If you Google “Basque baseball players” you would be hard pressed to find a local grown Bakersfield gizona (Basque for “man”), our own Bernard “Frenchy” Uhalt. Although he played briefly as a professional baseball player, he was considered a legend in the Pacific Coast League, and played for Hollywood, San Francisco, Oakland Oaks, and Milwaukee […]
Oct 16 2014
Old Town Kern
Welcome to OldTownKern.com, a website dedicated to capturing the history of East Bakersfield. Old Town Kern is centered, from north to south, on Baker Street with Sumner Street at its epicenter. Originally it was named Sumner after the local judge and mine owner Joseph W. Sumner. Sumner would be renamed Kern City before becoming East […]
May 2 2014
Memories of Handball at the Noriega Hotel
By Pierre Igoa — I’ll never forget that Sunday afternoon at the handball court at the Noriega Hotel.
Mar 1 2014
Video: Noriega Hotel
The Basques have a long history in the American West. A great many immigrated from Spain and France to tend sheep around the Sierras and Rockies, and today you can find pockets of Basque culture wherever there were once a lot of sheep. The Basques who came to Bakersfield typically arrived by train, and they’d […]
Hello, welcome to my weblog! My name is Domingo IGOA and I'm a pioneer of OLD TOWN KERN.
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