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Lower right: Paul Ecke Sr.. The truck would head to the Encinitas Train Station to ship boxes of bare root poinsettias. Customers would plant them and they would grow into large plants. Cut poinsettias would then be harvested from them.
From left to right: Sue Kint, Paul Ecke Jr., Maureen Ecke (Paul's wife), Sue Kint's nephew. Sue was a Carltas Company business connection and Korean investor in one of the Carlsbad Projects.