What type of crankset is this?
03-18-24, 11:14 AM
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BTW, I remember planting those trees with my dad around 50 years ago. Good to see they're holding up to the Central Valley summers.
The location is pretty much smack dab in the middle of Madera, Chowchilla, and Firebaugh.
Chowchilla is famous for a school bus kidnapping, occured when I was 16 about 5 miles from that house. News reporters would stop by and ask to use our phone to call in their stories. Had to tell them it was ok, but they'd have to wait for Mrs. Vierra to get off the phone (we had a party line, she liked to call her friends for hours at a time).
Firebaugh is famous for being the hometown of Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen. One of my brother-in-laws is good friends with the Allen family.
Madera is famous for, well, not much. People would ask where I grew up, I'd tell them Madera, they wouldn't know where it was. I'd reply, "for a good time, we'd go to Fresno."
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03-18-24, 12:14 PM
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Firebaugh -
me SIMCA 1204 broke down out on I-5 in December o' seventy-two
tow truck towed me and girlfriend to Firebaugh as the nearest civilization
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Firebaugh -
me SIMCA 1204 broke down out on I-5 in December o' seventy-two
tow truck towed me and girlfriend to Firebaugh as the nearest civilization
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03-18-24, 12:56 PM
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ah...the delightful Central (San Joachin) Valley!
I just got a spam phonecall from Corcoran this morning, the town in which one of my sisters was born (and before the Prison was built!) so I didn't answer!
...We moved all over the Valley when I was too young to remember much: Corcoran, Dos Palos, Bakersfield, Hanford, Arvin...
Nobody recognizes any of these names ('cept maybe Bakersfield, thanks to the music).
I just got a spam phonecall from Corcoran this morning, the town in which one of my sisters was born (and before the Prison was built!) so I didn't answer!
...We moved all over the Valley when I was too young to remember much: Corcoran, Dos Palos, Bakersfield, Hanford, Arvin...
Nobody recognizes any of these names ('cept maybe Bakersfield, thanks to the music).
