May. 3rd, 2012

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I just looked at the 1940 census, and while I never found the  enumeration district for my neighborhood, I found some that were close by. The pages first listed the people living in houses, but the last ten pages were men coded T (transient?). These men were from all over the country, and the world. Some were quite old, but I think they were fruit bums and seasonal agricultural workers. The US was still in a depression, and these were the guys that Steinbeck wrote about.
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I've found the census data, but for some reason the basic street names may or may not be written down, and the numbers are always sequential ie: 523, 524, 525...and these numbers are not the modern address. I found a house that stands a block away, because the guy was a grocer, and his store, painted with his name, is still standing next to the house.

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