Past Tense: California: State of Change
As Seen by The New York Times
November 10, 2018
In California, there were deserts and mountains, vast farmlands and a thousand miles of publicly owned beach. There were people from everywhere and opportunity that only a country like America could offer the working man or woman, and their children, too. From San Francisco to San Diego, from Hollywood to the world, California offered succor, health and, oddly, anonymity. If you didn’t like the view, you moved. If the boss gave you grief, you dropped him.
The sun shone mercilessly, but no one asked for mercy.
Everybody was rich because anything was possible.
