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Tehachapi (/ t ə ˈ h æ tʃ ə p i / ⓘ; Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") [7] [8] is a city in Kern County, California, United States, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet (1,210 m), [4] between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
Shindo was born Koryu Shindo in Kobuchisawa, Japan on 24 November 1890. He was the only son of a teacher and town mayor, who encouraged him to immigrate to the United States to avoid conscription into the Japanese military service. [ 1 ]
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
Tehachapi Mountains surrounding Tehachapi, California, and often considered the southern boundary of Central California; Tehachapi Municipal Airport (KTSP) in Tehachapi, California; Tehachapi News, based in Tehachapi, California; Tehachapi Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains Tehachapi Loop, the railroad engineering feat enabling trains to traverse ...
The eastern Tehachapi foothills: panoramic view with the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm. The origin of the name Tehachapi may come from the Kawaiisu language, derived from the word "tihachipia" translated as "hard climb". [11] The historic Indigenous peoples of California with homelands in the Tehachapi Mountains were the: Kitanemuk; Kawaiisu [12 ...
The city of Tehachapi — in the Tehachapi Mountains and Tehachapi Pass area, Kern County, California. Pages in category "Tehachapi, California" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
When Christina Cardenas visited her husband in 2019 at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, she was forced to undergo a traumatic, hours-long cavity search that involved her ...
The newspaper descends from a publication started in 1899 and has continued since then. The Tehachapi News now is owned by the Bakersfield Californian. On January 1, 2018, TBC Media will be taking over all operations and will be the employer for all employees of the Bakersfield Californian, along with Tehachapi News. This transition was ...