Pea Picker - Old Photo

[Rich Eagle]

I hadn't seen this one before. Kind of interesting?

"One pea picker's home. One-half mile off Highway 101 at Nipomo, California, February 1936 by Dorothea Lange."

[Jerry VanOoteghem]

He seems to be weighing his options...

BTW, I would not want to tangle with the woman(?) who's drawers are hanging on the line, in the distance!

[Wayne Sheldon]

I am fairly sure I have never seen this photo before. However, I am also pretty sure that I have seen another closer up photo of the same man sitting on the same running board. When I have a few minutes I will have to see if I can find it.

[Kaiser]

Good to see this guy has his Solar panel raised so he gets the most free energy to power his esprsso machine

[Rich Eagle]

This may be the photo you remember, Wayne.

It's another by Dorothea Lange. "Members of the roving army of fruit pickers". "The man is quoted as saying he picked peas from the Imperial Valley of Southern California to the northern Ukiah Valley of Mendocino Country."
Dorothea Lange was a pioneering documentary photographer who captured the hardships of the Great Depression in America. I have seen many of her pictures and don't always know she took them.
Great stuff.
Rich
Note, the front fender has had the stress relieved.
"Bless their little pea-pickin' hearts".
Tennessee Ernie Ford

[TXGOAT2]

That vehicle beings a new dimension to the phrase,"Driving home".
Artie Shaw: "Summit Ridge Drive" (1937?)

[Wayne Sheldon]

Thank you Rich E! That is one of the two I remember, I am fairly sure there was another one yet of him without the lady next to him. I didn't recall having seen either of them in recent years on my computer, and therefore didn't know whether I actually had them on the computer anymore or not. I had had a computer partial meltdown several years ago, and was fairly sure I did have it before then. The files salvaged from the partial meltdown are incomplete and somewhat scrambled, so it may still be in there lost heaven knows where? Every now and again I still stumble into photos hidden in bizarre places they do not belong in.
I was able to search out and find a lot of the photos my computer had lost by searching through a couple years of old forums. I spent some time in the last two evenings looking through over two thousand photos to see if I could find it, but it wasn't anywhere I would have put it.
Thank you for finding and sharing it again!

[TRDxB2]

Quality photos colorize nicely