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Yes, before television and drive in theaters dominated the local night life, old Bakersfield had some really great "hot night spots". Spawned by the heavily traveled Golden State Highway, motels and restaurants began springing up in the 30's when motorists traveling between Los Angeles to San Fransisco found our city a convenient all night rest stop and watering hole. The pioneer of them all was "The Bakersfield Inn" was built in 1929 and located at California and Union Avenues. This beautiful Spanish style motor hotel was the beginning of "motel row" or "Union Avenue Strip", as the area of the neon encrusted showplaces were called back then. The reason this strip of highway through Bakersfield was graced with these night spots was that Union Avenue was the only road through town in those days, it funneled all the north and south through traffic right by these businesses. Although The Bakersfield Inn was the business communities...
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