Life in the Central Valley of California (1949)

[@trulyc56cw]

My Grandparents came here from Tenn on their honeymoon in 1910. They settled in Tulare & had 10 kids. My papa along with a friend hunted ducks. They would take the San Joaquin River to San Fran and sell them to the "fancy restaurants ". My Aunts worked in the packing houses. My Uncle s drove the haevest crops up & down the valley. My Grandma told us stories of life back then. She said it was very hard to put up fences because you couldn't dig 2 feet without hitting water. In 1910 water was everywhere. After the canals came in the water table lowered and the great Tulare Lake dried up.

[@BillyBoB_508]

Born in fresno,in my younger days i resented being born there. The older i get now i miss it greatly.

[@batman4329]

Same here and I rarely go back and visit. It’s was a great place to grow up but I had to leave to pursue my career. It’s kind of like living on an island.

[@ordinarypete]

As someone living in Fresno since 1990, you aren’t missing anything! This place is a 💩hole now. The whole Central Valley has changed.

[@cyberknife82]

It sucks in Fresno if you’re poor like any other city.

[@TheEsquad11]

You can have it. Not the same anymore.

[@EricPetersen2922]

@@TheEsquad11it’s done 😢

[@ericrodriguez4842]

Visalia native.. showing love to all my beautiful central valley !!❤🫡

[@nunyaaynunnahnahnunnunnunnah]

*holds nose* 🐄 💨

[@mannyj4751]

I had relatives there. Born in Hanford but moved to Bay Area😊

[@bradkoehler5814]

Born and raised Visalia since 81!

[@tru3sk1ll]

Shafter, CA here 1975 - 1985, and I was just there for Christmas

[@Littlepaw7]

Grew up there best childhood ever. Thank you to all the hard working farmers and crews that fed us all❤

[@SVmathfarmer]

And continue to do so❤❤❤

[@victorfernandes6323]

My family and I still farming in Oakdale. Nothing like growing your own food and raising your own animals.

[@NicoleBentley-xv5il]

Oakdale ❤ here too

[@salvadorpulido19]

Riverbank

[@spice1960]

We are neighbors from calaveras county 😊

[@victorfernandes6323]

@@salvadorpulido19 my parents are moving to Riverbank, right behind the new Costco👍🏼

[@victorfernandes6323]

@@NicoleBentley-xv5il Awesome! I love our town

[@CaliforniaForager]

born and raised in northern california & love my state

[@YouilAushana]

So keep the shit there please

[@Energia-977]

​@@YouilAushana Same to you.

[@forsakennihilist4524]

@@YouilAushanaunfortunately for you Americans have the right to live in whatever state they choose

[@jordanvannortwick9426]

@@YouilAushana one of the 50 states bothers this individual very much. He doesn’t like America if it includes California.

[@paulsanchez408]

Same!

[@tru3sk1ll]

My dad started his career here in the 1960s, just after this was made, he did row crops and table grapes for Superior farming, Sun world, I grew up in Shafter, CA outside Bakersfield, CA, and played in the grape fields and built tree houses - you can never go back, but I have stellar memories

[@xpoorman70]

My families are from Shafter, CA as well and I met my wife there

[@zippoamerika8794]

Generational farmer I’m so proud to be here in this valley Growing the best food For the world

[@SVmathfarmer]

Thank you for your service !

[@californiafarmin2145]

Corporate almonds, pistachios, oranges, cotton or grapes?

[@albertr96]

Thankful for the food not the bulldogs😂

[@renel7303]

​@@albertr96football or gang?😂

[@thomastrout9997]

And it seems to get harder every year....stay strong

[@Nilshelppi]

In 1960 I had a summer job in an apricot orchard in Fremont .

[@ruralangwin]

Sad to see all the orchards paved over.

[@Littlepaw7]

@@Nilshelppi My first job was driving tractor hauling bins of apricots to get loaded on to the trucks💓not a typical job for a girl but we had so much fun out there.

[@VinnyMaz]

Fremont is the Bay Area my dad was born that year and moved to San Jose from Burlingame in 1967 and San Jose was all orchards he said .. my grandparents were born in Italy

[@legobobafett5045]

I'm from Fremont (East Bay) and Manteca (Central Valley). Yes. I'm a Mont Boy. (Manteca used to be MONTECA) I miss My childhood. Back and forth between the two cities. Two Different worlds!

[@DD2DL]

Cool.. but Fremont isn't part of this video 🤔

[@joetanaka6446]

I grew up in Modesto. Incredibly agricultural area. Worked summers in high school at the world's largest cannery S&W #7. Good ole Central Valley days.

[@terrancepowell7371]

Manteca here!

[@jnels2007]

Was just in Modesto, so many almond orchards surrounding it

[@suppylarue220]

now it's a bedroom commuter haven for lower paid bay area people.

[@salvadorpulido19]

209 modesto-riverbank

[@phillipemery5199]

World's largest cannery?😂.... Not even close.

[@MrsMoon-qs2gf]

Thank you so much for posting this! My grandparents, and most of their families, immigrated from England in 1909 to take up US government homesteads in Bakersfield. My grandfather and his father-in-law had been tailors in London while others had been various other professional occupations. Most stayed and became farmers while several went to work in the oil patch. A number moved east to Missouri or north to Oregon, Washington and Canada. Those who stayed built farms and homes. My grandfather raised alfalfa, dairy cattle and imported from Spain and planted the first olive trees in the area. During their time on the land, they saw the Great Migration during the Dust Bowl years of the mid-West as well as many changes and growth of the southern end of the San Joaquin valley. In 1959, my grandparents moved to Shell Beach and one of my uncles took over the ranch. He built a new home taking down the original house then selling most of the land to a housing developer. Today, there is only the house that my uncle built and it is surrounded by hundreds of suburban homes on the road my grandfather named Olive Drive.

[@spice1960]

Sorry to hear your Homestead was sold off. We are facing selling our California ranch😢😢

[@MrsMoon-qs2gf]

@@spice1960 My uncle's choice but no one else wanted to be in the business. 🤷

[@LAtheYoung61]

W o w

[@CanDeeMarie]

No one cares they did it the correct way and benefit the country they'd prefer to have crime and trash everywhere as it is now 😂

[@hitmanbangspiedpipersledme999]

Wow I’d love to grab coffee with you sometime and just listen. I bet you have some wonderful history to spill😊

[@jash500]

John Fogerty from CCR grew up in Porterville. Steve Perry from Journey(!) grew up in Hanford.

[@maxsand5618]

I went to high school in p-ville lived in Springville Born in Exeter

[@jameshinton429]

@@maxsand5618Springville is a cool little town. My dad lived there for a bit. I grew up in Hanford and Armona.

[@roamlikekane]

Santana is from the Bay Area CA.

[@Jcpeeps-i9k]

Kevin Costner is from visalia

[@jash500]

@@maxsand5618 right on 👍🏼. Grew up in Exeter in the 80’s and 90’s. Enjoyed going to the Springville apple festival!

[@eleazarselga8879]

I grew up and worked the farmlands around Stockton, the asparagus, tomato, fields, the grape vineyard around Lodi, the pear orchards around Sacramento. This brings me back to when life was simple.

[@YouilAushana]

Too bad you California useful idiots got played by communism. I can't remember how much I been laughing at all you bums coming to Arizona and then complaining about capitalism. 😮

[@jordanvannortwick9426]

@@YouilAushanamore shitty bait

[@herminiovillanueva3484]

Kingsburg, CA checking in.

[@Thedudemannn]

Great ! You’re checked in. Please take a seat in the waiting area, your reservation won’t be ready for another 15 minutes.

[@Connery007neckache]

Where the hell is that?

[@kobybarnes3035]

@@Connery007neckache off the 99 before Fowler

[@elchamuco1263]

Born and raised in Gilroy. Till I went off to the military. Orchards back then. Missing seeing my dad driving tractor. Have relatives in Fresno and visalia. Great times back then.

[@YouilAushana]

Back then ....

[@mike6376032]

Yes, I missed the orchards in Gilroy. I myself born and raised in Hollister I missed the orchards and the farm land I remember as a child i would cut apricots during the summer in Hollister.

[@bumpedhishead636]

Born & raised in Porterville. The film missed a huge crop for the Eastern part of the valley - citrus. Oranges were introduced in the late 19th century. Everyone thinks of Florida for oranges, but the truth is that most Florida oranges are raised only for juice. Fresh eating oranges (Navels) come from California. So do the more modern Cuties & other small mandarin hybrids.

[@jash500]

@@bumpedhishead636 Agreed, Tulare County deserves to be mentioned. I grew up in Exeter in the 80s and 90s. My grandparents had a couple acres of oranges outside town. They raised orange blossom honey too. I grew up thinking oranges were common and apples were the delicacy. Eating oranges right off the tree was normal 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@NorthKoreaUncovered]

Hello fellow Porterville native!

[@Eric-469]

I work in ag in the valley currently and citrus farmers are about the only thing keeping us alive. Very thankful for all growers, but especially citrus right now, given commodity prices and how difficult the state has made it to farm sustainably - both from a resource and an economic perspective.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

I am grateful for the hardworking people of the Central Valley. I was born in Ceres and lived in Turlock, Stockton, and Sacramento. My mother was born in Merced, grew up in Los Banos, and lived in Modesto. My grandparents, from Spain, settled in Los Banos in the thirties. So much rich history is there for those who slow down and look around.

[@stevenjohnson7086]

Los Banos Drug had the last lunch counter in a drug store. I’ve eaten there a few times. I understand it’s closed now. The West Side had a significant Basque community

[@HerAeolianHarp]

@@stevenjohnson7086My mom’s family were part of that. My Spanish (Aragonese) grandad had many Basque friends and had been a sheepherder. In the 1950s, he was the janitor at the Rexall. My mom would visit after school.

[@IsaiahDanielJohnson]

I like Wool Growers in Los Banos. Great Basque food!

[@JohnMatrixOfficial]

Here, because the algorithm and part of this Valley 🤠🍻

[@damonhill4909]

Bakersfield native born 1958 here, now living in Santa Rosa California since 1969. My maternal grandpa Otto Gustave Heckmann was the 2nd in command of Bakersfield police dept back in the day. He and grandma moved to Bakersfield on advice from a doctor to cure his case of TB he contracted from working as a stevedore (dock worker) in San Francisco. 😊

[@h.briseno8597]

I live in the Central Valley. My dad was a Forman at a dairy growing up; great memories.🥰

[@JonDalysMiniFridge]

Multinational corporations tell us whites don't want these jobs. They're too lazy. They want the fentanyl we prescribed them....all we are left with is a husk of society where we say about migrants "yeah they work hard" and we all go our separate ways, never interacting...the end result of the multi-racial low-trust society. Was it worth it? Do you want to watch Impractical Jokers while Honduran nurses help you get out of bed in your 80's?

[@cuernodechivo5161]

Im from Lodi and I grew up watching my folks work in the grape fields. Winery’s are a huge thing around here. I’m proud of where I’m from.

[@AndyPonce-du7xm]

Born and raised in Livingston, CA. Sweet potatoes, almonds, and dairies everywhere you look. I love our beautiful Central Valley

[@gerardocortez5464]

And peaches!

[@daleva187goligo]

livingston, right next to delhi... do you know the Alvarez's?

[@Fickets]

I’m from Elk Grove, but my dad lived in Kingsburg. Spent a lot of time in the region. Loved it more than Sac, that’s for sure.

[@DevastateOne]

Always loved traveling thru there as a kid from LA heading up to Gilroy... While on the road i would just stare out into fields and mountains, looking out for wild animals and farmed ones. Then when it got dark i would love to stare up at the night sky and usually would catch a shooting star or two. The good ol days 😎🙏

[@MikeMarley-r9s]

This is how it was when I was a kid.A wonderfully place to live.Now look at it.

[@ralphjason6720]

It's all gone! Everything. It's very hard to see.

[@warrenrobinson1525]

Shout out to my days in Bakersfield! 😊

[@bobbyhoward8568]

Shafter actually that hell hole called Smiths corner i got the hell out of there by joining the Army and then moved to the Bay Area i got a job with HP and never looked back working in the fields was hot depressing hell no i don't even miss it LOL

[@warrenrobinson1525]

@ This time of year (Dec-Jan) the valley (Bakersfield ) is the fog growing capital of California. I don’t miss the fog days. Shatter is probably similar.

[@dapawaz8310]

I grew up in Exeter, in the 60s and 70s. I miss the California I grew up in, but it's gone.

[@Medrano261]

Grew up in Wasco

[@tuttifrutti2642]

@@bobbyhoward8568but , don’t forget it made you who you are today. I grew up in Bakersfield and I’d rather be from there than Los Angeles. Lots of good and honest people with Christian and family values.

[@BriannaClark-dr5wd]

Born and raised here in Fresno, CA. Hopefully we can get CA back to the way it used to be.

[@johnnynephrite6147]

Racist, uneducated and impoverished?

[@snippletrap]

It will never be the same because the people are not the same.

[@ltodd79]

Make California Great Again.

[@hangtownranger]

The county and city plans are to build houses over all the fertile land and depend on South America and China for our produce to ensure America stays dependent on global industry( or the rich businessmen).

[@johnnynephrite6147]

@@ltodd79 yeah lets go back to the racist, corrupt, draconian past where white men ruled and everyone else was oppressed.

[@dorisbuchmann4164]

Family arrived here in 1950, immigrated from Germany to Fowler. Lived on a relatives farm, thompson grapes grown, for raisin drying. What a hard job!

[@TrickleCreekFarm]

My Great Grandmother and my Grandmother (& her siblings) used to work & harvest the fields. Much of my Grandfather’s family were still working the Northern region of CA, until their bodies just couldn’t do it anymore. They loved their small communities!

[@baykicks4084]

Northern California Born & raised, San Jose to be exact , always had love for Stockton, Modesto and Tracy. Nice video showing the history of our state.

[@Itchin2shoot13]

From Arvin,CA checking in . Much Love to BAKERSFIELD and TAFT and the rest of the Kern County ! My dad moved to TAFT for a year for work and my Sister was always in BAKERSFIELD Love the Central Valley my parents lived here after moving from mexico and they raised my sister, older brother me and my little brother here aswell! We all worked in the fields now my dad works in the Oil field ! My mom still works in the field , my 2 brothers are truckers and im in school for pharmachy. Also much love to TEHACHAPI for the yard sales they would always have every SAT-SUN ! everyhouse there would have a yard sale

[@mtbalpinecounty]

💪 Great old footage here!..

[@hernehill6282]

Great footage but gotta admit, I got a little sleepy, just like back in those school days....

[@Century938]

We used to travel from Los Angeles to Twain Hart California in the early 70s through the 80s. We would head north on 99 to Merced J 59 to 108 Beautiful Dr. with beautiful views of the open valley.

[@Thegreattoasty]

My great grandparents settled in Stockton and started Farming in Robert’s island since the 1920’s. 100 years later we may not farm anymore, but still own the land they tilled. ❤ Stockton Proud

[@nmh487]

My husband’s family used to live in Robert’s island and now live in Stockton.

[@mannyj4751]

Born in Hanford, CA. We picked cotton and grapes during harvest season. Left at 10 years old with Mom to live in Bay Area.

[@joethomas5983]

Another theory about the valley is that it was a huge freshwater lake that's outlet was near Monterey. Having spent time underwater near there I can say that something must have been going on in the past as there are super deep canyons in the ocean in that area.

[@TrickleCreekFarm]

Appreciate you sharing your experience, thank you!

[@Laredo-c7g]

Something must have been going on? Like what? That is super vague and conveys nothing lol

[@omnesilere]

@@Laredo-c7g boomer mentality just ignore him

[@nolanhasty557]

Born in Clovis , my Dad’s family grew almonds on small acre plots out that way . I had no love for it when I was younger but now it gives me great pride . Hearing a Bakersfield sound song takes me right back home 😁

[@jujub4553]

Love old videos like this. So nice and interesting to watch

[@conormccullar4797]

Born in Clovis and live in the foothills near Fresno. I love the Central Valley. This bit of history was enlightening. Excited to learn more.

[@notaplasticexistence]

Why did you just tell strangers where you live?

[@3henry214]

@@notaplasticexistence So he said he lives in the foothills near Fresno, that's a lot of ground to cover, I seriously doubt he has anything to be concerned about in mentioning a general area where he lives, so why are you concerned?

[@kmontoyakc]

Shout out to the projectors that used to play in our schools before everything went digital. Mostly black and white films giving us history in 80's to the 2000's from a 42 year old.

[@kaitanneee]

My Grandmother was born in 1933 in San Jose and brought back to the orchard where her parents worked and picked fruit. They lived in more or less a tent there. It was always neat to hear her stories!

[@jrfrantz5894]

Born and raised in Chowchilla 1950, rough life we all worked the fields. Now I miss it.

[@Javier-v4k]

Born in Tulare miss that place

[@williamwheatley1604]

I live in Tulare now……

[@brucebrucefoundation]

They have a solid skatepark!! And some really nice homes being built on the east side.

[@Buckseed]

Stockton, CA. My Grandpa was a forklift driver for the cannery on Waterloo Rd...old Tilly Lewis back then.

[@martinez209]

Later became Ragu and can't remember what that was before Ragu

[@Batfan166]

Thank you for this video. I ❤California

[@blancolirio]

Dams! Cant live without them!

[@RobtheAviator]

Blanco in the wild!! Love your content.

[@FahqTyrants]

That's why Newsom is destroying them

[@flabiger]

Nice to see you here Juan.

[@franzgil2961]

I lived in Madera in 2007 and traveled all the places mentioned in this video by car and through the fruit fields ..i loves it. I miss it .i was enjoying the sunny days since half of my life has been in Seattle

[@Skunk1337]

It’s sooo cool listen to older people about Fresno and hang out back in the days thanks for the story !!!! I could imagine tower was so busy back then 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@TheKnoxcountry]

Ahhh…. God bless that place and the hard working people who made & maintain it 🙏👏✌️

[@Lavadawg0311]

Shoutout to the 559 and it’s very down to earth way of life. Very dedicated to family and culture

[@priscillaL83]

Love living in Northern California ❤

[@HomerG-x2u]

Born in Exeter, raised in the country near Woodville.

[@YouilAushana]

And still stupid liberal

[@arickquinton1268]

Outstanding video. My homeland, Tulare Co. Bury me in Tres Rios

[@Ivoryfier]

Education was a lot more simplified and direct back there. Just look at how all this is laid out compared to today’s formats.

[@YouilAushana]

College indoctrinated useful idiots

[@Russ-gy7tx]

Priceless Films like these are what was shown and learned in class, and I learned that California is like an “Old Man’s Prostrate”

[@jameseaton5703]

I'n 1942, my 15 Year Old Dad, and my Great Uncle Herschel Clark road the Rails and picked fruit all up and down the West Coast that Harvest Season. My Dad's first paying Job was keeping the Fires going in 55 Gallon Cans during Frosts in the Citrus Groves in Corona. Dad Lied about his age and at 13 he got his Chauffers Licence through Sunkist. He drove a Flatbed Ford hauling Oranges out of the fields to the processing plant.

[@NorthKoreaUncovered]

Porterville born and raised. I live in Ventura now but I still think of the central valley as home.

[@weariedhorizon1665]

The Central Valley. Our HOME !! I’m from Visalia so we’re the come ups!

[@RicardoTorres1]

Delano, CA checking in! If you grew up here you probably hit the grape fields during summer vacations 😉

[@gilbertoescamilla1380]

Born and raised in Oxnard, but my dad would take us migrant working from Hollister all the way up to Vacaville every summer from 1945 till about 1957. We worked in San Martin, Tracey, Gilroy Isleton harvesting prunes,peaches,tomatoes but not grapes because my mom would tell dad that we had to get back so we could go to school. Grapes was where the big money was but it ran into late fall season 😊😊

[@chal813]

From Hollister (831) then moved to Los Banos. Now in Nevada…I miss my home state.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

My mom grew up in LB in the forties to sixties when it was a Portuguese/Spanish/Basque/Italian-flavored town.

[@chal813]

@@HerAeolianHarp I worked at a catholic nursing home there and many spoke Portuguese. Also the wool growers restaurant has delicious basque French style cuisine.

[@miami8089]

I am from Yuba City born and raised farming fruit. I also have family in Selma that farms raisins. This is a great video. Thank you for sharing.

[@BigYahrell916]

I grew up in Corcoran, most of my family is still there. Farm Capital of Cali

[@drerod8543]

My moms parents grew up in Whittier, Ca; Granpa born in 1925 and gramma in 27. They ended up in Tracy, Ca. In the early 50s they ended working the fields moving northward and ended up in Tracy. My grandfather ended up working in the Heinz factory and retired from there. Most of my moms siblings still live in and around Tracy

[@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.]

Lived there for 28 years. Leprinos last one standing. Sad what’s happening to Tank Town.

[@drerod8543]

@ yea my moms brother did leprinos for like 20 years or so recently retired a few back!

[@mykjrocha]

Awesome history lesson!,

[@gilgarza9599]

I’ve lived in Fresno my whole life and it’s no different from any other city in California. The best part of being in the Central Valley is that you’re only a couple hours away from mountains, lakes and oceans. I wake up looking at the mountains every day covered in snow in the winter. There’s certain areas you don’t go in unless you’re from there and familiar with that area just like any other city in California.

[@daleva187goligo]

I grew up in sj but spent a few summers in delhi at a friend's house, worked in the fields at their family's ranch, those central valley summers are no joke, it's basically a dry desert, but it was fun times, they had a river running through their property, so we would take a dip after a long day's work, we used a log as a diving board

[@adurpandya2742]

This resembles modern youtube video essays more than documentaries. I like this format far more.

[@hitmanbangspiedpipersledme999]

It’s nostalgic for me😌

[@jonsmoljan8661]

smoljan men arrived in orange cove early 1900s.grandfather leo smoljan started 1st box company in the area for the local farmers, golden west box.

[@YouilAushana]

Cronyism at its finest

[@dsanchezc3]

My family landed in Delano in the 50s. Before that, they traveled to Kansas and Michigan in the early 1900s. Some were deported illegally during the REPRATRIATION ACT in the 30s. I grew up in Delano and worked in the grape farms as a teenager. I had a great childhood in my hometown. Now, at 43, I still live in Delano and am looking forward to my retirement but plan to spend half of my time in Mexico City and other parts of Mexico traveling.

[@Smacks1]

Cen Cal my home

[@franklimper2677]

Me too Riverbank

[@RW5_88]

Thats where my grandpa built his home & raised his family. I grew up there part-time along with my siblings & cousins. A total of 4 generations & counting has been brought up from the roots my grandfather started in the 1950s.

[@RandomRabbit007]

Never heard it be called CenCal. We always said CentralValley or CV

[@renel7303]

​@@RandomRabbit007I've never heard CV. I've seen and used Cen Cal on occasion. Generally online I refer to it as Middle California. That's what we are and where we are.

[@TrU_homie]

@@franklimper2677riverbank is definitely northern ca , everything north of Merced is

[@warrenrobinson1525]

How refreshing. An agriculture film with out the annoying talk of labor and environmental stuff. It’s all about man improving his position. 😊

[@HostileHairline]

Try working on a farm and say that labor isn’t part of the story 😂

[@warrenrobinson1525]

@ As a 18 year old I spent a half day “professionally” cutting grape vines one November for the farmer father of my girlfriend. After that I had respect for field workers. Farmers are can do people with horse sense. 😎

[@BenjaminMilesPerry]

"Labor and environmental stuff" Yeah let's disregard how it gets from the ground to your table, and while you at it fuq the environment , because post WWII CONCERN and sustainability then is not what it is today.

[@shoobydooby2564]

farming is inseparable from labor and the environment

[@wanyekest71]

​@@warrenrobinson1525 environmental stuff? Your thinking is the reason rivers get polluted and children have autism

[@stephenbird5472]

Interesting film. I was born in the Central Valley six years after this was made. Very little of this is still true of today. Tech companies have taken over control of the government and agriculture is disappearing rapidly due to competition for water and anti-agricultural regulations. In 1965 the city where I lived had so much water they had no meters and a flat rate. The electricity was the cheapest in the U.S. Since that time the population is over double and no reservoirs have been built. We now import food from other countries.

[@williamsantos163]

My grandfather worked as an Almond farmer during the mid to late 60's in Manteca. Neat film to watch

[@runderwo]

The problem with a groundwater irrigation strategy is that arsenic ends up in the produce, if the target crops are chosen by market value rather than suitability for groundwater irrigation.

[@7hotfuzz7]

My grandfather graduated high school in 1949, told me all about how beautiful and pristine the state used to be. When he died I found pictures of him and his buddies from Korea who took a road trip from Baja California to Vancouver. Beautiful country

[@carlita8585]

I was born in El Centro and came to Fresno when I was 4 years old. I've been here ever since. Fresno was great, in my eyes, until people started coming from the bay and LA. That really jacked up the prices here.

[@kathleenking47]

North fork in Madera county Is exact center of CA

[@YouilAushana]

It's called cronyism you materialistic scum

[@FahqTyrants]

Also the crime

[@johnklinger943]

My great-great grandparents settled in Stockton in the 1800’s during the Gold Rush and Chico. I was born in the 1970’s in Sacramento. As a child I thought the people from the coast and the Sierra were blessed as us Valley Kids were Not! But I moved my family in the 90’s and we now have cold winters. And long drives to see the ocean. Miss it!

[@huskyflylangley6053]

Born in 1972, Tracy, CA native here, a great place to grow up, Paper route at age 11, loaded Stearman crop dusters starting at age 15, sweet smell of fresh cut alfalfa, almond orchards, ( not ALLmond, almond, like Salmon) tomatoes, apricots, HJ Heinz. It was a great way to grow up, it sure has changed and not for better.

[@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.]

Lived there for 28 years sad to see everything changing. Did you work with Sam Mathews at Tracy Press?

[@huskyflylangley6053]

@ Yes. Delivered for them in the 80s. Bought my first car with paper route money, worked for Trinkle and Boys on 33 from high school and through college. I took the windsock from the hangar and sign from the door when they closed up shop. Today they would never let a 15 year old kid load 70lb sacks of sulfur into dusters now. I loved growing up Gen x

[@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.]

@@huskyflylangley6053 Sam was my neighbor for several years. Great dude.

[@huskyflylangley6053]

@ He was a great guy, my family has known them forever, the Press always did great local stories and service to Tracy. Parents are still there and I go back regularly.

[@maxsand5618]

Born in Exeter lived in Springville went to porterville high back in the 60s

[@brucebrucefoundation]

Springville has a random spring on the side the road. We filled up a couple times. 👌🏻

[@drewflores1730]

Crazy my grandparents always told me when they moved here from Texas that it was farm land in San Jose and Sacramento crazy to see it!

[@aaroneaton583]

BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA

[@YouilAushana]

Liberal shithole beacon to the world

[@nrolled2888]

My family built many feed lots, packing sheds, and steel buildings once the water came to the Valley. 1929-Current.

[@subitopoco]

No mention of Kerman in the comments yet? Friant dam at 4:20 looking clean and crisp! It's a bit sad to see everything in this video looking clean and new. It doesn't look like that now.

[@twin4746]

Los Banos ,Ca 209 merced county. Much love to all the valley we feed the world!!

[@davieb68]

My first job as a kid living in Modesto was knocking almonds with rubber mallets on to the plastic we laid out , heck of a work out . Very sad to see all the development taking place, all of our rich farm land are now taken over by developers building homes and huge warehouses that sit empty ? 🤷‍♂️

[@YouilAushana]

You wanted economic opportunities and you got them

[@davieb68]

@ I was 10 -11 years old . What are you talking about ?

[@davieb68]

@@YouilAushana oh Waite, your a Kamala supporter 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@eljoemissiletoe3438]

As a piece of DRY FRUIT FROM CALIFORNIA I appreciate THIS CONTENT🎉

[@HeavyG64]

Cher is from Fresno. Also the band Redbone is from Coalinga and Fresno

[@howardwilson2221]

Woodlake checking in.

[@1daniellaz]

Great video

[@franks551]

Visalia ❤❤i miss driving down Mooney to get some B.T burritos

[@Nathang2233]

12 yr old video going viral now I see. All the comments are from that last 2 days

[@philhofland5501]

called KZbin pushing it.

[@Nathang2233]

@ ya it’s crazy after 12yrs it’s starts getting views. It’s rare but it happens

[@YouilAushana]

We sure showed you stupid indoctrinated California communists bastards. ❤

[@JamesWicker-ps4gq]

I meet lot good people from the valley moving are passing through Georgia 🇬🇪

[@BaysideLocal]

You guys who love this type of history should really read a book called "along passed this way a man blessed by God" by brother Terry from first Pentecostal church of greater Bakersfield. Its an amazing story illustrating how many Americans from the middle states settled in many areas of northern California during the great dust bowl bringing with them a rich culture of culture of faith. Much love to all of you reading this comment and to all the men and women of God who follow the teachings of the apostles and of the Lord Jesus Christ "you must be born again" "you must be born of water and spirit" "be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ"

[@YouilAushana]

No thanks stupid commies

[@omni379]

Praise be the algorithm. I grew up in Sacramento and Lodi, and love seeing my home represented.

[@jamesgibson3242]

The setting of East of Eden except it took place during the beginning of WWI. Took place in Salinas which is in the area of the video.

[@Godisincontrol325]

I'm so glad I found this video 😁🎉 I subscribed to your channel 🙏 I love growing from Seed 🌱

[@ChandoisGainesjr-fn9vr]

Central valley stand up! 209 Merced co!

[@Doeboi131]

I'm standing.....now what

[@ChandoisGainesjr-fn9vr]

Now sit down 👇🏿😆

[@kathleenking47]

The entire valley, used to be 209

[@YouilAushana]

Good job you have identified yourself as a useful idiot

[@JoseRamirez-nw7pg]

Born and raised in Woodland California ❤️

[@jayrock3333]

Born and raised in Lodi CA. I now live in Humboldt county