Tehachapi Oldtimers Reunion
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsor


Join TVRPD and the City of Tehachapi for the annual Tehachapi Oldtimers Reunion! Family, friends and the community are invited to eat, drink and celebrate some of Tehachapi’s longest living citizens.
If you have lived in the Tehachapi area for at least forty years, or lived in the Tehachapi area over forty years ago, and want to become an “official” Oldtimer, please contact Claudia Elliott at tehachapioldtimers@gmail.com.
All official oldtimers will have an opportunity to pre-register for the event to guarantee a meal. The public is welcome and food is sold on a first come, first serve basis.
Looking to be a sponsor? Email Sarai Diaz at s.diaz@tvrpd.org or call (661)822-3228 ext 106
Date: | August 3,2025 |
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Time: | Registration opens at 10:30 |
Cost: | Cash only, $20 for guests and oldtimers who do not RSVP |
Location: | Philip Marx Central Park, at Mojave and “E” St downtown (map) |
Included: | Lunch (no food to go) and water. Beer and soda available for purchase. |
Contact: | Email: tehachapioldtimers@gmail.com or Call TVRPD (661)822-3228 |
Tehachapi Oldtimers Reunion 2019 5) Marybelle Carrol Gassaway is shown with two of her daughters, Susie Gassaway Young and Marianne Gassaway Critchfield.

5) Among those at an Oldtimers Picnic in the 1970s were Walt Dye, Art Porter and Bud Cummings.

In 1974, Nuwa (Kawaiisu) Indian basketmaker Ramona Greene, 82, was the oldest woman in attendance, and she is shown with master of ceremonies Bud Cummings.

The Tehachapi Oldtimers Picnic in City Park in 1970.

Among those in attendance at the very first Oldtimers Picnic in 1959 were Tommy Eveleth, Delmer Haigh, Perry Brite, Geroge Haigh, Sam Cuddeback, Vance Brite, Jerry Shields, Rowena Leiva Eberhardt, Maude Vance Jenkins, Irene Chitwood Duty, Ernie Leiva Yorba, Myrtle Williamson K

In 1984, longtime schoolteacher Gertrude Phelps, 91, was the oldest woman in attendance at the Tehachapi Oldtimers Picnic and she is shown planting a kiss on Claude Wells, 93, her former school principal and namesake of Wells Elementary School who was the oldest man in attenda






Videos of Oldtimers!