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mnhtnbb

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1. Water has always been precious in this part of California. My mom (1908-2000)

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:27 AM

Sep 2015

grew up around there in a tiny little town called Terra Bella and her youngest sibling,
my uncle, went to high school in Porterville.

I can remember visiting my mother's sister and husband--who were orange ranchers--
in Delano in the early 1960's. My aunt yelled at me for taking a bath and using
more than an inch of water in the bathtub! I guess I was about 10 and forgot
to wash out the bathtub ring when I was done and that's how she knew!

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Mother Jones magazine: Here�s What I Saw in a California Town Without Running Water [View all] marmar Sep 2015 OP

Water has always been precious in this part of California. My mom (1908-2000) mnhtnbb Sep 2015 #1

Big Agra has the money and hardware Le Taz Hot Sep 2015 #2

The very reality of trickle down economics.. mountain grammy Sep 2015 #4

they're an outright hacendado class, with so much water rights they're dumping it into alfalfa MisterP Sep 2015 #5

reminds me of hilt which is a ghost town now roguevalley Sep 2015 #3