RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Along 66, Nov. 2019: Weedpatch Dust Bowl Festival and Camp
NOVEMBER 15-- End of an era? Final Dust Bowl Festival held at Weedpatch Camp in California.
It was made famous in John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath. It was the 30th and last festival as the survivors of it are getting too old to continue with it. (Evidently they were guests of honor.) It was held in Bakersfield, California and built in 1935by the WPA to house Dust Bowl refugees.
From the Visit Bakersfield Site.
Officially known as the Arvin Federal Government Camp, the migrant worker center most notably featured in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
The camp was a government rescue center for distressed migrant workers fleeing from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Various scenes from the 1940 movie adaptation of the novel were filmed here.
It still aids migrants today.
--RoadDog
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