I am really enjoying your "Lost Treasures of Bakersfield" postings and blogs.  I was raised in Oildale & Bakersfield, late ' 50s & early ' 60s. 

Watching the elegant red & silver Santa Fe "San Francisco Chief " passenger train arrive & depart Bakersfield at the Fst. depot.  Chasing the Southern Pacific's "San Joaquin Daylight" out of town near Union Ave.  The big "wig-wum" wood burner on Union at Kentucky.
 
 Going to Meadows Field on a hot summer day and watching the classic propeller driven Convairs & F-27s of United and Pacific Airlines.  Getting a haircut by Bob Larimer at Meadows barbershop.  The bar at "Freddies at the Skyway House." Sitting on the red brick  fence out there..........
 
Do you recall Chester Market, the tunnel underneath N. Chester and the Highland Bar?  Swimming pool at N. High School?  Walking barefoot to get an Ice cream at Baker Drug?  Wayne's Dairy, the milkman coming to your door and the Helm's Bakery panel truck with it's Hollywood Wolf Whistle?  The chocolate macaroons were great!
 
Remember E.N.T. Dr. Charles Stewart M.D. on 17th st.  Also, Dr. Stanton M.D. on Truxton Ave?  I had my tonsils taken out by Stewart in 1958 in his office.....ouch!  And, Flynn Ambulance? 
 
Ah yes, the delicious brownies at Smith's Bakery and shopping at the Green Frog market on Alta Vista.  And were you at the Rice Bowl and Bill Lee's Bamboo Chopsticks who used V.W. buses called "Flying Chopsticks" to deliver the food?  Also, the Pagoda on 18th st?  Remember the Christmas parade and the Padre Hotel?  Also, Tops Restaurant and the mezzanine at Brock's Dept Store?  Also, Fedway, Sears and Weill's? 
 
We had a 1952 Plymouth, no air conditioning and a "three on the tree" shift.  How we survived without air conditioning, I don't know.........we were tough back then!  The train at Hart Park was a miniature of the Southern Pacific "Daylight" steam engine. 
 
Yes, I recall meteorologist Marge Styles very well.   I used to like the sound her grease pencil made on the glass board as she wrote backward temperatures for Kern County cities.
 
Walking to Col. Nichols school from our home in N.E. Bakersfield and recall those cold, foggy, zero visibility mornings!  We didn't have snow at Christmas but the tule fog made the colored lights look grand.  Urners Chrysler-Plymouth where my father bought a 1961 "Fury" with a huge 396 cui. V-8.  
 
I enjoy reminiscing however it may give away my age.
 
Gary Plomp, from Gilroy