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Valley Turbulence
The day began like any other day. The alarm went off, I got up and started my daily routine: make breakfast, wake up the boys and get ready for school and work. I dropped my boys off at South High School and went on to my job as a...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:34:48 PST
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The dust storm Christmas tree
This photo is of the huge pine tree that was uprooted and fell across our steel beams of our carport and we were left with a branch hanging into our ktichen. Since we had invited 40 family and friends for dinner, I just decorated the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:33:50 PST
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The big, red cloud
Being a Bakersfield native I remember dust storms, but nothing like that day. I got up before dawn that morning to go duck hunting with my good friend Dr. Stephen Newbrough. The wind was just howling as we left town and headed for the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:33:37 PST
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Dust Storm Memories
I was 9 years old when the dust storm hit.  School was called off, and the kids sent home early.  I spent the first hour peeling tumble weeds off our house and sending them down the street, laughing as they piled up in Tiffany...
Posted by swerd1 - Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:10:29 PST
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Arvin’s Great Disaster
A few days after the 1977 ‘Dust Storm’ I wrote this story of how our family survived that horrible day and the events that happened to us. We lived in Lamont and my husband and I worked in Arvin, he at the Arvin School...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:29:11 PST
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1977 dust storm was unforgettable
Remember the dust storm of December 1977? I don’t believe that anyone who lived through that could ever forget it. I was living in Taft then and the storm began on December 17th. Our neighbors and friends commented that we were in...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:21:51 PST
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Dec. 1977 Bakersfield Dust Storm
The power was off at our house, in the Hillcrest area, for four days. Our 6 ft. wooden fence, on one side of the property, blew down and lay flat on the ground. A neighbor’s asphalt shingle roof blew off piece by piece in long...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:15:26 PST
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Thanksgiving has many firsts
The first Thanksgiving holiday actually stems from the feast held in the fall of the year 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest in the new country they had inhabited....
Posted by citizenjournalist - Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:16:35 PST
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Dust Blizzard
No photos to share but vivid memories as if  December 20,1977 was yesterday. The density of blowing dirt and dust turned morning to dusk and our street lights came on at 9AM. Calls came from children’s schools telling...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 19, 2007 16:53:19 PST
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Driving in the dust storm — Maybe not such a good idea
I'll never forget  it. I was 22.  A few of my friends were at my apartment because  Bakersfield was virtually shut down and we were getting extremely bored. We  had the bright idea of going for a drive to see all the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Thu Nov 15, 2007 16:53:40 PST
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Dust Storm Memory as a 5 year old.
I was five years old when the storm hit Bakersfield.  We lived on the east side of town off of College and Oswell. I remember there was a sense of something not right from my dad.  He took me, mom , and my sister to my...
Posted by marcus29fan - Thu Nov 15, 2007 14:21:53 PST
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December 20, 1977
I remember driving to work in my yellow 1974 Volkswagen with my three year old daughter, Erin in the back seat.  I would drop her off at day care then head to work at a local collection agency on 18th street. The wind was blowing...
Posted by spoe - Thu Nov 15, 2007 14:19:51 PST
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That December Day
I remember the day so clearly and I was just 9 years old.  My mom had called my sister and I to make sure that we were getting ready for school.  Just as we were about to walk out of the house to walk our 2 blocks to school she...
Posted by tfromcal - Thu Nov 15, 2007 14:08:49 PST
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Do you recognize this bar?
Do you have any info to share about this photo? I'm guessing the photo was taken at an old timer's day because there are about two dozen people posing for the photo in a bar, and everyone is dressed in old fashioned attire. The main...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:27:18 PDT
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Delano Post Office, circa 1900
Posted by sawoodman - Fri Oct 19, 2007 09:28:37 PDT
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The Curse Of Bakersfield's "Reeder Hill"
In the 1850s, a small band of about 20 Yokut Indians lived on a hill that would have been now located between the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail yards and Mercy Hospital. After the flood of 1862, the Indian's food supply had been...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:16:13 PDT
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Pacific Islands no paradise
Army Sgt. Jack McCall fought at Guadalcanal, the Philippines and Okinawa. The letter was addressed to his wife, Helen, and toddler Dennis. Mrs. McCall was pregnant with Jim McCall, who submitted his dad’s letter. Sgt. McCall...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Oct 1, 2007 12:38:15 PDT
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Letter from a pilot
Robert Grenville Millar was a B-24 pilot who flew 35 sorties during 50 missions, according to his son, Todd Millar, who submitted this letter. After the war, Millar attended c After the war, Millar attended college and ended up in...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Oct 1, 2007 12:37:57 PDT
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Friends in war
The two letters at left are from 1st Lt. Ivan Osborne and Senior Chief Petty Officer John Kolstad, friends from Bakersfield. Osborne died in action on Majuro Atoll in December 1943, nearly two years after this letter was sent home....
Posted by citizenjournalist - Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:43:38 PDT
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Regardless of enemy, man knew the truth
Ernest C. Mooney was in the Army and served in the South Pacific, including in the Philippines and New Guinea. He died in 1988 in the San Joaquin Valley. The letter was addressed to his mother, Mrs. Ollie Mooney, and submitted by his...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Fri Sep 28, 2007 09:00:57 PDT
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Soldier paid ultimate price for country that interned his family
Pfc. Torao Hayashi, uncle of Bakersfield resident Sandy (Hayashi) Minner, fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army, a unit composed of mostly Japanese-Americans who fought in Europe during World War II....
Posted by citizenjournalist - Fri Sep 28, 2007 09:00:09 PDT
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1903 Bakersfield High School Football Team
1903 Bakersfield High School Football Team  Back Row: Erast Alsteen, Harry West, Lawrence Weill, Virgil Chittendon, John Shannon House, Clarence Faster Far Left: Mr. Lindsey (Referee) Far Right: Fayette Birch (Coach) Center:...
Posted by sawoodman - Thu Sep 27, 2007 09:10:07 PDT
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Buying A Home In The 1950s
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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The gift that keeps on giving
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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Article on 'Flash From The Past'
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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Afternoon Tea at Brock's Department Store
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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Made in the shade
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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View of the Padre Hotel in 1927
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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