This clip was filmed by Tiffany Rocque, one of C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicle representatives who came to California and the Bakersfield area to film a series on Bakersfield. I did a couple of segments of the series on my great great grandfather, Colonel Thomas Baker, founder of Bakersfield. When contacted by C-SPAN I was asked if I knew someone who had a large personal library they could visit. Since I have a fairly substantial local history library that celebrates the history of the San Joaquin Valley of California, I offered my own library to them.
Bakersfield Arch
The Bakersfield Arch, at the old Bakersfield Inn has endured for nearly seventy years, as a landmark of Bakersfield. It was built at a cost of...
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