Top ten ways to tell you are in Bakersfield:

1. You have to explain to company from out of town what animal a "Tri-tip" comes from.

2. Drivers think a red traffic light is just a suggestion.

3. You think 6 tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful yard.

4. You notice your car overheating before you start it.

5. You no longer associate bridges or rivers with water.

6. You discover in July it only takes 2 fingers to drive your car.

7. You can make sun tea instantly.

8. You run your air conditioner in the middle of winter so you can use your fireplace.

9. People with black cars and upolstery are assumed to be from out of town.

10. You notice the best parking places are determined by shade instead of distance.

Now that is funny.

I drive through there regulary and visit the town each time we attend a Buttonwillow event.. I like Bakersfield. It reminds of West Texas Midland/SlowDeatha area.



B

Now THATS funny !!!

I was testing at Buttonwillow yesterday ... I especially like the one about the car overheating before you start it !!!

all i remember about bakersfield was the dead mummified cat right next to the swimming pool at the hotel and the semi-cute waitress at the ihop who told us "THE" place to hang out was the rockin-rodeo ...

Andy

Come on, no jokes about the smells of animal processing plants...
-Mike D.

Q. What do you say to a good looking girl in Bakersfield?

A. You're not from around here, are ya sweetheart?

I believe this is where they filmed American Graffiti.

Most of my Mom's sisters migrated to California from Oklahoma, one of which ended up in Bakersfield. I remember the shock the 1'st time we visited from Seattle and I burned my feet getting out of our truck in a parking lot.
Never a more apt named town.
Is there a town just down the way named Blastfurnace ?


Neal

It was filmed up where me and andyrew live. It is either Turlock,Ceres, or Modesto.

modesto, for sure. My ex schooled me on that.

Jen

Uhhhhhh......

Whats a Tri-tip???????

I could come up with a suggestion,

but it would probably be obscene...

Inquiring minds Just want to Know!

Ken

Ken, you've got to get out here!

A Tri Tip is about the most perfect cut of beef to BBQ. Not sure, but think it's the bottom part of a sirloin. Kinda triangular when trimmed.

WCC 2005 will feature same.

And I thought all the jokes were Fresno. Anyone remember that short lived TV show? Yes, it's our Fargo.

Tri Tip was made famous in Santa Maria Ca. not Bakersfield. It used to be a low cost cut of meat like Brisket untell the Famous Santa Maria Marninated barbeque became the hotest thing on the west coast. Now everybody features it and it is expensive as a good cut of steak

Bernie

It was filmed ABOUT modesto, it was FILMED in and around Santa Rosa.

It was about Cruzing McHenry.. Which is now deemed Illegal in modesto...

Doesnt stop us from making one run up and down every saturday night or so. Although it DOes come alive with ricers and hot rodders around 12pm... Asside from that, no one is ever cruzing anymore.. (Darn rules)

Andrew

Hey guys, "Tri-tip" is actually from the central coast. It is really called a triangle tip roast by the butchers. It couldn't even be found south past Ventura or north past Paso Robles until about '80. But it is probably one of the best B-B-Q meats around as long as you know how to cook it. Slow and Easy with plenty of

Ya it's the hot spot for ricers to meet up at. I got alot of friends that are into that crap.

Hey Head,
Sent you a pm on the location for The Wizard.

How do you tell if you are from B-Field?


If your idea of a nice front yard has the crushed rock and at least three project trucks put up on cinder blocks.
"I'm just waiting for my big tires to come from Pep Boy's!"

JT

I have been to the Pep Boys in Bakersfield. They always have those tires in stock!

I think it goes this way... "I'm just waiting till I can go back and get another Payday loan to get the tires!"

If I ever move to another house I'll invite you guys over for a house warming party. While you are here I'll have you help me take the wheels off of it.

Tanks for the Tri-tip explanation. Not familiar with that BBQ.

When I was living in the South (North Carolina) they taught me that pork BBQ is a very good way to go.

Take a whole hog, cut in half, put skin side up in a smoker at about 4:00 AM. Make sure temp never goes over 200.

Baste with sauce made from 1 gallon of vinegar, a buncha hot pepper flakes, and a little ketchup. Make 3 gallons.

Wait for the sun to come up. Salute the sunrise with tequila mixed with BBQ sauce.

Baste as required, monitor the fire and drink.

Flip the hog halves at about 1:00 (skin side down). Add more sauce as required.

Pig is done at about 4:00 in the afternoon. Sucker is so tender and moist you simply reach in, grab a piece of meat, shake the fat off and eat.

mmmmm....Pig Pickin............

Damn family is goin vegetarian

What's wrong with them?

Ken

(Zombie thread alert)

Man--those are painfully accurate!

And yes--I'm from there too!

Hey--any Bakersfield guys remember what the original Porsche Audi place was called up on the east side? (Not the current Porsche/Audi dealership)

Try being from McFarland (about 20 miles up Hwy 99 from Bakersfield). Going into Bakersfield was considered a "really big thing" back then, because they had a mall.

Blast from the past.. still relevant today...

I still don't like Bakersfield today.

You believe wrong. It was filmed mostly in SF and Marin County. The setting was supposed to be Modesto, a couple hundred miles north of Bakersfield. The filming sites are another hundred miles NW of that.

The Cap'n

Funny stuff.

I was in Bakersfeild in 1965 twice..first and last time. Cerritos 30, Bakersfeild 26, that was the first time. Joe Blake just about ended my year early! My second visit was the Patato Bowl against Boise, Idaho. Do you even host this any more? You never mentioned the FOG. We were scheduled a Saturday night game and had to play in the fog Sunday day... it never cleared. Fog was so thick you couldn't see more that twenty yards. Oh! Cerritos 42, Boise 12.

Seriousley, the closest I have been to Bakersfeild since then is Tehachapi.

11. Your McDonald's is two box cars.

That's Barstow!!








Seriously ....

What ever happened to Headrage aka Allen Moore ? Sold his six, then...

bought a Cheby with a Mad Man Muntz record player and became a looooooow rider!

There's a Porsche dealer in Bakersfield??

My cousins grew up in Bakersfield...Bake-tucky was always a funny way they described it.

As I understand, Bakersfield got huge with property values skyrocketing in LA (LA is not too far) but now they are hurting more than most, similar to Vegas.

Same thing...

That's "smoking". Barbecue, the real thing, is done over HOT direct heat, not some wussy fire somewhere next door ......................... And Tri Tip is the last choice of REAL Santa Maria Style Barbecutioners.

The Cap'n, cookin' like we did on the ranch.

I've always liked Bakersfield. We've always had family there, too, and I have enjoyed visiting. Was there just a week ago and will be driving through again Friday.

Besides, who doesn't like Buck Owens!

I am from Delano! Bakersfield was the place to go cruise, shopping or whatever.

-- brett

Home of the Sonic drive in , Chuy's eatery and West Coast Cash. When Famoso Dragstrip runs the old school front engine nitro rails, there is a main street pancake breakfast along with a second course of uncorked street cruising
This might be the last place on earth to hear/ see internal combustion after the Prius and EVs take over .
It cracks me up to see bathers in the run off water basins as you drive Hwy. 99 overpasses. Could be the infamous 'Dalers or '08ers !
Alan may need to chime in here
Marty

Must know what he is talking about, bought this car out of Bakersfield.

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Just to clear up any "Tri-Tip" questions. BTW most butchers east California will grind that cut for a "Sirloin Burger".

My gosh this thread was started in 2004! Tri-tip is good on the grill!

And Merle!

And Dwight!

...And Buck,and Johnny

and Frank Gifford!