Carol Steinbeck designed the small Greenwood Lane house, built in 1936, now in Monte Sereno. A sign on the fence read Arroyo del Ajo. The couple lived there until 1938, then moved to a ranch on Brush Road.
While in Los Gatos, Steinbeck reported on California’s migrant labor camps for the series The Harvest Gypsies, which became the foundation of The Grapes of Wrath.