He grew up in Oildale (adjoins Bakersfield on the north)...
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paden cash, post: 422089, member: 20 wrote: My daughter-in-law has family in Jet. All named Wolf, Krausse, Platt or Potter. I think there are still a few left up there. Jet is small, but they get smaller north and west. At least Jet has a gas station that sells fried chicken by the piece and fried cheddar poppers. 😉
As an Aside to this thread.
a Couple of weeks ago I had an online "Chat" with a fellow from around Pawhuska that tried to tell me that US 60 running west from Pawhuska ends at Jet. He insisted on that and wouldn't listen to reason otherwise. Poor feller. Didn't have brains enough to "Listen and Learn".
I personally know that it keeps running all the way to California. How far East it goes I haven't researched.
Stephen Johnson, post: 422163, member: 53 wrote: As an Aside to this thread.
a Couple of weeks ago I had an online "Chat" with a fellow from around Pawhuska that tried to tell me that US 60 running west from Pawhuska ends at Jet. He insisted on that and wouldn't listen to reason otherwise. Poor feller. Didn't have brains enough to "Listen and Learn".
I personally know that it keeps running all the way to California. How far East it goes I haven't researched.
According to my map of US Highway Routes US 60 either stops at Quartzite, AZ or now runs concurrent with I-10. It's eastern terminus looks like it loops around the north side of Virginia Beach, VA with a possible term point at the I-264 Jct. It's by no means a hitchhiker's paradise through these parts anymore.
Here's US 60 as it leaves Ellis Co., OK and enters Lipscomb Co., TX. A view only Kent could admire...
paden cash, post: 422171, member: 20 wrote: According to my map of US Highway Routes US 60 either stops at Quartzite, AZ or now runs concurrent with I-10. It's eastern terminus looks like it loops around the north side of Virginia Beach, VA with a possible term point at the I-264 Jct. It's by no means a hitchhiker's paradise through these parts anymore.
Here's US 60 as it leaves Ellis Co., OK and enters Lipscomb Co., TX. A view only Kent could admire...
I was born about 5 miles East and 15 miles North of where that picture was taken.
I have traveled through there Many times.
US 60 changes to CA60 at the Colorado River. The state line of CA & AZ. I used to live about a mile south of it in Moreno Valley CA in the late 80's.
As to Quartzite, I tell people that I spent a month there one week and I was only there 3 days.
Temps were hitting 125å¡+ there and not getting below 100å¡ until after midnight. June, 1990.
