My family also left Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, but they settled in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Because of the growing of fruits and vegetables they were able to get jobs. My grandparents had a grocery store in the little town of Porter. I remember my grandfather telling me that people would come into the store to buy groceries and he knew they did not have any money but they had children. So he would tell them to pay later and he knew they could not. When all the groceries were gone he just closed the store. My father and mother were already in california so they just followed. They opened a grocery store in california Verna Eichhorn