"These fine vagabonds have made False Creek, Oregon's old depot their home away from homeless. False Creek, a former backwater, found itself booming with the discovery of oil in the county & the arrival of hopeful young men after the Great War. Soon came a branch line of the Union Pacific. Now, in 1931 with the depression dragging on and ticket sales disappearing like tickets in a strong wind, the town's incomplete passenger depot sits empty... with the exception of lost souls passing through on their way to anywhere but here."