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   The Fourth in a Line of Thumbers

Location: Bakersfield, CA
Date: Apr 25, 1940
Agency: NYA
Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer)
Source: NARA (SPB)
Accession Number: 119-CAL-14-26

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The fourth in a line of thumbers at Bakersfield city limits. A distinct code of ethics has developed around hitchhiking. It is improper to thumb from just in front of another's established "stand," and a reasonable distance must be established further down the road. April 25, 1940.