Semper Fi

 Big, Big, Love

"Mr. Cracker Barrel, Are You taking me of your walls. I posed for Norman Rockwell; I'll have you know."

Shame On You, CB, I'll make my own meatloaf, mac, my own biscuits, and reacquaint myself with the old country charm of my own habitat from now on.

PLUS:

Steak 'n Shake slams Cracker Barrel CEO for eliminating 'old-timer' from logo: 'We take pride in our history'

    Sure as (Sharpe)shootin' -- 1983

 Merle and Leona

 Book it...

 Rose Lee Maphis, Gene Moles, Billy Mize

 SEE IT..

It's out now in special super-duper edition that will run you 70 to 99 smackers, depending, but well worth it.

Lawrence of Arabia limited edition 4K UHD steelbook (60th anniversary)

 

It's For Real -- Beef, Bacon Beer, Beans, the Great American Diet. Where are you, Bobby Kennedy?

 Flying Burrito Brothers

 (I guess all the good names were taken)

Actually a fave of mine back in the beginning, name and personnel changes all

 Pretty Boy Floyd, 1934

 Yes, this is all bird -- Blue crowned pigeon

Streets of Bakersfield -- does it matter the video was shot in Delano

Feed The Crave -- La Tapatia

I, to this day from the '70s, much crave the chili verde burrito from this place in the alley off Baker and I believe Williams streets in Bakersfield.

...

 Steeping with irony, photojournalist Dorothea Lange

Lange took a few different photographs of this sadly ironic billboard with families camped behind it for some limited shelter.

Creator(s): Lange, Dorothea, photographer

Title: Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California

Date Created/Published: 1938 Nov.

Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-018619-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b32706 (digital file from original neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs.

 Oiltown

 I have this in B&W framed -- North Carolina 1939 Old Country Store

Another, Oklahoma 1940

     Sad, Sad, Note, But Time Marches On, if you'll pardon a cliche...

                                 KMPH.Com

Bakersfield High School -- its marching band performed in the Rose Parade in 1950, '51, and '52. Based on the name of the movie on the marquee indicates this is 1951.

      Santa Fe Super Chief -- Please don't take my Kodachrome away

 Be there, if you can

Don's Forget Jo'Berg

Kern County of Old

 Passed by many times

 

This is a shot of Bob Wills with some of the early Bakersfield Sound guys at Bakersfield High School's Harvey Auditorium around 1953. They guys on the right of Bob were Texas musicians traveling with Wills along with Louise Rowe when they toured California in 1952 -1953. Top Row, left to right, Tommy Hays, Billy Mize, Cliff Crofford, Jimmy Thomason, Bob Wills, Playboy singer Bill Choate, unknown, Playboy drummer Jack Greenback . Bottom row, left to right, Ralph Yaw, Cousin Herb Henson, Johnny Cuvellio, Louise Rowe, Cousin Ebb Pilling, Ferlin Husky and Thad Buckley. Both Thomason and Henson had local country music TV shows in Bakersfield and Cuviello ended up as the drummer (after his stint with Wills) for Bill Woods and his Orange Blossom Playboys ( which also included a young Buck Owens on guitar around 1955) at the famous Blackboard Cafe. Photo by Roundtree Photography/Bakersfield, CA

NOTE: The one on bottom far left is definitely not Ralph Yaw. I believe I can factually identify but it will take some thought and searching, products I currently have little of.

 

Gone With Everything...

 Meet 'n Greet Bakersfield

  

 1940 East Bakersfield

                                                                 1989

Buck Owens and the Buckaroo first at  Fillmore West (San Francisco, CA), Oct 11, 1968

   Microwave Tower, Guthrie's Cafe, '58 Ford Edsel

                                  1960

 1970s Bakersfield

 Hag Tag

 Track overload

     Kern Junction Tower Interchange Point Bakersfield California Vtg Mag Excerpt

 From his Sirius XM radio show

                    Jimi Hendrix poster

Bakersfield Kountry Komics -- pages from early 1973 issue

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