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Location: San Leandro, CA
Date: Apr 20, 1940
Agency: NYA
Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer)
Source: NARA (SPB)
Accession Number: 119-CAL-4-190

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San Leandro, California, April 20, 1940, Twenty years old, his high school education is over and college was never a part of his plan. His ambition is to "work into something" in the field of skilled trade. Meanwhile, odd jobs and periods of idleness. Movies provide an escape from his own sense of dislocation in society and his mind is open to their interpretations of life. The movie, "The Fighting 69th." idealizes war.