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“Just a few months before World War II broke out, Mydans was in California. A decade of economic crises had men like 54-year-old engineer Maurice J. Shannon searching for jobs wherever they could find them. Although the economy was recovering to the levels of the late 1920s, unemployment maintained a high, steady number throughout the following decade.”

[read a chapter from carl’s book “view from the edge of a storm”]

Carl Mydans, Unemployed Maurice J. Shannon, 54 year old construction engineer, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, 1939