Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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(Continued from the August 2, 2014 issue.) In my husband’s stories involving some tales of the Old Corps, I ran onto an article about a simple galvanized steel G.I. bucket that was standard equipment for a Marine Boot. I recalled they were part of our furnishings in the Quonset Huts also. How could I have left that out of my story? I never used ours for when it was filled with water it was too heavy for me to lift. I surfed the internet looking for a good photo but they all look flimsy and the s...
Tehachapi was once a vast, spacious valley with tall waving grasses, ample wild game and running streams. Magnificent oaks grew in profusion along with pine and fir. With the Tehachapi Mountains to the south and the tip end of the great Sierra Nevada Range to the north, the valley in between was blessed with pleasant summers and enough rain and snowfall to grow any food needed. Although the vast Mojave Desert was located just over the Tehachapi Range, it didn't seem to intrude upon the ideal...
We all, on occasion, make a visit to a cemetery and in this time period we find most of them well maintained and lovely. In years past Tehachapi had no perpetual care and both the eastside and westside cemetery locations were in a sad state with weeds overgrown and a real danger of snakes, because of this situation many of the older Tehachapi pioneers are buried in Bakersfield; the families having been unwilling to place their loved ones in such a state of disrepair. There are several small...
In the early part of the 20th Century the little community of Tehachapi and surrounding areas were dotted with orchards, fields of grain and farms. Tehachapi boasted a population of 600 souls. I am not sure if those living on the outlying farms were counted in that census or not but since there was no Golden Hills, Stallion Springs or Bear Valley Springs communities, the extra population from those outlying farms would not have increased the number dramatically. Tehachapi Valley, Brite's Valley...
Some years ago, my longtime friend, Dick Johnson, when he was Editor of The Tehachapi News, called me and asked me to tell “Gracey,” my husband, to write up some of his Marine Corps experiences to print in the paper. My husband, Doyle, didn’t need a second invitation and for several years he would write something up every few weeks. I would edit them for spelling and punctuation flaws; something he didn’t like to bother with, and my old school friend, Dick, would print them. People seemed...
Members of Cub Scout Den Number Three, their Den Leaders and helpers spent a memorable evening on Dec. 17 at the Veterans Memorial Hall greeting Veterans who attend the Air Stream Classes and serving to them a chili dinner. Meeting the vets with a snappy salute were Cub Scouts, Jack Schuyler, Jake Schuyler, Matt Burke, Noah Cazares, Ernest Cazares, William Small, Ben Small and Christian Rodriguez. The boys also performed a skit for their audience and then passed out treats. Laura Small was on...
(I wrote an account of the 1932 flood over thirty years ago for the Tehachapi News. I was lucky to find someone who had been in Keene when the waters washed people, houses and even buried a Santa Fe Engine as well as washed a Southern Pacific engine off the tracks. I carefully kept notes after talking to Walter Hicks, who was in Keene during the whole thing. I have not added anything to enhance the story; only the facts told me at that time by Walter Hicks, Laura Ramos, Bob Freeman, Bud...
