James Garner was from Oklahoma and he always joked that the first 3 words kids from Oklahoma learned were mommy, daddy and Bakersfield.
I call Kevin Harvick the the Little Okie from Bakersfield. I lived in Western Fresno county when the Kern fields were being developed and the father of some of my friends worked on those rigs. He followed the oil to Coalinga Ca and was killed there one drunken night...