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Dust Bowl Days-Lamont-CA 10-20-2012

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A well-kept secret, except for a couple of thousand who knew about it.
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A well-kept secret, except for a couple of thousand who knew about it.

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  • A well-kept secret, except for a couple of thousand who knew about it.
  • Note the grapes, no longer of wrath, behind the sign.
  • The Lamont migrant camp is where Dorothea Lange shot her famous series of photos. Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" was written about the Lamont Okie camp, still in the heart of Southern grape country.
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  • They don't make tires like they used to. Thank goodness!
  • Thousands of Oakies arrived in Californin in vehicles like this.
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  • Evejn I remember these!
  • A 1935 washing machine and mangle.
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  • Surprisingly, the camp's old timers and their descendants seem to be solidly Conservative!
  • The Lamont school's cafeteria given over for a day as a Dust Bowl museum.
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