2008 Woodie Awards
Oildale: Fill your plate in the '08
Earl Parsons
Issue date: 5/9/07 Section: Reviews
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Get 'er done.
Oildale represents that sliver of 1930s Dust Bowl migration still evident in Central Valley life today.
An unincorporated community directly across the Kern River from Bakersfield, parts of Oildale have maintained the same backwater, blue-collar, "we don't take kindly to y'all round here" persona for the last 50 years.
Let me tell you hwhat (sic) types of sights you can see in the '08.
Trout's
805 No. Chester Ave.
Drink a watered-down American beer and two-step with a one-toothed alcoholic at this legendary bar. The only thing missing from this dive is the decades-old jar of pickled eggs.
Nature's Medicinal
323 Roberts Lane
If you either suffer from a debilitating ailment or have $350 a year and know the right doctor, you can purchase quality medicinal remedies for a little more than their street value here. This is just one of the two medicinal cooperatives in Oildale, the other being Sweet Relief on 1340 Roberts Lane.
Interesting names for their products include Romulan, New York City Diesel, Skywalker, and the ever-popular Alaskan Thunderf***.
The Pit
Behind Nature's Medicinal
This colorful apartment complex/trailer park directly behind the medicinal cooperative, so named because it dips down a hill, features all of the stereotypical white trash life made popular by Hee-Haw. The smell of boiling crystal meth can be wafted from the sidewalk.
Riverview Park
401 Willow Drive
Aside from being a safe haven for straggling homeless people on their way to collecting recyclables, this park features the first and most difficult disc golf course in all of Kern County.
At no charge to the public, aside from the specialty discs, Frisbee golf, or as I like to call it, "frolf," is an entertaining way to spend a boring afternoon when you're broke.
El Taquito
912 No. Chester Ave.
You wouldn't expect to find good Mexican food in Oildale, but El Taquito has some of the best cuisine this side of the border.
Oildale represents that sliver of 1930s Dust Bowl migration still evident in Central Valley life today.
An unincorporated community directly across the Kern River from Bakersfield, parts of Oildale have maintained the same backwater, blue-collar, "we don't take kindly to y'all round here" persona for the last 50 years.
Let me tell you hwhat (sic) types of sights you can see in the '08.
Trout's
805 No. Chester Ave.
Drink a watered-down American beer and two-step with a one-toothed alcoholic at this legendary bar. The only thing missing from this dive is the decades-old jar of pickled eggs.
Nature's Medicinal
323 Roberts Lane
If you either suffer from a debilitating ailment or have $350 a year and know the right doctor, you can purchase quality medicinal remedies for a little more than their street value here. This is just one of the two medicinal cooperatives in Oildale, the other being Sweet Relief on 1340 Roberts Lane.
Interesting names for their products include Romulan, New York City Diesel, Skywalker, and the ever-popular Alaskan Thunderf***.
The Pit
Behind Nature's Medicinal
This colorful apartment complex/trailer park directly behind the medicinal cooperative, so named because it dips down a hill, features all of the stereotypical white trash life made popular by Hee-Haw. The smell of boiling crystal meth can be wafted from the sidewalk.
Riverview Park
401 Willow Drive
Aside from being a safe haven for straggling homeless people on their way to collecting recyclables, this park features the first and most difficult disc golf course in all of Kern County.
At no charge to the public, aside from the specialty discs, Frisbee golf, or as I like to call it, "frolf," is an entertaining way to spend a boring afternoon when you're broke.
El Taquito
912 No. Chester Ave.
You wouldn't expect to find good Mexican food in Oildale, but El Taquito has some of the best cuisine this side of the border.
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oildale born and raised
posted 10/03/07 @ 1:23 AM PST
are you retarded? the crime rate in bakersfield is worse than Oildale--try doing a blog on 93306 east bakersfield where I grew up and went to school almost 40 years ago-- I know sheriffs who stated 5 years ago that that this area is the worst patrol area!!!-- I'm afraid to go there at night anymore-- crime so bad in so many areas there I closed down a business on the east side 4 years ago because crime so bad and was afraid to be there after dark !!! ! I was born and raised in bakersfield--moved away and came back over 10 years later to buy a house in a neighborhood in 93308 where a lot of hard working individuals actually still care for one another and look out for each other--guess what?--the real estate boom although it brought up our price of housing--also screwed up many of the reasons why we love and took pride in being here--so many outsiders from other towns moved in to take advantage of the low prices of housing/greed -- and brought their unsupervised and uncontrollable
oildale born and raised
posted 10/03/07 @ 1:24 AM PST
are you retarded? the crime rate in bakersfield is worse than Oildale--try doing a blog on 93306 east bakersfield where I grew up and went to school almost 40 years ago-- I know sheriffs who stated 5 years ago that that this area is the worst patrol area!!!-- I'm afraid to go there at night anymore-- crime so bad in so many areas there I closed down a business on the east side 4 years ago because crime so bad and was afraid to be there after dark !!! ! I was born and raised in bakersfield--moved away and came back over 10 years later to buy a house in a neighborhood in 93308 where a lot of hard working individuals actually still care for one another and look out for each other--guess what?--the real estate boom although it brought up our price of housing--also screwed up many of the reasons why we love and took pride in being here--so many outsiders from other towns moved in to take advantage of the low prices of housing/greed -- and brought their unsupervised and uncontrollable
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