I’m 59 years old and I remember digging post holes for a fence in my back yard in Fresno back in the 70’s and finding sea shells in almost all the holes!
Back in the mid 70's, my grandmother showed me a picture from her youth of a sea going ship docked in Pinedale. Pinedale used to be a separate city on the San Joaquin River and a suburb of Fresno. Before all the rivers were dammed up, big ships could sail all the way to Fresno!
I have been in Fresno all my life and just the other day for the 1st time have learned about all this, Tulare Lake and traveling by boat in the Central Valley. As this year has been very wet year and the Tulare Lake has been filling up, history is revealing itself. Nice.
My grandparents Carl Emanuel Tatting and Emmy Wickstrom, we’re from Sweden & settled here in Modesto, my grandfather was the first one to settle there they had moved north from Chino California where they were beat farmers and had dairy cattle, there was a drought which drove them north. When we were teenagers and we’d go visit my aunt Gert and uncle George, we got to go cruising down McHenry Avenue and we stopped at a hotdog stand this was in the 70s 😁 I have so many fond memories of all the picnics, visiting all the relatives who owned property and were in agriculture when I was a young girl in the 60s. It’s sad now, most of the properties been sold off before, my dad passed away I took six of my grandkids to meet him and he gave us a tour of the home that my grandfather helped build in the 1920s, and then one that he built for his family in the 1930’s. He also helped build the old bridge with lions that stood on the ends of it. My dad grew up on River Road, the river was in his backyard, he graduated from Modesto high and went on to Modesto Junior College and played football, he majored in history, then when the Korean war broke out, he went into the Navy. After the the war, he went on to become a California highway patrolman, he retired after 29 years. I used to love visiting my grandma Emy there. My uncle George Tiura married my aunt Gertrude Tatting, uncle George was a blacksmith, he owned a shop and made blades and other things for farming machinery, my cousin David followed in his footsteps and ran the shop for many years. 🤗💗🌷
Men's wisdom help erased once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, the Tulare Lake from the map, depleted the ground water in central valley and sunk the land by 28ft.
This wisdom feeds every single human being including you and every single person you know, have known, or will even know. Learn to appreciate this wisdom, hard work, and innovation. You call it "destroying"? How else would you eat my friend? From the grocery store?
@@CARambolagen In 1884, Scottish travel writer Constance Gordon-Cumming would warn that "[e]ven the great Tulare lake itself is in danger of being gradually absorbed by the numerous canals and ditches with which the whole country is now being intersected...[t]he poor lakes have simply been left to starve-the rivers, whose surplus waters hitherto fed them, having now been bridled and led away in ditches and canals to feed the great wheat-fields."[22]
We in the valley have all witnessed swaths of fertile farmland transform into sprawling suburbs and commercial districts void of any remnants of what once was. It's not only sad, but it's disastrous to the families still holding on to their artisanal farms as agribusiness conglomerates swallow up independent farmers or are bought out by developers seeking to build cookiecutter homes. Sad.
This needs to be shown to everyone in CA. Had no idea. Everything makes sense now. Hunting for sharks teeth in the desert, why anyone would settle out here etc.
This video has truth to it, but a lot of new geography researched as changed the story. The Central Valley was a bay of sorts, a very very long time ago, but it wasn't connected to the ocean through the bay, it was connected from the south. The connection to the bay is actually one of the more recent geological events. Millions of years ago it was a bay, but mountains continued to push up and the valley was isolated from the ocean. The water drained out through Monterey bay and eventually the Central Valley was a massive freshwater lake. When erosion from high water broke through forming the Carquinez strait, San Francisco bay was formed and the water flowed out from there about half a million years ago. This drained much of the original lake, though the Central Valley remained mostly wetland, lakes, and rivers until Americans came and dammed everything up and stole all the water and transformed the most of the valley.
I’m here in 2024! Central California native (Teviston & Tulare). When I think of home it never fails to remind me of the good land that I was raised on almost 48 years ago. I can still remember my cousins from the city visiting for summer and becoming jealous of our fresh water , sweet fruit and amazing produce. We knew our neighbors and cared for eachother. What a time to be alive!
Here it is 2024 and there still is no decent highway across the delta to Stockton. We still use the old two lane levy road and cross over the three ancient draw bridges. Heavy traffic including big semi's is really beating the old route up and those levy's are about 130 years old as well.
If we would only properly use the system we had when this was filmed, we would have bountiful abundance of water. Voters should be aware that it is unscientific enviromarxist "solutions" for fish species declines that force CA and federal officials to release water from the system to the ocean in a dubious attempt to bring fish stocks back from near extinction. In fact, there are many causes of declining native fish, including introduced predator species such as striped bass which eats as much as half of each years' salmon run before they can reach the ocean. Other problems include sewage leaks along our rivers and the bay and pollution from run-off and other sources. When the state and federal government runs the Delta pumps at near capacity, many times as much water can be diverted to our reservoir system to be used as an abundant source for our homes and agricultural use. Wise policy should dictate creating water abundance which is very possible especially with the unspent bond money the state has already received. Demand responsible government water use and a policy of abundance, not manmade shortages and manmade droughts.
Drove up the 5 freeway last weekend it’s so beautiful up there much less traffic than Southern California. Never seen so many orchards (mostly almond) also never felt true cold until I was in a field up there at night. I want to go back…
Born in and lived in Stockton 42 years. After I moved, I realized I'd never move back. I still go visit my folks, kids , grandkids and friends, but the minute I get to I-5, the obvious lower class of the Valley is sadly apparent. Even more stark is moving out of California - it's like a huge boulder off your chest. Your money goes so much farther, the people aren't so intense living just to work and working just to live, hours of life come back when your no longer spending over an hour daily commuting, the difference in available affordable and nicer homes is staggering, the lack of crazy endless rules and regulations just makes you take a huge breath of relief and relaxation. Retirement? Lake Havasu Arizona.
Born and raised in San Luis Obispo CA I don’t go to the valley often but drive through it. Everything you said seems true unfortunately. I will probably leave CA one day hopefully for Nevada or Arizona. Maybe Phoenix or Las Vegas. I prefer Las Vegas. I won’t be voting the way most Californians do lol
I'm 63, when I was a kid, early 1970s my grandpa told me when he was a young boy his dad n brothers would drive to about where lost lake is now, below friant dam. ( Before the dam was built) He said they used bamboo poles, with frog gigs attached and would gig salmon out of the San juaquin river. He said there were so many salmon you could walk across the river on there backs.( I saw some old pictures, there were a lot n big)
We can bring these lakes, rivers, and marshes back if we adopt vertical farming and if the state of California takes most of the land that is owned by the federal government. The federal government owns 40% of the states land. That land could be used for many things like agriculture. We could compensate the farmers who own land where lake Tulare is and give them land in exchanged for the land that lake Tulare would be. If we can find a way to use ocean water that too would solve this problem.
Whether it's more ignorant people settling IN THE FLOODPLAIN of the LA River back in the 1930s, or about how this video praises "man's wisdom and hard work" (around 4:35), when we go against Nature, we can even think we're out-smarting Nature, feeding the world, making progress, lifting people or of poverty, giving people opportunity for a better life, etc., but eventually those consequences will show
Lived here in kings county my whole 69 years used to hunt pheasant pretty much any field of cotton haven’t seen one in the wild for probably 20 years California used to be such a great state for everything. Sad anymore
We in the valley have all witnessed swaths of fertile farmland transform into sprawling suburbs and commercial districts void of any remnants of what once was. It's not only sad, but it's disastrous to the families still holding on to their artisanal farms as agribusiness conglomerates swallow up independent farmers or are bought out by developers seeking to build cookiecutter homes. Sad.
Oil was discovered in the Kettleman Hills in 1928. The oil dome was at one time the largest in the US and attracted a lot of speculators. The cities of Coalinga, Avenal, Kettleman City all flourished in the 1930s. My pop grew up in Avenal and Enlisted and was stationed initially at Camp San Luis Obispo in the 1940s, 86th Inf Div.
This video has truth to it, but a lot of new geography researched as changed the story. The Central Valley was a bay millions of years ago, but it wasn't connected to the ocean through San Francisco bay, it was connected from the south. The connection to the bay is actually one of the more recent geological events. Millions of years ago it was a bay, but mountains continued to push up and the valley was isolated from the ocean. The water drained out through Monterey bay and eventually the Central Valley was a massive freshwater lake. When erosion from high water broke through forming the Carquinez strait, San Francisco bay was formed and the water flowed out from there about half a million years ago. This drained much of the original lake, though the Central Valley remained mostly wetland, lakes, and rivers until Americans came and dammed everything up and piped out all the water to golf courses and lawns in the Los Angeles desert and transformed the most of the valley.
This region was used for 90% of 1940s through 1970s educational films whenever a High school scene was needed, or simply young folks walking down the street...California Central Valley towns were deemed "the most American" looking lol. I think it was primarily the lack of a pronounced regional accent.
My dad told me what it was like back then in the 1960s when he was a kid he said there was lots of water not that much gang crime now he said it Changed water is dry and crime in fresco is bad
I was born in 1948 and my grandma use to take us to the lake to fish where the rivers and the canals dumped into the Tulare lake. It looked like you were at the ocean you could not see the other side of it. The fishing was pretty good as well.
The snowmelt wasn't enough, the gd greedy farmers had to tap the aquifers until nothing is left. The floor of the valley has subsided more than 25 feet since this was filmed. The farmers only contribute 2% to the state's GDP but use 80% of the water. That is criminal.
Kind of a backwards way of looking it. They are producing most of the food in America and much of the world. Fruits and vegetables are low priced, because they are grown so abundantly. You'd rather they make basic food more expensive? So they'd have a higher GDP ratio? Nature needs to get some priority, not just in water but in physical space. But I never buy this anti-farming mentality that always conveniently leaves out most of the water waste is for grass lawns in Los Angeles.
@@scottanos9981 except their pumping the water into the ocean! lol they trying to remove the lake thats still trying to live. Instead of fix the man made disaster they rather continue it. Guess they dont care if cali is always burning and drought ridden.
@@jbudbuds4484 I see you have bought into all the false hype about California. The west always has had drought, long before it was developed into what it is now. And cali, as you call it, isn't always burning. That's just more media hype.
I live in the Central Valley now it's people working hard for water,welfare,gangs,central valley feeling alone by liberals the Central Valley votes for trump
4:20 sub "benefiting" for "dying from", nothing would be dead if farming would have been kept to just what the existing rivers could give without drying up, I mean, as a human one could see if one was taking too much. Today farmers have the audacity to say stop dumping 78% of "our" water into the ocean. Who in the hell is "our"? Farmers? WTH! Growing food for california was sustainable but shipping millions of tons around the globe to help feed 1/3 off the world population is just pure greed. A valley over 400 miles long north to south and 60 miles wide east to west is completely full of towns, ranches, farms and processing plants, grim stuff.
and dead indian bones, but they didn't kill 'em all though, they just massacred the most and rounded 'em up restricting them to certain parts but with no real deed to the land. it's clever stuff this u.s. govt of ours, very tricky n very clever
@@admirationlakes8994 One thing you don't hear abut is that during the dust bowl days there were a whole bunch of Arkansans and Oklahoman's killed as well. They came out here and the farmer hired them for 27 cents a day and when the crops were finished the farmers would only give then 1 penny a day .Take it and leave or else the farmers had there thugs to beat people to death throwed them in the rivers. There were a lot of white folk killed over the farmer greed as well. Now dont get me wrong there were good farmers as well.
Where were the nude, starved, on foot singers and TV personalities of the years 1940s to now in California state? Who fed and got houses up and drove trucks, fixed up motors and did everything that isn't voice and screen views kinda work? What do they get?
This is beautiful! We have been separated for so long from the processes required to produce the food we all eat every single day. This separation has allowed environmental movements to demonize the men and women who are our farmers and who feed us and grow the cotton that clothes us.
Utter agribusiness propaganda film. Describing the southern valley as a "wasteland" just because it brings little rain. Drought here is perpetual, only interrupted by brief periods of rain. It has been so for countless thousands of years before the farmers arrived, and will continue to be when they're gone.
There are a lot of angry people on here talking about how things use to be. We get it, your life didn’t turn out the way you wanted it and blame society.
well that's real chipper. what about maybe people tend to reflect on how beautiful this state was prior to all the non-stop immigration, development, exploitation of natural resources, etc etc etc. it's beautiful country out here
The whole world is The garden of abundance. Just plant the appropriate plant in the appropriate area. And LA, LV stop being water wasteful. LA. - lawns, pools, driveways. LV - 28 golf courses ? Now giant farms, monstrous farming machines. A field, done in an hour. No labour costs. So why are groceries expensive ? 🤺💐
Yet another stupid story about what actually happened in the once great valley. Man used his greed to destroy what was once so much more than this discrasefull video eludes to.
Los ciudadanos de California en 1860s veían que al gobierno mexicano no le importaba lo que sucediera con los ciudadanos californianos así que el californio de esa época decidió unirse a la “Union” de EE.UU. Nadie le robó nada a Mexico, al contrario se le pagó una suma al país mexicano. 🤦🏽♀️
The waters still flow from Camp Nelson down the north fork of the Tulare river . Where is Tulare lake ? Drained for a cotton farm . Man-made climate change.
We in the valley have all witnessed swaths of fertile farmland transform into sprawling suburbs and commercial districts void of any remnants of what once was. It's not only sad, but it's disastrous to the families still holding on to their artisanal farms as agribusiness conglomerates swallow up independent farmers or are bought out by developers seeking to build cookiecutter homes. Sad.
I’m 59 years old and I remember digging post holes for a fence in my back yard in Fresno back in the 70’s and finding sea shells in almost all the holes!
I remember finding shells too growing up in Lemoore.
Global FLOOD.
Did you live in tarpey?
Those ain’t sea shells. Fresno ain’t the bay
@@macysondheim you should try school
Back in the mid 70's, my grandmother showed me a picture from her youth of a sea going ship docked in Pinedale. Pinedale used to be a separate city on the San Joaquin River and a suburb of Fresno. Before all the rivers were dammed up, big ships could sail all the way to Fresno!
Ferrys also ran to the kings river and the tulare lake bottom, south of Corcoran
I would of never known I live by that area amazing amazing to know👌🔥
I have been in Fresno all my life and just the other day for the 1st time have learned about all this, Tulare Lake and traveling by boat in the Central Valley. As this year has been very wet year and the Tulare Lake has been filling up, history is revealing itself. Nice.
Too bad you don't have a copy of that picture. It is an interesting part of history
2:48
Greetings from Turlock in the Valley.
Greetings from Newman
Greetings from rancho cucamonga. Though I'm from Madera!
My grandparents Carl Emanuel Tatting and Emmy Wickstrom, we’re from Sweden & settled here in Modesto, my grandfather was the first one to settle there they had moved north from Chino California where they were beat farmers and had dairy cattle, there was a drought which drove them north.
When we were teenagers and we’d go visit my aunt Gert and uncle George, we got to go cruising down McHenry Avenue and we stopped at a hotdog stand this was in the 70s 😁
I have so many fond memories of all the picnics, visiting all the relatives who owned property and were in agriculture when I was a young girl in the 60s. It’s sad now, most of the properties been sold off before, my dad passed away I took six of my grandkids to meet him and he gave us a tour of the home that my grandfather helped build in the 1920s, and then one that he built for his family in the 1930’s. He also helped build the old bridge with lions that stood on the ends of it. My dad grew up on River Road, the river was in his backyard, he graduated from Modesto high and went on to Modesto Junior College and played football, he majored in history, then when the Korean war broke out, he went into the Navy. After the the war, he went on to become a California highway patrolman, he retired after 29 years.
I used to love visiting my grandma Emy there. My uncle George Tiura married my aunt Gertrude Tatting, uncle George was a blacksmith, he owned a shop and made blades and other things for farming machinery, my cousin David followed in his footsteps and ran the shop for many years. 🤗💗🌷
Nice to hear your memories, thank you. Does your family have any stories about Modesto's most famous person - George Lucas? :)
Men's wisdom help erased once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, the Tulare Lake from the map, depleted the ground water in central valley and sunk the land by 28ft.
1:42 Tulare lake still existed when this video was made. Amazing, now it's bone dry and has dropped by 30 feet.
2:13 so your greedy southern Las Angeles farmers just took the water...
6:42 so they used public works money through taxes to create rich farm land. Communistic oligarchy through capitalistic greed much?
Go look at what communists did to the Aral Sea.
It did not, it was entirely dry by the 1930s, save for very rare flooding. It was just a cartographic artifact.
@@NoalFarstrider What food do you plan on eating otherwise? It benefited everyone.
"When man used his 'wisdom' and energy to bring water to this land" he destroyed the biggest lake west of the Mississippi...
This wisdom feeds every single human being including you and every single person you know, have known, or will even know. Learn to appreciate this wisdom, hard work, and innovation. You call it "destroying"? How else would you eat my friend? From the grocery store?
@@jimmoses6617 Feed, but not greed! Well, if we haven't learnt anything about farming more sustainably in the last 150 years we're doomed anyway...
@@CARambolagen In 1884, Scottish travel writer Constance Gordon-Cumming would warn that "[e]ven the great Tulare lake itself is in danger of being gradually absorbed by the numerous canals and ditches with which the whole country is now being intersected...[t]he poor lakes have simply been left to starve-the rivers, whose surplus waters hitherto fed them, having now been bridled and led away in ditches and canals to feed the great wheat-fields."[22]
@@qbi4614 Sad!
@@jimmoses6617 vertical farming can still feed everyone and we can have our lakes and marshes back
Am I the only one here sad to be seeing the farming and industrial era fade away while we settle into the debt and demand era 😔
All the farmland is turning into suburbs
Or warehouses.
It’s sad. Farming is also important part of life
We in the valley have all witnessed swaths of fertile farmland transform into sprawling suburbs and commercial districts void of any remnants of what once was. It's not only sad, but it's disastrous to the families still holding on to their artisanal farms as agribusiness conglomerates swallow up independent farmers or are bought out by developers seeking to build cookiecutter homes. Sad.
Yep
As a person who grew up in the valley and bay it’s pretty koo it see such a old video like this
This needs to be shown to everyone in CA. Had no idea. Everything makes sense now. Hunting for sharks teeth in the desert, why anyone would settle out here etc.
Hnmm
Shark Tooth Hill in Bakersfield where I found a Megladon tooth about 4/5 years ago on a "pay to dig" site
This video has truth to it, but a lot of new geography researched as changed the story. The Central Valley was a bay of sorts, a very very long time ago, but it wasn't connected to the ocean through the bay, it was connected from the south. The connection to the bay is actually one of the more recent geological events.
Millions of years ago it was a bay, but mountains continued to push up and the valley was isolated from the ocean. The water drained out through Monterey bay and eventually the Central Valley was a massive freshwater lake. When erosion from high water broke through forming the Carquinez strait, San Francisco bay was formed and the water flowed out from there about half a million years ago. This drained much of the original lake, though the Central Valley remained mostly wetland, lakes, and rivers until Americans came and dammed everything up and stole all the water and transformed the most of the valley.
@@promontorium Millions of years ago...puh-leeze.
i love these videos
2023 and im here watching a mini documentary that is 6 times older than me, this is so cool
Greetings from Tulare County 559 Area.
Tracy checking in.
I’m here in 2024!
Central California native (Teviston & Tulare). When I think of home it never fails to remind me of the good land that I was raised on almost 48 years ago. I can still remember my cousins from the city visiting for summer and becoming jealous of our fresh water , sweet fruit and amazing produce. We knew our neighbors and cared for eachother.
What a time to be alive!
Here it is 2024 and there still is no decent highway across the delta to Stockton. We still use the old two lane levy road and cross over the three ancient draw bridges. Heavy traffic including big semi's is really beating the old route up and those levy's are about 130 years old as well.
My dad took us to shark tooth mountain in the south valley as kids. Mind blowing to imagine the ancient bay.
Hwy 99 and Valley of California as Micheal DADA - Z.mad corps Inc in Tulare county - USA ❤
They did dry up lake tulare it would have been the states biggest lake
At least we still have Lake Tahoe....for now...
Greetings from ceres ca off of withmore behind the McDonald's
Missin home. Stockton ca
Stockton is in rough shape. Roseville area is doing the best lately in the region.
If we would only properly use the system we had when this was filmed, we would have bountiful abundance of water. Voters should be aware that it is unscientific enviromarxist "solutions" for fish species declines that force CA and federal officials to release water from the system to the ocean in a dubious attempt to bring fish stocks back from near extinction. In fact, there are many causes of declining native fish, including introduced predator species such as striped bass which eats as much as half of each years' salmon run before they can reach the ocean. Other problems include sewage leaks along our rivers and the bay and pollution from run-off and other sources. When the state and federal government runs the Delta pumps at near capacity, many times as much water can be diverted to our reservoir system to be used as an abundant source for our homes and agricultural use. Wise policy should dictate creating water abundance which is very possible especially with the unspent bond money the state has already received. Demand responsible government water use and a policy of abundance, not manmade shortages and manmade droughts.
Hoe about less people live in California?
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Drove up the 5 freeway last weekend it’s so beautiful up there much less traffic than Southern California. Never seen so many orchards (mostly almond) also never felt true cold until I was in a field up there at night. I want to go back…
Born in and lived in Stockton 42 years. After I moved, I realized I'd never move back. I still go visit my folks, kids , grandkids and friends, but the minute I get to I-5, the obvious lower class of the Valley is sadly apparent. Even more stark is moving out of California - it's like a huge boulder off your chest. Your money goes so much farther, the people aren't so intense living just to work and working just to live, hours of life come back when your no longer spending over an hour daily commuting, the difference in available affordable and nicer homes is staggering, the lack of crazy endless rules and regulations just makes you take a huge breath of relief and relaxation. Retirement? Lake Havasu Arizona.
Born and raised in San Luis Obispo CA I don’t go to the valley often but drive through it. Everything you said seems true unfortunately. I will probably leave CA one day hopefully for Nevada or Arizona. Maybe Phoenix or Las Vegas. I prefer Las Vegas. I won’t be voting the way most Californians do lol
@@805NAVE good. Leave
@@jasonwilliams4159 Lemme guess: you're a Democrat.
@@ApartmentKing66 Nope, I just don’t like “in my day” people or people who complain and blame society for their failures instead of themselves.
@@jasonwilliams4159 you too.
Wow I didn't know central valley was a huge lake
I'm 63, when I was a kid, early 1970s my grandpa told me when he was a young boy his dad n brothers would drive to about where lost lake is now, below friant dam. ( Before the dam was built) He said they used bamboo poles, with frog gigs attached and would gig salmon out of the San juaquin river. He said there were so many salmon you could walk across the river on there backs.( I saw some old pictures, there were a lot n big)
We can bring these lakes, rivers, and marshes back if we adopt vertical farming and if the state of California takes most of the land that is owned by the federal government. The federal government owns 40% of the states land. That land could be used for many things like agriculture. We could compensate the farmers who own land where lake Tulare is and give them land in exchanged for the land that lake Tulare would be. If we can find a way to use ocean water that too would solve this problem.
Not one word about the decimation of Tulare Lake, 4 times the size of Lake Tahoe.
anyone else from kern county? :/
Yup brother
From San Luis Obispo county haha. We’re Neighbkrs haha
Kern County! For generations!!
THE LAND OF THE PARTIAL TRUTH.
which part?
@@suppylarue220 tulare lake. How boswell killed the lake and stops it from becoming permanent
thanks
Whether it's more ignorant people settling IN THE FLOODPLAIN of the LA River back in the 1930s, or about how this video praises "man's wisdom and hard work" (around 4:35), when we go against Nature, we can even think we're out-smarting Nature, feeding the world, making progress, lifting people or of poverty, giving people opportunity for a better life, etc., but eventually those consequences will show
The solution is fascism.
@@JohnSmith-dd8bf of course, line them up.
@@JohnSmith-dd8bf ha ha, your kidding, right?
@@fisheyelens876 conservatives think any kind of responsible regulation is fascist.
What the hell is this comment section
I have been in Fresno most of my 61 years. Would love to see an update as there have been a lot of changes.
My spanish speaking family always chuckles when driving past manteca
Very interesting.
Lived here in kings county my whole 69 years used to hunt pheasant pretty much any field of cotton haven’t seen one in the wild for probably 20 years
California used to be such a great state for everything. Sad anymore
We in the valley have all witnessed swaths of fertile farmland transform into sprawling suburbs and commercial districts void of any remnants of what once was. It's not only sad, but it's disastrous to the families still holding on to their artisanal farms as agribusiness conglomerates swallow up independent farmers or are bought out by developers seeking to build cookiecutter homes. Sad.
And now the water table is exhausted and the soil is all dead.
:(
But I luv this video and keep coming back!
california is enrich by the sierra mountains
Please consider waterwheels all along these canals powering genarators...!
this!
waterwheels? the dam is hydroelectric. it can produce gigawatts of ample, clean energy. no need for burdensome water wheels
J. G. Boswell advertising. What about the death of Tulare Lake, Buena Vista Lake and Kern Lake? Stolen and destroyed!
Oil was discovered in the Kettleman Hills in 1928. The oil dome was at one time the largest in the US and attracted a lot of speculators. The cities of Coalinga, Avenal, Kettleman City all flourished in the 1930s. My pop grew up in Avenal and Enlisted and was stationed initially at Camp San Luis Obispo in the 1940s, 86th Inf Div.
No mentioning of Traver?
London
Any abandoned treasure or loot ?
MOAR
When this documentary was made, my family had only been living there for about 100 years.
Good Job California
Reedley baby
This video has truth to it, but a lot of new geography researched as changed the story. The Central Valley was a bay millions of years ago, but it wasn't connected to the ocean through San Francisco bay, it was connected from the south. The connection to the bay is actually one of the more recent geological events.
Millions of years ago it was a bay, but mountains continued to push up and the valley was isolated from the ocean. The water drained out through Monterey bay and eventually the Central Valley was a massive freshwater lake. When erosion from high water broke through forming the Carquinez strait, San Francisco bay was formed and the water flowed out from there about half a million years ago. This drained much of the original lake, though the Central Valley remained mostly wetland, lakes, and rivers until Americans came and dammed everything up and piped out all the water to golf courses and lawns in the Los Angeles desert and transformed the most of the valley.
Madera county what up
This region was used for 90% of 1940s through 1970s educational films whenever a High school scene was needed, or simply young folks walking down the street...California Central Valley towns were deemed "the most American" looking lol. I think it was primarily the lack of a pronounced regional accent.
Coronet??? 8:49 DELTA Warehouse Company?🤨
sadly there's drought now
And it’s their fault and they wanna blame everyone else 😂
There was drought in the 70s. And the 80s. And flooding, some years. So it goes.
Crazy the thought it ran out of San Francisco Bay I the beginning
My dad told me what it was like back then in the 1960s when he was a kid he said there was lots of water not that much gang crime now he said it Changed water is dry and crime in fresco is bad
I was born in 1948 and my grandma use to take us to the lake to fish where the rivers and the canals dumped into the Tulare lake. It looked like you were at the ocean you could not see the other side of it. The fishing was pretty good as well.
The snowmelt wasn't enough, the gd greedy farmers had to tap the aquifers until nothing is left. The floor of the valley has subsided more than 25 feet since this was filmed. The farmers only contribute 2% to the state's GDP but use 80% of the water. That is criminal.
Kind of a backwards way of looking it. They are producing most of the food in America and much of the world. Fruits and vegetables are low priced, because they are grown so abundantly. You'd rather they make basic food more expensive? So they'd have a higher GDP ratio?
Nature needs to get some priority, not just in water but in physical space. But I never buy this anti-farming mentality that always conveniently leaves out most of the water waste is for grass lawns in Los Angeles.
At least the drought is over this year. The record breaking snowpack should kick the can of the problem another couple years down the road 😞
@@scottanos9981 except their pumping the water into the ocean! lol they trying to remove the lake thats still trying to live. Instead of fix the man made disaster they rather continue it. Guess they dont care if cali is always burning and drought ridden.
Shut up liberal it’s food
@@jbudbuds4484 I see you have bought into all the false hype about California.
The west always has had drought, long before it was developed into what it is now. And cali, as you call it, isn't always burning. That's just more media hype.
traver london reedley selma kingsburg is where i am from
I live in the Central Valley now it's people working hard for water,welfare,gangs,central valley feeling alone by liberals the Central Valley votes for trump
Richard Michael McDonnell Yeah keep voting Hilary and shaving with Gillette razors Libtard!
Fuck trump
kern county has so many mexicans yet we’re still a republican county -_-
@@burnt.norton cause they can't vote
Bruh you talk about your town like its representative of the entire Central valley. Things are alright where im a5
I only watch this so I will do well on my test
good job
GPT-4 is way better.
Water falling is lost power. !
Do a modern version with this narrators voice!
Ying is the Chinese president King of Ying dynasty west coast America
Our California histories were not told
Selma grows all the grapes now
you think selma has hella grapes? you should see delano
Lodi.
4:20 sub "benefiting" for "dying from", nothing would be dead if farming would have been kept to just what the existing rivers could give without drying up, I mean, as a human one could see if one was taking too much. Today farmers have the audacity to say stop dumping 78% of "our" water into the ocean. Who in the hell is "our"? Farmers? WTH! Growing food for california was sustainable but shipping millions of tons around the globe to help feed 1/3 off the world population is just pure greed. A valley over 400 miles long north to south and 60 miles wide east to west is completely full of towns, ranches, farms and processing plants, grim stuff.
and dead indian bones, but they didn't kill 'em all though, they just massacred the most and rounded 'em up restricting them to certain parts but with no real deed to the land. it's clever stuff this u.s. govt of ours, very tricky n very clever
@@admirationlakes8994 One thing you don't hear abut is that during the dust bowl days there were a whole bunch of Arkansans and Oklahoman's killed as well. They came out here and the farmer hired them for 27 cents a day and when the crops were finished the farmers would only give then 1 penny a day .Take it and leave or else the farmers had there thugs to beat people to death throwed them in the rivers. There were a lot of white folk killed over the farmer greed as well. Now dont get me wrong there were good farmers as well.
Where were the nude, starved, on foot singers and TV personalities of the years 1940s to now in California state? Who fed and got houses up and drove trucks, fixed up motors and did everything that isn't voice and screen views kinda work? What do they get?
good point
This is beautiful! We have been separated for so long from the processes required to produce the food we all eat every single day. This separation has allowed environmental movements to demonize the men and women who are our farmers and who feed us and grow the cotton that clothes us.
Anthony why in hell would you comment something like that
If we wanted new school clothes, the pisca=$$$$$!🎉
Sun maid rasins...grapes ✨️ 💖
Utter agribusiness propaganda film. Describing the southern valley as a "wasteland" just because it brings little rain. Drought here is perpetual, only interrupted by brief periods of rain. It has been so for countless thousands of years before the farmers arrived, and will continue to be when they're gone.
There are a lot of angry people on here talking about how things use to be. We get it, your life didn’t turn out the way you wanted it and blame society.
well that's real chipper. what about maybe people tend to reflect on how beautiful this state was prior to all the non-stop immigration, development, exploitation of natural resources, etc etc etc. it's beautiful country out here
@@admirationlakes8994 yeah, it was really pretty before 1846
They forgot to mention the Mexicans that helped pick them 🤧
The Mexicans were not as prevalent in the 40s.
Armenians
No one cares
The whole world is
The garden of abundance.
Just plant the appropriate plant in the appropriate area.
And LA, LV
stop being water wasteful.
LA. - lawns, pools,
driveways.
LV - 28 golf courses ?
Now giant farms, monstrous
farming machines.
A field, done in an hour.
No labour costs.
So why
are groceries expensive ?
🤺💐
Russia use to owned most of what makes California...
Wrong Spain
Loo they dont even mention the mexican people on this video doing all the hard work.
shortymackinem Mexicans came later
Mexicans were here before the anglo.
Daniel Hanson Mexicans came later lol 🤣🤣🤣this dude crazy 🇲🇽👊
@@rubenraya3310 you're acting like they couldn't leave and come back
@@danielhanson2417 The came much later for ag.
Yet another stupid story about what actually happened in the once great valley. Man used his greed to destroy what was once so much more than this discrasefull video eludes to.
Usa robó california, utah, Texas,Colorado, Arizona a México busquennnn
Dylan jhonson que bueno que los robo porque Mexico todavia es un pais sin orginazion. Tambien se te olvido Nuevo Mexico fue comprado tambien.
Los ciudadanos de California en 1860s veían que al gobierno mexicano no le importaba lo que sucediera con los ciudadanos californianos así que el californio de esa época decidió unirse a la “Union” de EE.UU. Nadie le robó nada a Mexico, al contrario se le pagó una suma al país mexicano. 🤦🏽♀️
Nope it just called spoils of war . just like how Mexican beat the Spanish and French
Imagínese lo jodido que estubiera el estado si estubiese aún bajo el gobierno Mexicano.
México robó México a España busquennnn 😳😳😳
LIES
Some of it was not accurate for sure.
The waters still flow from Camp Nelson down the north fork of the Tulare river . Where is Tulare lake ?
Drained for a cotton farm . Man-made climate change.
We in the valley have all witnessed swaths of fertile farmland transform into sprawling suburbs and commercial districts void of any remnants of what once was. It's not only sad, but it's disastrous to the families still holding on to their artisanal farms as agribusiness conglomerates swallow up independent farmers or are bought out by developers seeking to build cookiecutter homes. Sad.
So the farmers didn’t sell their farmers to developers?