Photoessays Biography Credits	Building a Boat
	Location: Los Angeles, CA Date: May 1, 1940 Agency: NYA Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Source: NARA (SPB) Accession Number: 119-CAL-3-195 Enlarged Image
	2 of 10 Los Angeles, Calif, May 1, 1940, This twenty-three year old is a journeymen carpenter at present working as an apprentice bricklayer in order to learn more than one trade. The boat he is building in his spare time both serves as an interesting hobby and is expected to provide him with inexpensive living quarters. Should he fail to find other employment, he plans to use the boat a means of livelihood by becoming a fisherman. When the keel was laid, he had dreams of escaping to a South Sea Island paradise; his plans have subsequently become more practical.