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Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:15AM PDT Featured Albums |
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Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:15AM PDT Featured Albums |
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Bakersfield December 28, 2011 |
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| Driving past a refinery near where I grew up. | This is parked outside Meadows Field, the Kern County Airport. |
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| Down the street a ways from my house. Behind it (off to the right in this picture) is a few million square acres of oil fields. |
There used to be an old jet on a pedistal outside the airport on this spot. Apparently its owner wanted it back. This one is ok, too. |
| Sam Lynn Ball Park | Former home of the Bakersfield Dodgers. |
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| Now it's the home of the Bakersfield Blaze. I'm not sure who they are affiliated with. But the old days with the Bakersfield Dodgers were fun. They sucked so bad. It was Single A baseball, so anybody that showed any talent got shipped off to Double A real quick. I once saw a guy hit a triple, then get picked off third base protecting the guy on first. Just classic. They left a gate open the day we went by. We walked in and took these shots. Don't tell... |
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| Apparently they did win a couple of times. :-) |
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| The Clock Tower at Pioneer Village. | Garcis Circle. |
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| This clock tower has moved around a bit, so I'm told. Currently it lives at Pioneer Village, the Kern County Museum. A lot of Kern County history is there. Oddly enough. |
This is Father Garces. And a sign for PG&E and GET (public transit). And a one way sign. I'm glad they put all that up in front of the statue. |
| Chester Ave., the main drag. | The Padre Hotel. |
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| Chester Ave. The main street in Downtown Bakersfield. This picture doesn't really do it justice. It's much more... well... maybe it does do it justice.... |
Some time way back, when I was very small, the city told the owner of this hotel that he had to do something to comply with local ordinances. Something to do with the fire system, I think. Anyway, he didn't want to do it, so the city shut him down. For decades this building had protest signs in all the windows bemoaning the city council. It looks weird to me without them. |
| The Fox Theater. | This is painted on a building down the street from the Fox Theater. |
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 This was one of those old Art Deco theaters, with a screen a quarter mile wide. It was great! We saw all kinds of movies here way back when. Eventually it was split into multiple screens, and I don't know what it looks like inside today. But it was way cool way back. Way. |
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| I thougth this was cool. I don't remember it from my youth. So I guess it's newer than, oh, 35 years or so since I've been downtown. |
| Vests Drugs, "19th and Chester in the center of the town!" | And some oil fields! |
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| Vests Drugs was famous. They had a commerical that ran all the time on the radio. I may have been in it twice. |
The oil fields across from my house. Well, and down a block or so. Next time I'm there I'll get pictures of the big fields. (I know, whoo-hoo, huh?) |
| Bakersfield High, my Mom's alma mater. | The theater at BHS, Harvey Auditorium. |
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| When we headed out to take pictures, my mom told us to go by BHS. So we did. It was open, too, which I thought was odd. My high school (North!) has been fenced in for years. Maybe the downtown crowd is more respectful than the Oildale crowd. Which is odd, since from where we took these pictures you can see half a dozen bail bond places. |
Harvey Auditorium. I know I've been in there, performing and watching shows. Yeah, I was a theater kid all through junior high and high school. If I'd kept at it, I coulda been famous. But the people that were really serious about it were kind of... scary... so I went other ways. |