Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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This week I found an article in a 1957 copy of the Tehachapi News that had reprinted an article from the Fresno Bee in my mom’s files. The article was written by Leo Dollar, following a tour he took of the Tehachapi Valley’s seed industry. At that time Tehachapi was certified as one of the primary seedgrowing areas in the United States. Dollar wrote “This little mountain community, snugly bedded in a cool valley 4,000 feet above the San Joaquin Valley, is demonstrating for the agricultural world the old saying that good things come in small...
Digging around in my brother Bill Deaver’s cupboards in his garage, I found some more of my mother Marion Deaver’s “stuff”. In one box was a 1960 copy of the Mojave Desert News, then owned by Bill and Milt Smith. I always enjoy looking through these old publications, because they were so “folksy.” Today’s news on the Internet has hard news, usually bad, gossip of famous people, or trash. Often print media includes local sports, weddings, and hard news about the local area – and sometimes attempts to “stir the pot” about local government. The 19...
"The wildflowers are blooming!" When my mother, Marion Deaver, exclaimed this on a weekend it meant we were headed for the desert to check out the wildflowers. My mom knew each of her favorite spots and which wildflowers would be blooming there in a year with "appropriate" rainfall. That meant that there would have to be fall rains to help the seeds germinate, and spring rains to bring them up and to bloom in all their glory. We would travel to "Nine Mile Hill", east of Mojave, to look for...
