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Cotton is King Festival parade along Chester Avenue. Wasco's float is square white vehicle at left center. Hotel Manchester is last building on right side of street;Grand Hotel is two buildings to the right. A drug store is on left side of street. A…

May 5, 1929, dedication of Kern River Park. Renamed Hart Park in 1947 for Kern County Supervisor John O. Hart. Related article appeared in the Bakersfield Californian May 6, 1929, page 1.Located eight miles Northeast of Bakersfield, on Alfred Harrell…

Alice Duarte, a leader in Delano's Mexican community, and City Manager Lou Shepard. Alice was secretary to Stu Goodman, manager, Delano branch, Bank of America. From the collection of Mel Baughman.

Dewar's Soda Fountain and Ice Cream, 1120 Eye Street, located between 11th Street and California Avenue

shows automotive shop operated by Benjamin L. Brundage, located on 18th Street; front entrance of Hotel Moronet just visible at far right

Front of picture labeled " me and my pal 'Dick,' " with full surnames included on back of photo. Several signs visible in store window behind the men.

Medical library of hospital then known as Kern General Hospital. Pictured: Mrs.Thella Winters, medical librarian; Dr.Albert Spohn; Dr.Lewis Sandridge; Carla Hamblet; Antonia Villanueva

Shows Dr. Strongin, who worked at Stony Brook Retreat, Kern County's tuberculosis facility. Picture was taken one year before the facility opened officially

Shows hotel and other businesses, on Green Street in Tehachapi, damaged by the 1952 Kern County earthquake

View of downtown Bakersfield at night; from the collection of Harlan Curnow