This is my mother Ruth (Addy) May and father Ross May circa 1939. Picture taken somewhere in Wyoming where my mom is from. Dad is from Nebraska. Two years later in 1941 they moved to Richmond, CA where my dad got a job in the Richmond shipyards where they built Liberty ships for WWII. I was born and raised in Richmond in 1949.
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...