2006 SHR might've given TBV a good look at the leisure class; Stanford Golf Course opened in 1930. (TIL Oswald was a nephew)

https://allpoetry.com/The-Golf--Links

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/us/an-inconspicuous-consu...

Rolfe wrote a children's book, which would be in keeping with our contemporary non-governing elite profile?

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Goosenbury-Pilgrims-C...

EDIT: and Veblen had a shack in La Honda; I don't know what that area was like then or what it's like now, but to me LH says drum circles, dazers, and funny smelling cigarettes that just don't stay lit.