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Hard Rock Casino Tejon brings 150,000 square feet of gaming space — and some Hollywood pizzazz — to Kern County.

The casino will create approximately 1,100 regional jobs, with plans for a 400-room hotel and concert venue in Phase 2.

Next time you’re driving the Grapevine and nearing the forest of oil rigs on the outskirts of Bakersfield, look for a six-story guitar.

That would be the Hard Rock Casino Tejon, whose opening on Thursday brings industrial-strength Indian gaming — and some Hollywood pizzazz — to a territory better known for cowboy hats, farmland and petroleum extraction.

The Tejon casino stands in the rural community of Mettler, near the convergence of Interstate 5 and

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