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photo courtesy of The San Joaquin Valley Digitization Project

Okay, since I’ve been getting some positive feedback regarding the History tid-bits, here’s another one. Again I don’t have much information, but I thought this photo was really interesting because you can clearly see the Chinese dragon. The photo was taken in downtown Bakersfield circa 1896-1907.

Guess those rumors of a China Town in Bakersfield were real after all.