The 1930 California Census serves as a vivid snapshot of a state on the precipice of profound change. Captured just months after the 1929 stock market crash, it documents a population caught between the unbridled optimism of the "Roaring Twenties" and the grim reality of the Great Depression. 📈 A Population in Flux

Signal Hill and Huntington Beach records show thousands of "Roughnecks" and engineers flocking to the oil fields.

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