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| Keywords: San Joaquin Valley, California. On the Freights. Two youngsters aged fifteen and sixteen traveling in the company of... - NARA - 532077.tif Scope and content San Joaquin Valley California On the Freights Two youngsters aged fifteen and sixteen traveling in the company of an older hobo Here they are returning to the train after having filled some empty whiskey bottles with drinking water at the railroad water tower The older one said He ain t et since yesterday morning And then Don t publish my pitcher in the papers If my paw saw it he d beat hell out of me I m sposed to be thumbing Their story was that they were returning from a visit to an uncle's in San Francisco to their home in southern California but their grimey appearance revealed they had been riding the freights for some time and traveling companions volunteered that they had come from Arizona In Fresno that evening town police booked them as vagrants and along with about fifteen others riding the same freights they were given sixty days General notes 532077 Local identifier 119-CAL-12 Federal Security Agency National Youth Administration 07/01/1939 - 09/17/1942 NARA-Author Partridge Rondal 1917- Photographer 8464464 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1940-05-11 Record group Record Group 119 Records of the National Youth Administration 1934 - 1945 Record group ARC 448 Study of Youth Photographs compiled 1940 - 1940 Series ARC 532065 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-119-CAL-12 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Rondal Partridge History of train surfing Train surfing in the United States Freight car surfing Open wagon riding trains | ||||