What Life Was Really Like During The Great Depression Photo Shots
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Sarah
My grandparents were true Okies. Towards the end of the Depression/Oklahoma Dust Bowl, my grandparents packed up my dad (who was less than 2 years old at the time) and his five siblings and moved from Oklahoma to California. I don't think my grandfather worked on the fruit farms long, if at all. He ended up getting a job in L. A, first driving street cars, and then driving buses when the city switched over. However, my grandmother, my aunts and uncles, and my dad (once he was old enough, anyway) did work on the farms many times over the years.
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My grandparents were true Okies. Towards the end of the Depression/Oklahoma Dust Bowl, my grandparents packed up my dad (who was less than 2 years old at the time) and his five siblings and moved from Oklahoma to California. I don't think my grandfather worked on the fruit farms long, if at all. He ended up getting a job in L. A, first driving street cars, and then driving buses when the city switched over. However, my grandmother, my aunts and uncles, and my dad (once he was old enough, anyway) did work on the farms many times over the years.
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Jacquelyn
My great grandma was a badass. An Irish immigrant living in Chicago, her husband disappeared at some point when my grandpa and great uncle were kids during the Great Depression (we recently found out he was in an Indiana prison, and she raised them herself from that point. My grandpa and great uncle both joined the army to get regular meals once they were old enough, though neither saw combat thank goodness. According to my dad, great grandma never lost her sense of humor even after all they went through
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My great grandma was a badass. An Irish immigrant living in Chicago, her husband disappeared at some point when my grandpa and great uncle were kids during the Great Depression (we recently found out he was in an Indiana prison, and she raised them herself from that point. My grandpa and great uncle both joined the army to get regular meals once they were old enough, though neither saw combat thank goodness. According to my dad, great grandma never lost her sense of humor even after all they went through
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steve
The great depression seems like the best of the best of times! We Now live in a world where chemtrails cover the sky's daily and our planet is dying. All of a sudden people are blinded and willing to believe that the Earth can possibly be flat l m g d f a o! Idiots! I could probably go on for hours however the sheeple are actually not worth the time of day because they are a waste of time they have no backbone and they're willing to believe whatever the US media has to say.
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The great depression seems like the best of the best of times! We Now live in a world where chemtrails cover the sky's daily and our planet is dying. All of a sudden people are blinded and willing to believe that the Earth can possibly be flat l m g d f a o! Idiots! I could probably go on for hours however the sheeple are actually not worth the time of day because they are a waste of time they have no backbone and they're willing to believe whatever the US media has to say.
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Patricia
Very touching. Color makes it look more real. Hard times a lot of us have never had to face. Like kids setting on a wagon while our parents work in fields or in some cases they got just enough to barley feed their family. We are spoiled and it's a shame we don't teach our history in schools.
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Very touching. Color makes it look more real. Hard times a lot of us have never had to face. Like kids setting on a wagon while our parents work in fields or in some cases they got just enough to barley feed their family. We are spoiled and it's a shame we don't teach our history in schools.
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kc
The early 1940s pictures do belong. The US technically didn't leave the last residuals of The Great Depression until we entered WWII. The war economy, considered by a # of historians, was a contributing factor to the end of The Great Depression.
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The early 1940s pictures do belong. The US technically didn't leave the last residuals of The Great Depression until we entered WWII. The war economy, considered by a # of historians, was a contributing factor to the end of The Great Depression.
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WestsidePatriot
My great grandma back in '05 said the great depression didn't make any sizable different for her family because they were poor already. She's from Gadsden Alabama and a black woman. So there's some insight.
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My great grandma back in '05 said the great depression didn't make any sizable different for her family because they were poor already. She's from Gadsden Alabama and a black woman. So there's some insight.
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Benny
Wow these are powerful pictures of a very sad time in our country, these people know what the struggle really was and did what they had to, to survive, that is weird history for showing these very eye opening.
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Wow these are powerful pictures of a very sad time in our country, these people know what the struggle really was and did what they had to, to survive, that is weird history for showing these very eye opening.
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NadrianATRS
I feel like looking at some road trip slide show. Ive taught a class on the Depression and Im not getting why these pictures are important
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I feel like looking at some road trip slide show. Ive taught a class on the Depression and Im not getting why these pictures are important
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Mrbunsngear
A lot of people didn't really notice because they were still poor farmers but they didn't live in the dust bowl.
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A lot of people didn't really notice because they were still poor farmers but they didn't live in the dust bowl.
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Hannah
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to the mid 1930s. All the pictures from the 40s have no business being here.
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The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to the mid 1930s. All the pictures from the 40s have no business being here.
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Thrashdragon
The Great Depression didnt last for over a decade whats up with all the pics from the late 30s and 40s?
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The Great Depression didnt last for over a decade whats up with all the pics from the late 30s and 40s?
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Josele
Crates of Peaches Delta County Colorado is where I'm from. I and my mom were both born in Delta Colorado.
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Crates of Peaches Delta County Colorado is where I'm from. I and my mom were both born in Delta Colorado.
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