Wild Wild West! Find Out All About Bakersfield
California.
Author: Tavis J. Cooper

One might think of Bakersfield, California as a remote and
simple town where working class families devote their lives to
tradition and self satisfaction. But according to the major
census sites and other observations, Bakersfield, California is
a workable area and one of the 'fastest growing of the larger
cities in the United States.'

After Fresno and Sacramento, for instance, Bakersfield is the
third largest inland city, equally workable economically
Bakersfield, California survive on agriculture and petroleum
processing (by way of one of the older oil spots, the 100 year
old Kern River Field) and the growing of such crops as carrots,
grapes, almonds, citrus, potatoes, and garlic.

The burgeoning yet still conservative Bakersfield, California
shows a 2000 population of 247,057 people with a median age of
30, a population which works the farm and the fields but also
earns its median income of between $39,982 and $45,556 in the
educational, health, social services, and retail fields
approximately 66% staying in town for work.

With ranging temperatures of between 40 and 100 degrees
throughout the year, Bakersfield, California also features
historic restaurants (such as Luigi's, Maitia's, Noriega's,
Pyrenees, and Woolgrower's) a popular series of sports (the
ever popular football, baseball, ice hockey, and soccor, as
well as the renowned motor sports which have a major following)
and world renowned country music, which, evidently, brought such
icons as Buck Owens and Merles Haggard to the area to create a
unique type of music they call the 'Bakersfield Sound.'

Bakersfield, California is also known well as being the
birthplace of Haggard, as well as of Detroit Lions' Brock
Marion, Detroit Tigers' Colby Lewis, Washington Redskins' Cory
Hall, Playboy's Rebekka Armstrong, and NASCAR's Casey Mears as
being the birthplace of Korn members as being the nearby locale
of the infamous deaths of policemen celebrate in The Onion Field
as being the home to such greats as US Supreme Court Justice
Earl Warren, country crooner Dwight Yoakum, and child star
Brandon Cruz, and as having a status which is mentioned,
described, defined, and alluded to in the artwork of everyone
from Henry Rollins to The Rolling Stones to Johnny Cash.

And, for those of us who have a simple understanding of
Bakersfield, California, we might credit our impressions
to Steinbeck, who show the town and its neighboring landscapes
in The Grapes of anger. At the same time, however, Bakersfield
has flourished, and has evolved from being the historical
establishment housed by Native Americans, then missionaries,
then gold miners and pioneers and Oakies living off the simple
land to a major city with major industry and development.


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