How to pronounce “bakersfield” in English

Bakersfield.

Bakersfield has very few apartment buildings because there's so much space to sprawl out.

Bakersfield's a good weekend time.

And Bakersfield is very similar to Louisiana and Mississippi in the sense that it is a predominantly agriculturally based town with loads of cattle farms, dairy farms.

Would Bakersfield come to mind?

If you go through Bakersfield and those same areas out there, you might as well be in that rural area in Georgia

So in Bakersfield, there isn't much to do.

or drive to Bakersfield, or drive over to Riverside, and do a hop or a show sponsored by the radio

It was in Bakersfield.

Is anybody from Bakersfield?

Male Presenter: Bakersfield sucks.

People in Bakersfield think differently than people in San Francisco.

They also grow lots of crops in Bakersfield, and I, in particularly, went to work for an oil company

because oil is also heavily prevalent in Bakersfield.

Who here has been to Bakersfield?

And the editorial in the Bakersfield paper last week said "there is a quietly growing movement brewing in the interior of America.

So you had one theater in Bakersfield.

And then when we finally shut down Bakersfield and moved on to Austin, we spent about six months

There are hardly any apartments in Bakersfield.

Lot of things we had done at Bakersfield were the origins for what we were gonna try to do at the Austin location.

2030 to 2033 between the cities of Bakersfield and Merced, which are pretty

My first rescue involved a small civilian plane flying to Bakersfield that crashed in the steep, snow-covered canyons in the mountains North of Ventura, killing two of the three people on board.

So on my way to Shell-- I was in Bakersfield, California, by the way, in the Central Valley.

And I go back to the first theater in Bakersfield, which , by the way, I didn't mention that.

And we were already making plans knowing that Bakersfield-- we could sense that Bakersfield was going to eventually truly fail-- that we were going

But also, in Bakersfield itself, a ton of new home construction.

So that's sort of how I define those days in Bakersfield.

We did the same thing we were doing in Bakersfield.

But what happened was I ended up moving to a place called Bakersfield, which I don't know if many of you are familiar with Bakersfield.

In fact, this was an editorial in Bakersfield about the book and Deb and I have done and saying that there is, city by city

About 90%, 95% of our carrots come from Bakersfield, California and in fields so vast they have to fly to them.

Filled up gas in Bakersfield?

Tim: we did actually reminisce about some of our favorite things about Bakersfield.

I think both of us could show everybody in this room a tremendous weekend in Bakersfield.

There were literally railroad tracks that divided the affluent and the poor side of Bakersfield.

So that's the money that we amassed to get out of Bakersfield.

Because by that hard scrabble work for two years and ultimately failing in Bakersfield, we learned a lot of things.

And the way I thought I'd introduce what we're doing is to read a quote from an editorial recently in the Bakersfield, California newspaper.

Those of you who have been there, will join me in saying Bakersfield is not the Marin County or Santa Monica of California.

And they're all mainly grown in one place, Bakersfield, California.

style of development is coming everywhere, even in places like Bakersfield, which is ground zero for drive-to qualify.

But it was on the wrong side of the tracks in Bakersfield also.

We had about 50 to 60 thousand dollars that we had pulled out of two years of hard scrabble work in Bakersfield.

And I think even when we were doing the theater in Austin, not just the Bakersfield theater.

So you have San Bernardino that has a massive intake, LA County, Bakersfield.

And in California, it's organizing in the Central Valley, in Fresno and Bakersfield, and Orange County.

Because he was born in Shafter, California, right outside of Bakersfield.

So this was, in fact, the last straw that took us out of Bakersfield.

when it was just, when we literally were a mom and pop theater back in Bakersfield and the 409 Colorado