Wilt Chamberlain running high school track 1962

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Steve King

 

"Go to the basket and I'll toss you an alley-oop"

 

 The Great Bambino -- Babe Ruth

The Sultan of Swat

 

S-P Trainline magazine. Winter 2010 issue

Note: The bottom schematic is Ca. 1952

 Sandy Shaw was our catercorner neighbor on Short Street in Galena back in the day.

 Can't swim? Not even the Dog Paddle?

Bakersfield's country music Mount Rushmore

Among the dozens of Bakersfield country music personalities rises a top four that stand above the rest. As smooth as a Billy Mize ballad, and as crisp as a Don Rich guitar solo, these four will check all or most all of the boxes in determining the Mount Rushmore of Bakersfield country music. There are guidelines to affirm which four stand tall and make the cut:

--Historical significance: Did he/she help define a generation in the genre?

--Cultural impact: Was he/she also iconic in movies, commercials, or general conversations?

--Is there still a market for contributions by he/she?

--Scarcity/rarity: How well-known is he/she to the population? /How unique?

--Legacy: Is he/she recognized as an all-time great in the wide industry?

Okay, let's dispense with the elemental. Buck/Merle are obviously both in. That leaves just two. It's tough to figure considering the big drop-off from the aforementioned. If you say Dwight Yoakam, I want you place yourself on a bread and water diet for the next whole month.

I'm thinking. Stay tuned. I am leaning toward Dallas Frazier, Semie Moseley, or if it's just Bakersfield, Bill Woods, Herb Henson.

 pr 30, 2003#1

I am a "Galena Transplant" . I was born In 1943 at 1217 Madison to TWO VERY HAPPY PARENTS Eva ( Ross ) and Alfred Hatfield ( I was a BEAUTIFUL BABY !!! ) My Father dug himself out of the Mines by joining the Navy . I had my first Birthday Party on the Train enroute to Calif. ( thus a Galena transplant ) !! I spent most of my life in Long Beach until my Father retired from the service . We moved to the Sacramento area in 1958 and I graduated high school in 1962 . I remember some very pleasant trips to Galena with my parents and Brothers . One was in 1958 and the last time was 1962 . If I recall , my Grand Mother Jessie Ross was living there at that time ( 58 ) and my Grand Mother Doris Hatfield. We got to see the old Homestead and other relatives ( John & Thelma Stephenson , J.W. , Aunt Bessi & Uncle Gates Harold , Ma Palmer - helped raise my Dad, and Family friends Harvey & Katherine Jenkins , Dan & Meldrid Martin . I remember J.W. ( now in Riverton ) getting my younger brother Mike & I hooked on Chocholate Cokes at the Drug Store & the Great Hamburgers at the Dairy Queen . I still remember the juke box playing Purple People eater .. Had a lot of fun on the 4th. of July . REAL FIRE CRACKERS & CHERRY BOMBS !!!! W O W !!!!! I hope to make it back home one more time . I would like to take some pictures of Family Graves & get some paper work for Geneoligy . I will drop by now & then to say hello . Until then may God Bless all those that came from that SPECIAL PLACE CALLED GALENA !!! JIM HATFIELD

The first mention I'm aware of mentioning "The Bakersfield Sound." This recording doesn't meet that so-called genre but who's paying attention.

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 Best written and produced song with Bakersfield in the title on       independent label

Pandering offering to boss Buck

                            Horsey rip-off of "Tennesse Stud"

        Earlier releases remiss in not noting ERA as the distributor.

Somehow Don Hinson ended up as a co-writer on Kenny's song. A really great song.

The oldest business continuously operated under the same management in Galena is the Schmidt Brothers Hardware, operated by Albert and Will Schmidt which dates back to June 15, 1892.

I'm not sure when the above was written, but I do recall how I often accompanied my grandfather Martin inside the store in the mid-1950s. There was just one brother at the counter then. The other was either deceased or ill.

 

b/w Joplin Twist

 

 GOODBYE DOLLY

 

The Great Mickey Mantle

 

Legendary Tex Whitson and The Book at 28th MerleFest 2016 festival in Wilkesboro, No. Caro.

B-29 "Mammy Yokum"

The B-29 bomber "Mammy Yokum" in China during WWII. 

At one point this plane was piloted by Rolland Thomas Young, ASN #O684103, who was attached to 792nd Bombardment Squadron (H), 468th Bombardment Group, 58th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force on September 4, 1943, with rank of 2nd Lt. He was a captain in the Air National Guard (Indiana) after the war and served in the Air Force during the Korean War. Rolland Thomas “Rollo” Young went by Tom Young in the military. Young was a native of Akron, Ohio. In later years he was active in CBI veteran groups and a member of American Legion Post 244. He was former president of Our Lady's Rosary Makers, in Louisville, Kentucky. He passed away on November 23, 1997, in Louisville, Kentucky, survived by a wife, daughter, and two grandchildren.

During his wartime service, Young flew as Co-pilot to Major Van Horne for a time, then at the end of October 1944, Young became a Pilot and was assigned a crew, being: Lt. W. Nebbin, Co-Pilot; Lt. Al Cherney, Navigator; Lt. Ed Fiedler, Bombardier; Lt. Rich Fenstermacher, Flight Engineer; T. McNamara, Senior Gunner; Malen Powell, Right Gunner; J. Stick (or "Stich"), Left gunner; Ernie Halco, Tail Gunner; J. Lenau (or "Lenan"), Radio; and John Kirkland, Radar. This crew had just lost their pilot, Capt. Harold W. Barber, who had tagged along with the crew of B-29"Gunga Din" for a checkout flight, after just arriving from the US with the new plane and crew, and that plane had crashed one minute after a night take-off from Chengdu, China, on October 25, 1944, all souls lost. Thus Lt. Young stepped into the challenging role of being a new pilot with a young, green crew that had been through the shocking trauma of unexpectedly losing their first pilot just days before.

This crew "did not have a Radar Man with them when they arrived from the States, so John Kirkland, a well-trained man with combat experience, was assigned to this Crew. Lenau replaced Cpl. Bryce Martin. Their first flight together was on instrument and Pilot checkout for Young by Major Humphrey. He left the plane after all went well with the instrument approach and normal landing." With Young now established as Pilot, with practice bombs aboard, the crew practiced bombing a target in the sea just off the coast of India.

From Rembering Shared Honor website

 

MORONS UNITE FOR ANTI-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY! MAKE YOUR TUITION-PAYING PARENTS PROUD.

 

The escape of three convicts - John Anglin, Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris - from Alcatraz, including a suspected mystery boat seen on the San Francisco Bay the night of their disappearance, is detailed in the June 17, 1962, edition of the Oakland Tribune newspaper. (Photo by MediaNews Group/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)

FOR REAL

Ready for a night out: The Red-lipped Batfish

The Thorny Devil

The Lowland Streaked Tenrec

 

 Hag and Fam

    BRING BACK THE KERN

The Kern River, shown passing near Panorama Park in Bakersfield, is one of the southernmost rivers in the Sierra Nevada. A group of Bakersfield residents is seeking to replenish it as a centerpiece for the community.

Scott Strazzante/S.F. Chronicle

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Every wrinkle here is a song

 

Hobo Camp -- Santa Barbara, Calif., Historical Society

Merle Haggard and Strangers Band road camp

 The Lusty Men

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Stone? Rich, Owens, Holly, Wiggins

 Wayne "Moose" Stone, Rich, Owens, Jay McDonald, Haggard     

Sloppily clad Buckaroos

    Could Don Rich be holding a guitar cheat book? Nahhh. Not Don.

  

           Ronnie Sessions and Deke Dickerson

Photos below from mosriteforum.com

Photos below from mosriteforum.com

 

     Country Fried Pork Chops with Bacon Gravy