In one sense this is kind of personal. My dear friend the late Hak Martinez would always for years make references to the “Ham and
Eggers.” What is peculiar is when the Ham & Egg movement was strong, Hank was a small child. No doubt he was probably influenced by his father.

Originally known as the Ham & Egg movement, the latter half of the name evolved into”Eggers.” It was a Southern California movement wherein people over 50 years old would receive a pension of $30. Some thought these residents, when they received that check would splurge on “ham and eggs” for breakfast, hence the name.

In 1938, it appeared on the California Ballot as Proposition 25. It was narrowly defeated. The movement’s idea lingered on, as my friend was a testament. Such initiatives of the late1930s, had an unforeseen challenge in World War II where everything went by the wayside and what was started in the late1930s was abandoned and forgotten by 1946, when life had some sense normalcy. Past initiatives were either no longer relevant or were forgotten.

Tim