Kern River Surf Co: California, as We Remember It Kern River Surf Co is not just another California clothing brand. We create shirts, hats, and other apparel inspired by Bakersfield, Kern County, the Kern River, the oilfields, lost local businesses, and the...
KERN COUNTY — TROPICAL ENOUGH For years, Kern River Surf Co has been accused of exaggerating Bakersfield’s tropical qualities. The palm trees, the inland surf breaks, the yacht clubs, the tiki resorts, the alligator boards and the legendary warm-water barrels beneath...
Kern River Surf Co is not just another California clothing brand. We create shirts, hoodies, and other apparel, as well as art work, inspired by Bakersfield, Kern County, the Kern River, the oilfields, lost local businesses, and the wonderfully questionable history of...
The Forgotten Slopes of Escondido: A Mispronounced Legacy Long before it became a sleepy suburban enclave of strip malls and avocado groves, Escondido was poised to become the Aspen of Alta California. Or at least, that was the dream of Juan Gaspar de Dido, an...
Search for Truxtun Lake or Truxtun Lakes today and you will find plenty of sensible information. Fishing reports. Walking trails. Urban lake notes. The usual “yes, there is water here sometimes” commentary. Truxtun Lake is commonly described as a 28-acre urban lake...
The Glasnost Skate Exchange Moscow ↔ Bakersfield, 1991 When concrete diplomacy rolled on four wheels In the final, uncertain years of the Cold War, when borders were softening but nerves were still tight, few people imagined that a skateboard would become an...
Is This the Origin of the Truxtun Lakes Monster? Every legend has a photograph. This one surfaced quietly—an old, grainy black-and-white image showing a massive, armor-plated fish hauled onto a dock at Greater Truxtun Lake. Men stand around it in stunned silence. No...
The Story Perched elegantly above the sun-struck waters of Greater Truxtun Lake, its long pier stretching confidently into the blue, the Truxtun Lakes Yacht Club (TLYC) stands as a monument to a vision of Central Valley nautical life that is both improbable...
There was a time—maybe real, maybe just whispered about over campfires and canal banks—when the world's most glamorous airline, Pan Am, charted a course not just to Havana or Honolulu, but non-stop to Bakersfield and Pismo Beach. This was the age of jet-set optimism,...