In early spring, 2007, I conducted a photography tour along the routes used by various people to reach the San Joaquin Valley of California, from Okies and Texans in the 1930s to the influx of Latinos in the latter half of the 20th Century.
The San Joaquin Valley, which is the southern two thirds of the Great Central Valley of California, is perhaps the richest agricultural valley in the world. It lies between the Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains to the east, and the Coast Range Mountains to the west.
We found a diverse range of subjects, from people to wildflowers, from animals to architecture, including the few building still standing at the Sunset Labor Camp, the place made famous in the John Steinbeck novel, Grapes of Wrath. Our explorations to us to the Central Valley towns of Bakersfield, Arvin, and Weedpatch, and into the Tehachapi Mountains, and along a variety of old highways and back roads.
Sunset Labor Camp 300 views
Cracked Window, Sunset Labor Camp 291 views
View at the Sunset Labor Camp 293 views
Cobwebs at the Sunset Labor Camp, Weedpatch, California 294 views
Summer Wear 292 views
Sheep is Shorn 298 views
Shearing Sheep 293 views
Waiting their Turn 293 views
Sheep Shearing Encampment 292 views
Martin Etchamendy, Basque Sheep Rancher 463 views
Cowboy near Lamont, California 318 views
Albertos Horse 303 views
The Good Life 445 views
Child and her Mother Near Keene 305 views
Lupine along Highway 223 305 views
Poppy with Honey Bee 78 views
Poppies Near Arvin, California 98 views
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake 77 views
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake 75 views
Chuckwalla 73 views
Turtle with Young Friend 75 views
Happy Bobcat, California Living Museum 76 views
Black Bear with Lunch, California Living Museum 74 views
Black Bear at the California Living Museum, near Bakersfield 71 views
Our Hosts at the Best Western 72 views
Renovation in Arvin, California 76 views
chickens.jpg 71 views
Caesar Chavez Memorial 72 views
Caesar Chavez Gravesite 68 views
Abstract Patterns on a Disc Machine 67 views
New Grapes 63 views
The Tehachapi Loop 63 views
Locomotive on the Tehachapi Loop 64 views
Tracks, Tehachapi Loop 60 views
Tehachapi Loop 61 views
Hello, Dolly! Actress Leslie Lane 70 views
Waitresses on Break, Basque Restaurant, Bakersfield 64 views
Zooming in on the Wool Growers Restaurant, Bakersfield 63 views
Neon Reflected in an Irrigation Canal, Bakersfield 62 views
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