Characters
- Barry Jerome "Jerryberry" Jansen - "newstaper" (television correspondent and cameraman) for Central Broadcasting Association (CBA). Father Eric brought the family to ruin when attempting to participate in the massive investment rush for the then-burgeoning stock in displacement booths.
- George Lincoln Bailey - CBA editor
- Wash Evans - host for CBA's Tonight Show flagship news program
- Janice Wolfe - friend of Jerryberry
- Nils Kjerulf - manager of Los Angeles International, now far from the major depot of mass transit of yesteryear due to the decrease in need for air transport
- Gregory Scheffer - customs guard.
- Dr. Robin "Robbie" Whyte - inventor of the displacement booth
- Harry McCord - former Los Angeles Police Department Chief.
- Tahitian ticket-taker - formerly owned a house until squatters drove him and his family out and moved in
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