That's gotta be February 9th, 1989!!! The same day that Pat Askren and Roger Campbell skied down the bunny slope at the former site of the train depot!!!

I see it...snow! Ice or something! But isn't that a red 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air across the street? That car would have been 22 years old by that time (1989), but it is possible!

Oh, God...sorry Pancone...I wasn't looking again! I see the little white foreign car on the right side of the photo now. I've been working too hard today.

That '57 belongs to Frank Bolanos who had that shop at the time...he still has the '57 but he's no longer at that location...The Fillmore Gazette offices were in the Masonic Lodge building which is pictured here...it is no longer standing, it went down after the Northridge Earthquake...That was the last time it snowed in Fillmore... previously, it snowed on January 4th, 1974, and before that on January 21 & 22, 1962, and before that in 1957 & 1949, but I don't know the exact dates...

Gosh...and to think Frank's '57 Chevy is still standing after 51+ years! I remember seeing the first 1957 Chevrolet's coming in to the dealership in my city where I grew up. The first thing I touched on one of them was the chrome strip on the "fin" on the left rear quarter panel. I never forgot that. I tried to get my father to buy one for my 15th birthday, (greedy, huh?), but he said, "forget it". We already had two cars at our home at the time, my dad's 1957 Cadillac convertible in a Robin's Egg Blue color, white top, and my mom's 1956 Buick Roadmaster 2-door, in Black and Yellow. Looked like a giant bee! All I had was my green Raleigh English bike, until I earned the money washing cars at a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in my City, when I bought a used 1952 Buick Super (hardtop-convertible style), 2 door. That "straight-8" went like a rocket. Looks like Frank's '57 is a convertible. I cannot tell, but it is a 2-door. It is hard to imagine that Fillmore had snow! I could bet on some orange crops damaged as a result. Thanks for the joist of memories, Pancone.

It's a two door hard top...

Thanks for the style info, Pancone. If you ever see Frank, tell him it's great to see folks like him retain such memorabilia and vintage automobiles from our past, that only history and people our ages ("old", I mean) can remember those good times, and appreciate these vehicles. I wished I had kept some of my cars. If we ever get onto "cars" and history about them, I will make a short list of those vehicles I had. Wished I kept some of them! Hindsight is 20/20, ya know!