This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
BRIEFS From The Past Highlights and Visits
A compilation of past social notes reports summer trips to Pismo in 1931, dinners in Bakersfield in 1931, a 1924 sale of the Herman Manhold ranch for cotton gin plans, a 1925 surprise birthday party in Oklahoma, and Easter 1925 at Mrs Wood Stone's home. Additional items include July 1941 fishing trips to Kernville, visits to Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo, July 1941 Balboa vacation, a 1938 baby born in Kern General Hospital, and a September 1937 weekend in Mountain View.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Manhold
Santa Fe
Shafter
Cormack and Fowler
Venona
Virginia Stone
Walker
Jack Fry
Wood Stone
P. A. Schmidt
Pismo
Morro Bay
San Luis Obispo
C.’ H. Stroms
John Stevens Miller
Kern General Hospital
Ivan Thomas Harques
Robert Carter
Mountain View