1930s USA - Real Photos of the Great Depression - Colorized
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Date: 2023-12-20
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vintage
It's strange. we are seeing a similar crisis growing in todays world, but it's global. Especially surrounding homelessness, but it's almost backwards from the issues before? There is a lot of land and lot of food but food is being thrown away and giant buildings are left vacant while people go hungry and homeless on the streets? Back then people had more lenience on what we'd call home and how we'd eat, but they could not afford things like shoes or keep a job. Now people are making more money than ever across the globe and there are so many jobs but not enough shoes to fill them with the correct skill sets. We can buy whatever we want whenever and have it on our front door literally within a day across the planet! But housing is where our money is eaten up and decent food to eat costs three times what it did 8 years ago. Honestly. we aren't in a depression yet, but I feel growing pains across the planet. Either we are going to do VERY well soon or do poorly and have to deal with the consequences of our need to fill the spiritual void of each other with items and things. Home and good food is always what brings people together. not items.
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It's strange. we are seeing a similar crisis growing in todays world, but it's global. Especially surrounding homelessness, but it's almost backwards from the issues before? There is a lot of land and lot of food but food is being thrown away and giant buildings are left vacant while people go hungry and homeless on the streets? Back then people had more lenience on what we'd call home and how we'd eat, but they could not afford things like shoes or keep a job. Now people are making more money than ever across the globe and there are so many jobs but not enough shoes to fill them with the correct skill sets. We can buy whatever we want whenever and have it on our front door literally within a day across the planet! But housing is where our money is eaten up and decent food to eat costs three times what it did 8 years ago. Honestly. we aren't in a depression yet, but I feel growing pains across the planet. Either we are going to do VERY well soon or do poorly and have to deal with the consequences of our need to fill the spiritual void of each other with items and things. Home and good food is always what brings people together. not items.
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-bhmichigan8731
The Great Depression was very interesting if one studies it below the surface. The following depression occurred mostly (for the majority of people) because of the lack of credit. businesses > average businesses could not do / stay in business because they could not borrow money to stay open or go on as they had been > and I am not talking major businesses them too, but I am talking on the street level so to say. also kind of amazing how it show the greed of people. as many people went from Super Wealthy for the time to nothing overnight > because they invested everything in the markets because it was easy money if you had money. well money on paper. it was easy money until it wasn't. kind of sounds like today doesn't it. Greed kills, debt kills.
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The Great Depression was very interesting if one studies it below the surface. The following depression occurred mostly (for the majority of people) because of the lack of credit. businesses > average businesses could not do / stay in business because they could not borrow money to stay open or go on as they had been > and I am not talking major businesses them too, but I am talking on the street level so to say. also kind of amazing how it show the greed of people. as many people went from Super Wealthy for the time to nothing overnight > because they invested everything in the markets because it was easy money if you had money. well money on paper. it was easy money until it wasn't. kind of sounds like today doesn't it. Greed kills, debt kills.
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-johanv4668
historic bad times for normal people. after they invented a central (federal) bank about every 7 years there is a crisis, and rich people get more money.
o yeh, and the federal bank is not federal, it is just a bunch of -you know who- type of people that are bank owners.
they raise intrestrates make a new crisis and get rich.
so go to school learn a profession go work all your live and pay tax, is a bad idea.
rich people don. t work they let some one else work ( and they pay tax )
als the crisis didn't start in 1929, it started when the roaring 20's had low intrest rate. and after several intrest rate hikes. then people got into problems.
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historic bad times for normal people. after they invented a central (federal) bank about every 7 years there is a crisis, and rich people get more money.
o yeh, and the federal bank is not federal, it is just a bunch of -you know who- type of people that are bank owners.
they raise intrestrates make a new crisis and get rich.
so go to school learn a profession go work all your live and pay tax, is a bad idea.
rich people don. t work they let some one else work ( and they pay tax )
als the crisis didn't start in 1929, it started when the roaring 20's had low intrest rate. and after several intrest rate hikes. then people got into problems.
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-danielhackney7806
Get ready for the next Great Depression, climate activists in our Government are going to wreak havoc on the economy. Heavy regulations and dumping conventional energy sources are going to make basic living expenses higher and higher. Our auto makers have already LOST billions of dollars on electric cars that nobody wants. So they will have to raise price on conventional cars to recoup the loss.
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Get ready for the next Great Depression, climate activists in our Government are going to wreak havoc on the economy. Heavy regulations and dumping conventional energy sources are going to make basic living expenses higher and higher. Our auto makers have already LOST billions of dollars on electric cars that nobody wants. So they will have to raise price on conventional cars to recoup the loss.
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-johnpohlson9860
One big thing not mentioned in detail, not only was there no money, but because of the dust bowl, draught and bad farming practices food was scare. When my mother got older and she first saw brussel sprouts she thought they were little cabbages because when she was young food in their vegetable garden would not develop properly because of the severe drought.
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One big thing not mentioned in detail, not only was there no money, but because of the dust bowl, draught and bad farming practices food was scare. When my mother got older and she first saw brussel sprouts she thought they were little cabbages because when she was young food in their vegetable garden would not develop properly because of the severe drought.
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-Ilovevintage77
My grandparents were born in 1919 and 1923 just before the Great Depression and they knew how to stretch a nickel and reuse everything! It makes sense that my grandfather never threw away packaging and would save old tissue boxes for what? Who knows but it was that mentality of save bc you never knew when you might get more that was instilled in him.
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My grandparents were born in 1919 and 1923 just before the Great Depression and they knew how to stretch a nickel and reuse everything! It makes sense that my grandfather never threw away packaging and would save old tissue boxes for what? Who knows but it was that mentality of save bc you never knew when you might get more that was instilled in him.
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vintage
Now that was real struggle back then, and yet here we are in 2023, with a relatively great economy despite the influence of a pandemic and international turmoil, and yet we still have snowflakes, trump cultists complaining about everyone and everything. Grow up and take responsibility for your own actions.
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Now that was real struggle back then, and yet here we are in 2023, with a relatively great economy despite the influence of a pandemic and international turmoil, and yet we still have snowflakes, trump cultists complaining about everyone and everything. Grow up and take responsibility for your own actions.
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vintage
Count our blessing, folks.
I would like to point out how modestly and well-dressed a vast majority of people are out in public, or those who could afford such clothing it sees. Today, many can afford modest clothing, but choose to expose so much skin instead. It is such a sad scandal.
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Count our blessing, folks.
I would like to point out how modestly and well-dressed a vast majority of people are out in public, or those who could afford such clothing it sees. Today, many can afford modest clothing, but choose to expose so much skin instead. It is such a sad scandal.
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-tomk3732
Now imagine how poor countries such as Poland were at the same time. US was considered rich - the guy whom lost all on stock market did have a car - at that time there were almost no cars in Poland. Most people here on pictures do not look like they are starving.
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Now imagine how poor countries such as Poland were at the same time. US was considered rich - the guy whom lost all on stock market did have a car - at that time there were almost no cars in Poland. Most people here on pictures do not look like they are starving.
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vintage
Where do you get the information for the photo captions? 1500 immigrants being expelled to mexico for taking jobs from -real americans- at 6: 30? EVERYONE was an immigrant then. I would like to see the documentation for this photos. That seems highly unlikely.
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Where do you get the information for the photo captions? 1500 immigrants being expelled to mexico for taking jobs from -real americans- at 6: 30? EVERYONE was an immigrant then. I would like to see the documentation for this photos. That seems highly unlikely.
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-jacksemenoff2148
This is why living on a 20 acre block, having your own animals, vegetables, you would never know there was a depression when living of the land, certainly the depression didn't effect some person living of the land in other countries.
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This is why living on a 20 acre block, having your own animals, vegetables, you would never know there was a depression when living of the land, certainly the depression didn't effect some person living of the land in other countries.
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-johnwoods7650
Why are there two modern women mimicking the dress of the poor people past in your intro? Also, why two women? Why not a man and a women as was much more common then? You are laughing at the suffering of that generation. Why?
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Why are there two modern women mimicking the dress of the poor people past in your intro? Also, why two women? Why not a man and a women as was much more common then? You are laughing at the suffering of that generation. Why?
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vintage
Very nice photographs- if they were colored from black and white photos, someone did a great job. Not much insight or discussion about why the Great Depression happened. Some text on the living circumstances would be nice too.
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Very nice photographs- if they were colored from black and white photos, someone did a great job. Not much insight or discussion about why the Great Depression happened. Some text on the living circumstances would be nice too.
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-stankygeorge
I would trust Al Capone before I would trust the Government!
Central Bankers caused the Great Depression, so they could cherry pick the bankrupt business and tech they wanted to buy for pennies on the dollar.
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I would trust Al Capone before I would trust the Government!
Central Bankers caused the Great Depression, so they could cherry pick the bankrupt business and tech they wanted to buy for pennies on the dollar.
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-dmoney5003
It was a simpler time. People who complain we are worst the ever. Were so poor and lifes hard on their iphones and airpods with iwatch eating McDonald's on social media complaining lifes sucks. Hahaha.
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It was a simpler time. People who complain we are worst the ever. Were so poor and lifes hard on their iphones and airpods with iwatch eating McDonald's on social media complaining lifes sucks. Hahaha.
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-user-ei9ik7ri5s
these people don't look too unhappy or hungry. Compared to the perestroika that the USA and Western countries gave us, this depression seems like a very light event.
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these people don't look too unhappy or hungry. Compared to the perestroika that the USA and Western countries gave us, this depression seems like a very light event.
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-jamesburke4358
YET in 1929-31 all these magnificent high rise deco buildings were in a hot minute EVERYWHERE. HIStory makes no sense. So plenty were doing well. Great photos.
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YET in 1929-31 all these magnificent high rise deco buildings were in a hot minute EVERYWHERE. HIStory makes no sense. So plenty were doing well. Great photos.
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-YaH_Gives_Wisdom
One thing missing? Obese people. Sure you may say it was the depression but you can watch videos of city folk in the 50/60/70s and 99% of people are normal.
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One thing missing? Obese people. Sure you may say it was the depression but you can watch videos of city folk in the 50/60/70s and 99% of people are normal.
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-cubic9960
Very very soon America will see this again but much worse than the Great Depression. The people that are running this country/world are working on it right now.
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Very very soon America will see this again but much worse than the Great Depression. The people that are running this country/world are working on it right now.
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-loveminxxx
Same banking families that brought about that crash are about to do it again. Biggest wealth grab of all time - right under our noses. Wake up!
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Same banking families that brought about that crash are about to do it again. Biggest wealth grab of all time - right under our noses. Wake up!
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-jmr1068204
My grandmother was born in 1934 during this time period. Why the freak is she so selfish and self-centered after growing up with so little?
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My grandmother was born in 1934 during this time period. Why the freak is she so selfish and self-centered after growing up with so little?
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-sinephase
look at all that white privilege! It wasn't hard work, luck and sacrifice that got them out of it, nah, it was -whiteness-!
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look at all that white privilege! It wasn't hard work, luck and sacrifice that got them out of it, nah, it was -whiteness-!
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vintage
Banksters caused it. It started 23 years before the market crash - in 1906 with mass invasion of cheap foreign labor.
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Banksters caused it. It started 23 years before the market crash - in 1906 with mass invasion of cheap foreign labor.
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-KB-ke3fi
And now we're getting ready to have another one. but 10 times worse with the Biden administration. So stock up.
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And now we're getting ready to have another one. but 10 times worse with the Biden administration. So stock up.
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vintage
It is more precarious a situation now. They then had lots of energy (oil. And they then had a lot less fentanyl
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It is more precarious a situation now. They then had lots of energy (oil. And they then had a lot less fentanyl
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-davidherz9968
I don't like color put where another color could have been, is this supposed to make the past realler?
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I don't like color put where another color could have been, is this supposed to make the past realler?
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-Forever_Laura
The gals in the thumbnail look like supermodels! Gaunt, gorgeous and starving I guess you could say -
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The gals in the thumbnail look like supermodels! Gaunt, gorgeous and starving I guess you could say -
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vintage
Cool photos - but why the fake AI thumbnail? This doesn't require clickbait. It cheapens what has been done.
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Cool photos - but why the fake AI thumbnail? This doesn't require clickbait. It cheapens what has been done.
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