A Bakersfield Childhood

First impressions are often lasting, and certainly that's true of our childhood years when nearly everything we encounter is fresh, new and exciting. A Bakersfield Childhood is the author's memoir of what it was like to live in a close-knit neighborhood in the 1930s, where nobody locked their doors and if your mother ran out of sugar while baking a cake she sent you next door to borrow a cupful.