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...
It 1950, when I began living in the Southland, it was, and still is, 200 miles from Oceanside, California to Tehachapi and if I had a dollar for every time I have made the trip I would have a comfortable amount. At first, our trips consisted of getting into my husband’s 1947 Buick Roadmaster and taking off. It was a lovely car; one that he acquired during his bachelor days while still an Enlisted man in the Corps. Highway 101, between the two points, at that time, was a three lane affair. The mi...
