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Old Highway 99 - Aubuchon Family - Selma, CA

This 2006 photo shows little change in 53 years.
(Until you walk in at ground level.)
I can still recognize the place,
unlike other places, that have been hammered by the changes of time.
Oleander no longer fills the highway center divide.
Comments in red made after visiting on the ground March 07, 2006, 50 years later. What had been an oasis, has returned to desert.

"OLD H99" refers to the old Highway 99, which is now Whitson St. On the top right of the photo, W. Front Street can just be seen along the railroad tracks.

Bill's son was named Gary Aubuchon (b.1934?). He took my grandpa and I fishing for catfish, and got stuck in the thumb pretty badly - I have been unreasonably respectful of catfish stickers ever since.

"E" was great-grandma Mary Eliza Aubuchon's house (now just a junk pile) . All around the house and along the driveway "F" were grape vines of every type - Muscat, Thompson Seedless, Tokay (all gone) - plus oranges, nectarines, peaches, plums, pomegranates, apricots (all gone) . In August, eat what you want, it's the CENTRAL VALLEY, everything's ripe - great fun as a kid. "S" denotes the storage yard. .
Selma, CA

Ah, the memories. The HEAT , the trains, the agricultural smells, the crickets at night, fresh fruit everywhere. Nesbitt's Orange and Nehi Grape in the drink cooler, just below the "A" in the top photo. Ten cents for 8 ounces - the price was low, but the bottles were small. RC Cola (Royal Crown) was the best deal, because you got more.

And there was adding ice, and taking turns on the ice cream crank, on the cushiony, spongy Bermuda grass, with the sprinkler running nearby. And the crickets just starting up.

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