Jamie York (Henry Wright)

Henry Wright went looking for adventure in the Great Depression.

I never missed a meal, but I postponed a few.

We went to Oakland on the Chili Pepper and crossed the bay on the Hobo's Ferry to San Francisco.

The skid row was full of bums.

About noon, we passed the St.

Francis Church.

There were about 2,000 depression stiffs lined up.

The priest was giving each a nickel as they filed by one at a time, some going around the block to line up again.

It's not a very fast way of getting rich.

We celebrated Christmas in Oakland.

It was on the main drag on New Year's Eve in Oakland that I got in another inevitable fight.

It lasted nearly a block past a swell theater and ended up when a voice behind me said, beat it, the cops.

I escaped down a side street and down an alley.

I met a fellow on the corner of Wall Street who, from casual observance, would have been taken for an office worker or a dapper salesman with his Panama hat, his nice suit, and his sports shoes.

After I introduced myself, he said he wasn't having much luck.

I thought that seemed like a good day's work at 50 cents an hour.

I'm Jamie York.

I was the voice of Henry Wright, my grandfather.

I'm Lawrence Wu, and I played Fong.