Long Beach

Elly and her daughter escaped the sweltering city for the pleasures of Long Beach.

During the Depression, families helped each other out. The Kleins moved in with the Rubys in Long Beach.

Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors.

Walter Ruby hustled his way as a traveling silver salesman, with some career side trips into boxing promotion and medicinal alcohol.