Typed Manuscript: Long Beach California --- Yokel's Paradise.

[Los Angeles]: N.p., 1926. Six leaves (8 1/2 x 11 inches), typed on rectos only. Staple three hole notpaper. Opening leaf with some offsetting and an old crease in the middle, else very good.This article was meant for publication in the May 1926 issue of Haldeman-Julius Month. We cannot determine if it was actually published or not but it is a fine article in the inimitable Adamic style. Adamic, a highly acclaimed author, journalist, and translator, often used his writing to highlight and advocate places of diversity in the United States, California being a prime subject. Adamic was especially fond of poking fun at all the MidWesterners who moved to Southern California for the easy life.The gist of the article can be read in the secong paragraph - "Of all the smaller cities in the country. of which I have seen a good many, Long Beach, is to me one of the most interesting, just as Los Angeles, which is but an exaggerated Long Beach, is, among the larger ones. Here is Gopher Prairie and Zenith rolled into one with a fourth-rate Coney Island for a bit of sickly color, and a bum suggestion of Atlantic City for a dash of class. Long Beach is Gopher Prairie multiplied by forty, a few of its buildings grown ten stories tall--a bigger and better Main Street, in which even the soulful Carol Kennicott might manage to function and explain herself. It is Zenith, and more--George F. Babbitt's dream-city come true on the giggling shore of California." Apparently Adamic was a fan of Sinclair Lewis.