Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "Ernie Rubio spent nineteen years making bombs for Southern California military contractor Norris Industries. He was pink-slipped a few months short of his twenty-year retirement. Laid off without job or pension, Ernie went into denial and drifted for several years. Eventually, he faced reality. He moved in with his daughter and got a job as a school crossing guard. He likes the job, but the pay for protecting the lives of school children is one-quarter what he earned making bombs."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
School crossing guards--California--Los Angeles Traffic safety and children--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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