Horse-drawn fire department hose wagon from about 1907, in Bakersfield Centennial parade; seated at front of wagon, beside man wearing hat, is Robert Prenter, a Kern county Assemblyman during the late 1990s.The parade was on January 10.
J.R. Albertson, left, and William John Martin, right, with their horses. The house in the background stood at Irwin and Elm Streets and was the birthplace of Charles F. Fuller, the first child born in Hanford. William John Martin, a wheelwright in…