[Mortimer Snavely]

All my father's family piled into a Model T and drove to California looking for work back then. The Depression turned that part of the country into something resembling some of the poorer parts of a third world country. They all settled in the San Fernando Valley.

[philman_36]

The Depression turned that part of the country into something resembling some of the poorer parts of a third world country.
My Grandfather used to drive back and forth between Romayor and Beaumont to work at the shipyard there during WWII.
Between that, trapping/fishing, raising worms, forest fire fighting and various other odd jobs they survived. My family once fit your illustration perfectly. The "poor folk" stories I could tell...