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Not two or three hundred thousand dollars, but ten thousand dollars was the price of an average, new, three bedroom tract home in the 1950's Bakersfield.
My wife and I had spent our first three years of marriage moving into and out of...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 09:20:49 PDT
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They have been here for 77 Christmas seasons.
In 1930 the "North Of The River Association" held a gathering near The Cobblestone Fountain in Kern River Park, (Hart Memorial Park). As a gift to the people of Kern County, they...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri Sep 21, 2007 13:09:06 PDT
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I worked part-time for Auto Photo for 13 ½ years, September 1978 to March 1992. Auto Photo was headquartered in London with its regional office in Costa Mesa. I was an independent contractor.
My responsibility...
Posted by Oildale93308
- Tue Sep 18, 2007 16:49:29 PDT
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For over 60 years, Bakersfield families did their shopping at Brock's Department Store. In the 1930s, for twenty-five cents, they could enjoy afternoon tea in Brock's tea room.
Photos like these are available for purchase from the...
Posted by sawoodman
- Mon Sep 10, 2007 16:49:01 PDT
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Veterans Day is just around the corner and I would like to share a few thoughts and memories with you. It is especially important to me because on that date in 1945 a young captain with a salute, a hand shake and a "thank you"...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri Sep 7, 2007 16:42:47 PDT
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My family hosted a buffet luncheon at the Doubletree Hotel on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007, in my honor. Two hundred family and friends attended. Five generations represented ages three weeks to 100 years.
Friend Bob Anderson honored me...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri Sep 7, 2007 12:14:08 PDT
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Anonymous user
- Wed Sep 5, 2007 13:17:35 PDT
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Planting thousands of shade trees was early Bakersfield's remedy to the hot summer heat and most land owners, along with Kern Land Company, planted them along canal banks to help control soil erosion as well as giving shade for their...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Tue Sep 4, 2007 12:26:16 PDT
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This is a photo of the Post Office and Padre Hotel from 1927. It's from the collection of the Kern County Museum.
Posted by sawoodman
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:54:50 PDT
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That is the title of an article I wrote last September excerpted from my novel Donnie and Jean, an angel’s story about two children circa WWII Bakersfield, but it came to me the subject needed a broader emphasis in light of things...
Posted by samheath
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:55:46 PDT
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The City of McFarland’s quaint history still rings true today. The community was founded as a result of one family’s journey, and as families still journey here, they celebrate small-town quaintness but with extended...
Posted by kathyrowland
- Thu Aug 9, 2007 11:58:59 PDT
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The City of McFarland’s quaint history still rings true today. The community was founded as a result of one family’s journey, and as families still journey here, they celebrate small-town quaintness but with extended...
Posted by kathyrowland
- Wed Aug 8, 2007 10:26:37 PDT
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Hi,
To anyone in Bakersfield listening,
My family is seeking to know my relatives and their past and other family. We are looking for any information including where Fred and Lucinda are buried, memberships,...
Posted by OneArtist
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:18:25 PDT
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There are a great number of individuals who were raised together at the Sunset Camp during the 1940s. Our parents would be picked up at the camp gate by trucks from DiGiorgio Farms. They would work all day long in the fields and the...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 13:38:51 PDT
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Bakersfield
The Police Building
By: Topo Gigio
Boy! who is running this city?
I tell you, they sure know their business
I’m impressed at their ingenuity
They have placed the Police Building in...
Posted by topogigio
- Fri Jul 6, 2007 15:14:08 PDT
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John and Dave bumped into each other one morning waiting for their first bus to kindergarten nearly 47 years ago on a sunny September morning in 1960. This was to start a long and fast paced life of laughs and triumphs for these...
Anonymous user
- Mon Jul 2, 2007 15:57:51 PDT
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I had an aunt Louise Redman. She may have married and we were not aware of married name. My father recieved news in 1989 or 1990 that she had died in an accident on Tehachapi Pass. It seems she was trying to elude police, or trying to...
Posted by BarbaraRedmanPratt
- Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:20:26 PDT
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TEHACHAPI, Calif. – It’s not exactly camping out under the stars. It’s more like camping out with the stars.
The historic old Noah Beery Jr. ranch in Hart Flat is opening its rustic gates to the inaugural Adventure...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri May 25, 2007 18:06:50 PDT
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The Sebastian Indian Reservation
By Jeff Nickell
The earliest explorers and settlers from Mexico, Spain, and the United States found Native Americans already on the land that would later become Kern County. The...
Posted by kerncountymuseum
- Tue May 22, 2007 10:22:12 PDT
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From living in a dirt floor cabin near Caliente California, Eleanor Hulda Calhoun became a world famous star of the theater and a Princess in The Kingdom of Serbia.
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It...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri May 4, 2007 14:00:14 PDT
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The Wasco High School Agriculture Department and FFA was formed in 1931 with Mr. J. L. Fiddler as the instructor/advisor. The program had 13 students at the time. Through the past 75 years, Wasco FFA has enjoyed countless...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:52:31 PDT
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As a young man in Kansas and Oklahoma, I have memories going back to our ranch on the Beaver River in Oklahoma, just after the start of the Great Depression.
My parents moved into town so that we kids could be closer to school. This...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri Apr 13, 2007 16:46:44 PDT
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I was born in Bakersfield and lived in the area until 1957 when my family moved to Missouri and I briefly visited the city when passing through in 1982.
An uncle (Dick Redman) recently died and a friend sent me the link to his...
Posted by BarbaraRedmanPratt
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 14:42:58 PDT
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