An American Family's Ups and Downs as Middle-Class Migrants in the California of the 1930S
by
Dorothy Lockard Bristol, Nancy Lockard Gallop
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Our 1935 black Oldsmobile and heavily-loaded trailer drew hostile looks as we drove into Bakersfield and stopped at a shady park to check the tires. When Mother, Daddy, we two girls and our young brother, Skippy, got out, two work-hardened men in ranch straw hats and short-sleeved cotton shirts stood...