The Standard Oil Company entered the substantial oil industry in Kern County in 1902 to develop its holdings in the Kern River Oil Field . With the construction of the Jastro Building , the company moved its Central California operations to Bakersfield . At the time it was built , the building was the first commercial building in the downtown commercial district built across the city 's G Street . It is one of the finest examples of its type of architecture to survive the devastating 1952 Kern County earthquake relatively unscathed
1952 Kern County earthquake
1952 Kern County earthquake
Jastro Building