I lived on a street that dead end at a cotton patch. Picked cotton, hard work. Kern County High school was renamed to Bakersfield High, my mother's brother's went there. My mothers parents and brothers moved all over to following the crops. My grandpa got a job as night irrigator at a cotton field in Shafter, had a house to go with it (camp). I have a lot of good memories of Bakersfield (growing up), my dad was a wild cater on an oil rig and he moved with the rig, but home base was our house in Bakersfield. Mom and dad built the house, they were living with my dad's mother until they got the house framed, a roof on. Then they used sheets for privacy and moved out. My first bed at the house was on a stack of sheetrock with lots of blankets for padding and cover. Bakersfield has changed a lot and I really don't miss it. I do go back to visit my relatives, my son lives in Techappi and I have cousins a aunt, and two uncles in Bakersfield. But I really didn't leave anything in Bakersfield. Now I do like Techappi, of course that is where my son, daughter-in-law and four of my grandchildren are. Could have something to do with it. Whitewolf ----- Original Message ----- From: "JACK CHILDERS" <jaxone1234@msn.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [BSChat] Megan's Law > Whitewolf, I have a Bakersfield connection. My father moved to Bakersfield after he and my mother divorced (once before I was born and again right after I was born). He married another woman and raised my sister in Bakersfield. I first went to Bakersfield when I was 14 or so. I have bad memories of Bakersfield. Too many cotton patches, potato fields, too many dairy farms. Went to Kern County High for a while. Moved all around Bakersfield area, Oildale, Shaftner, Pumken Center. My sister spent all of her childhood to adulthood in Bakersfield. > > Jack Childers in OKC > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Creative use of your delete key is encouraged. If you disagree with the subject, CHANGE the subject. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >