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Ben Armstrong's Shell Service at the corner of Avenue 196 and what later became the Orange Belt Highway in Strathmore, CA, is shown in this 1934 photo. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Baird)

This photo shows an airplane flying low over W. R. Spalding Lumber Company in Strathmore, CA, in 1934. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Baird)

Football players from Strathmore Union High School and Exeter High School, both in Tulare County, CA, mix it up football game, probably about 1940. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Baird)

This was the campus of Porterville Union High School, Porterville, CA, as it appeared from the air in 1936. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Baird)

This flume, shown where it crossed the Camp Nelson Road east of Springville, CA, carried water for the Springville community. (Photo courtesy of Alma Manlove)

This is the Camp Nelson Lodge, in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, as it appeared in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

This is the Camp Nelson Lodge, in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, as it appeared in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

The swimming pool at Camp Nelson, in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, is shown as it appeared in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

This one lane road carried traffic to and from Camp Nelson in the Sierra mountains east of Porterville, CA, in the late 1930s. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

This photo of a railroad depot scene in Porterville, CA, was taken in 1910. The postcard was addressed to the grandmother of the wife of the photo contributor. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)