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J.C. Penney, located on Chester Avenue between 20th and 21st streets, with automobiles parked at entrance

Service station, with drive-in restaurant labeled "Fountain Service;" located at Baker Street

Ken's Burgers, a walk-up fast-food restaurant, with two customers; showing prices and various items on menu; located at Niles and Mt Vernon.

Shows airplane marked "Kern County Air Service, Amos Collins, Pilot." Air mail service to Kern County began in 1927.

Kern County Courthouse, built 1911, located at Truxtun and Chester. It was torn down in 1953 and another courts building constructed on the site.

Shows staff and customers at food stand, buildings, at old fairgrounds on North Chester Avenue, later superceded by Kern County fairgrounds at P Street

Front view of Kern County Jail, which once stood on Truxtun Avenue. The building also housed a branch of the Kern County Library. Mr. Fay D. Jones was in charge of the library.

Kern County Jail, with three men in front of building; this jail was located at the corner of 16th and Eye Streets and was in use between May 1894 and December 1915

Kern County Land Company buildings; larger structure is probably a bunkhouse, as it is almost identical to the company's bunkhouse at Poso Ranch; facility was located Southwest of Bakersfield

Children, with adult, beside bookmobile stopping at Red Rock School