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Oral History Interview: Early Migration in Kern County Dick Apsley interviewed by Orville Armstrong

Dick Apsley emigrated to Fresno from Bellfast, Ireland in 1908, and then moved on to Bakersfield in early 1909. He was a pharmacist at Hughe's Drug Store on the corner of 19th Street and Chester. Apsley recalls early downtown Bakersfield businesses and the people who owned and worked them, while also recounting his personal experiences working at the drug store and the hospitals in Bakersfield, California.