Oildale

Hello.

I'm still getting use to the humor of Bakersfieldians. "Oh you have to check out Oildale." Yeah, about that.

This photo probably says it all. Notice the price of gas when this station was demolished. Oh for those days. Sadly the images don't get much better.

History Oildale was founded in 1909 when Samuel Dickinson subdivided his land.[3] The first post office opened at Oildale in 1916.[3] Most of the original U-2 spy planes flown out of Groom Lake were built at a secret factory in Oildale disguised as a tire factory, just west of Meadows Field Airport on Norris Road.

I found some trains outside a cotton mill.

Make a great day already!!!