)..sadly, long gone.  (building picture is looking east toward town when Rosedale Hwy was two lane 178)

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Nancy, without photos like those, people like me would never be able to realize just how much this area has grown in the past number of decades.  Thank you for sharing them.

She financed her own reading habit that way.  Smart girl.

I bought and sold all my books that way while in college.  I could purchase them cheaper than what they cost in the bookstore and I could resell them for much more than what they would buy them back.

I think college bookstores are a racket and they overcharge students while the universities are in cahoots with the companies.

Nancy

Didn't we work it out that you and I  attended Rosedale school at approximately the same time?    When I see pictures like the one you shared, it reminds me of my dad.  He used to get parts from a used appliance shop on Rosedale HWY.   I used to wait for him in the car and it seemed to forever for him to locate what he needed.

My pleasure FSG, we moved there in 1947 onto an acre of land my dad and mom bought.  They hand built our house using a lot of scrap lumber from the old hotel that used to be where the Penny's building at 19th and Chester now sits.  You drove down palm lined asphalt road and about half way down turned east between the trees onto the dirt road we lived on.  About a third of the way donw that palm lane you could turn into what was then the Norwalk Bulk plant where they loaded tankers with gasoline.  We never thought a thing about it since oil derreks, tanks, and sumps were all around us.  The bulk plant and tall storage tanks are still there as are the houses my uncle moved in after they came west to move next door.  My home is gone and there's a trucking yard there now.

Anyway, I grew up there, went all 8 years at Fruitvale Elementary (now Vista West) and raised my kids in that neighborhood the first few years of their lives.   Motopoet can tell you all the horror stories about the trouble they used to get into out in the "boonies."  Myself?  I was a good girl.  0:-)  See the halo?

Now just look at all you know about me.  LOL.  A country bumpkin.

Audrey, I never went to Roasedale School.  They were arch rivals of Fruitvale and mine was the only Fruitvale stop on the Rosedale bus to BHS.   I was miserable..lol..they hated me and were mean.  They'd spread out so I couldn't find a place to sit and made my life hell until I could drive myself to school.  Weren't we all so silly with school rivalries?  Like it made us all different.  Gotta say though, those EB bad boys were ....well..they just were mmm mmm mmm..lol.  I married one of them.

Was the appliance store the one in the picture?  When I was growing up it was Griffins Market.  My grandad used to send us kids there to get him a quart of beer.

I was only at Rosedale a short time.  I was at several schools between K-4 a short time.   Following Crops ya know.

 Anyway, we lived in a tiny, rundown place on Rosedale HWY.  I pass by it sometimes and yeah, it's still there.  I only have two memories from that time (both bad).  So I don't think about them, if I can help it.

1) What occupations and/or jobs have you worked in?

Lawnmower, painter, burger flipper, doodlebug, medical biller, baseball player, engineer, project manager, consultant, Assistant to the Domestic CEO.

2) Have you always lived in Kern County? If not, where have you lived or do you currently reside?

Born in OK, but not a Sooner fan, go Irish.  Grew up in Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Indiana.  Currently reside in my house.

3) If you've had formal education beyond High School, what were your primary areas of study?

Engineering, Business, Process Safety.

4) Where have you traveled?  What is the favorite place you've ever been?

US, Canada, Mexico, French Polynesia, Sea of Tranquility.  Favorite place is the Big Horn Mtns of Wy.

5) What kinds of books do you find yourself reading the most?

Home improvement, conservative politics, cooking, woodworking, aviation, space exploration,  modern and WWII military, baseball.

6) What are your hobbies , what are you good at, what are your talents?

Woodworking, gardening, scale modeling, RC aircraft, hiking, camping, watching baseball, fishing, yelling at the kids, plane spotting, map reading/cruising google earth, baiting liberals on the internet.

7) If you had to pick up to 5 subjects/areas/issues that you feel the most well versed in, what are they?

Proper pitch selection, aircraft identification, project planning,  route finding, baiting liberals on the internet.

Ron, no wonder why we think like.  I bet you even work in the same industry.  Good to meet you.

1) What occupations and/or jobs have you worked in?
Finance, Management, Accounting, IT.  If any of you have ever owned a business, you realize you do a little bit of just about everything!

2) Have you always lived in Kern County? If not, where have you lived or do you currently reside?
I grew up here but lived a few years in Davis, about ten years in Sacramento & about three years in West Hollywood before moving back here.

3) If you've had formal education beyond High School, what were your primary areas of study?
MBA, Bachelors degrees in Managerial Economics & English with minors in History & German

4) Where have you traveled?  What is the favorite place you've ever been?
Europe (Germany was my favorite place), the UK, Mexico, Hawaii, many of the western and southern states and into the nooks and crannies of California.  My favorite placeto visit - probably Hawaii because I got to live there for a year.  It was beautiful and as close to a spiritual and idealic setting as I've encountered thus far.  I think my favorite place overall though is right here in California, in the redwoods or on the coast.  If you take the people away most of California is beautiful.

5) What kinds of books do you find yourself reading the most?
Fantasy (CS Lewis, Tolkein), old Science Fiction (Jules Verne, H.G. Wells), American literature (Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald).

6) What are your hobbies , what are you good at, what are your talents?
Photography, movies, computers, astronomy, gardening, reading, automotive, camping, travelling.  I'd say I'm best at computers & photography (which I love), camping, books and movies are a great way to unwind, astronomy fascinates me, gardening is fun if it's not too hot and I like tinkering with automobiles because I like solving problems and getting my hands dirty.

7) If you had to pick up to 5 subjects/areas/issues that you feel the most well versed in, what are they?
Technology / Literature / Movies / Food / Travel

1) What occupations and/or jobs have you worked in?
I've never had a real job. I stay home and take care of the animals and garden for my parents when they're too busy working and doing other things. I'm working on the job thing...maybe...

2) Have you always lived in Kern County? If not, where have you lived or do you currently reside?
I'm not ashamed to admit that I've always lived here. I love Bakersfield, unlike all of my friends and kids around my age. The only thing I really don't like about Bakersfield is all of the punks who moved here from Los Angeles, etc., because it was cheaper; they trash us like we're hillbillies and act like they're better than us. I went to high school with a bunch of those punk kids.

3) If you've had formal education beyond high school, what were your primary areas of study?
I'd rather not talk about it. I was supposed to go into journalism, because apparently it's the perfect career for me, but I've decided I don't think I actually want to go down that road.

4) Where have you traveled? What is the favorite place you've ever been?
Outside the country, seriously, I've been to Canada for one day. My parents took us up to Washington to visit my grandpa, and when we got there we jumped on a ferry and spent a day in Canada. Then we went back to Washington and that was it. The year before that, they took us to Yellowstone, and I really enjoyed that trip. I've been to Philadelphia, which was an awesome city. I've been to St. Louis for a couple of days and toured a Purina Mills farm where they raise animals, test their animal feed and create it or whatever. That was really cool. In between all that, I've been here, there and everywhere around California and a few other states.

5) What kinds of books do you find yourself reading the most?
Most often, I think, I find myself reading books about English, grammar and journalism. I asked my mom for the Grammar Girl book for my birthday. I got Eats, Shoots & Leaves for my high school graduation. I also got a copy of Strunk and White from my journalism teacher. I bought a copy of the Concise Guide to Copy Editing when I was at a journalism convention junior year of high school. Oh, and when I'm bored I sometimes like to flip through my dictionary and read it...

6) What are your hobbies? What are you good at? What are your talents?
Well, I like photography; it's a hobby, but I can't say I'm a great photographer. I strive to be the best I can possibly be -- especially considering the limitations that come with my camera. I also like gardening, which is not quite normal for my age. I become giddy like a schoolgirl when I watch my plants sprout and continuously grow; the whole process is so intriguing to me that I can't help but continuously watch and think about new ways to perfect my gardening skills. I like anything that has to do with English, journalism, farming, ranching, etc. It's weird that I like two different things that completely clash; one works well in the middle of nowhere, and the other one requires running around in the city...

7) If you had to pick up to five subjects/areas/issues that you feel the most well versed in, what are they?
I'd have to say my strongest subject is probably English. Perhaps I could say that I know journalism pretty well, too. I think I know quite a bit about gardening for my age, and I sometimes give advice to friends and family who are also into gardening. I know a lot about buffaloes. Does that count? It's an area of expertise, right? Oh, yeah -- I'm an expert at finding ways to waste time on the Internet and screw around on different Web sites. I spend a lot of time of Facebook and Twitter, which is probably why I haven't been spending any time on here. But don't judge me, OK? I don't spend hours filling out quizzes like Cat and Bakoblue. :) (Only kidding! Don't kick me, OK?)

 Sooners bah.. Huskers bah.. Noles are where it's at.

The Noles have been out of the BCS for a while now.  That other Florida school has been grabbing all the attention, but we'll get'em this year.  I hope.

 The Noles have been out of the BCS for a while now

Not as long as you think.  Last BCS game we played was 2006 in the Orange Bowl against Penn State.  We lost in triple OT.

We're making a comeback.