The main street, Academy, runs through the town. All the streets parallel to it are numbered, and all the ones that cut across it named after the alphabets. A railroad track runs parallel to Academy, behind most of the packing houses. The town is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas, and is surrounded by vineyards and orchards on all sides. The majority of the population is Chicano.
Whites are a minority here.
Also this is the town with the largest number of second-hand cars that I've seen. In June, the first month I worked there, work was slow. Due to the weather in May, the peaches did not ripen in time. I, together with around fifty other women workers who manned the giant monster machine, worked an average of four hours every other day. I hardly earned anything the whole month.