Weedpatch Camp (aka Sunset Labor Camp)
Metal migrant shelter
James Gregory, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California (Oxford, 1989): “The Okie subculture survives today. It is most apparent in the San Joaquin Valley, where so many of the Dusty Bowl migrants made their homes.”
Weedpatch Camp, seasonal housing
Weedpatch Camp, community hall
Trout’s, 805 N. Chester
Pumpkin Center Barn Dance, south of Bakersfield
Don Rich’s grave, Hillcrest Cemetery
Buck Owens’ mausoleum, Greenlawn SW Cemetery
Eat
7up, east of downtown
Treehouse, Arvin
Marilyn Novell 