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Wester Auto Hardware and Auto Parts Store and Biddle's Soda Fountain & Hamburger Stand on Main Street in Porterville, California. Several cars out in front of the buildings.

View of downtown Bakersfield; from the collection of Harlan Curnow

Shows destruction of Radio Electric dealer's brick building in Tehachapi after 1952 earthquake; from Clyde Johnson's collection

Man, woman and two children in front of Kings Laundry. Automobile nearby. Laundry opened 1910 and is still operated by Tagawa family member.

Men on large haystack unloading hay lifted by derrick. Wagons of hay and automobile nearby.

Southern Pacific Depot, Hanford

View of downtown Bakersfield, including automobiles; from the collection of Harlan Curnow

Shell gas station, sharing building with Sherry's store; located on Northwest corner of Roberts Lane and North Chester Avenue

Rubble after fire that destroyed Kutner-Goldstein department store, also called Emporium. Opera House in background.

Hotel Lebec, constructed 1921, at its peak mid-1920s through mid-1930s. It was burned down in 1971.George Haberfelde had an automobile business in Bakersfield in the 1920s.Sanctuary of the Pines was a tree preserve near Lebec.