Long Beach Naval Shipyard

You've got to start sometime.

From Terminal Island to Long Beach Naval Shipyard, we stop at every night watchman's shack, hand out dozens of my cards, show the picture maybe 40, 50 times.

We even stop by the Union Hiring Hall, where there's 60 or 70 men playing cards, talking and sleeping.

I post a note on their bulletin board and ask around, get a lot of blank stares, and I leave.

Anyone else?

Well, I'm Ernest McBride out of Long Beach and Lakewood, California, and I'm retired from Long Beach Naval Shipyard as a project manager and a congressional and public affairs officer.

Been retired now for like about going on 20, about 29 years now, since 97, when the shipyard closed down.

So now I've been you know, been a member in this area in Long Beach because my family grew up here.