Sunday, March 09, 2008
Depression 1929 - A Comment
I am posting this because the originator does not have direct access to comment on the previous blog posting.......
"Just read your 'Depression' blog. Yes, it was a hard time for all. We arrived by boat in Sept. 1930 on a very cloudy and foggy day. The statue scared the life out of us. Like a Frankenstein movie. You saw nothing and then suddenly this
odd shape appears out of no where and no one could make sense of it. In the daytime she looked like a saint. We had a place to live. Was in a house in
Woodlawn cemetary that even the banks didn't want. A brick 4 family house
all to ourselves, rent free. Just the gas, water and electric was on. My father
had a job, $18.00 a week and we never went hungry to without the necessities,
he even saved money to buy a $50.oo car. He spoke not one word of English
but getting a license those days was easy. And we even had a dog. I doubt that
we ever knew we were poor. Didn't feel any different then we do today. Always had food cooked from scratch, no fancy stuff then. Even make chocolate pudding the hard way...no powder to add milk to and that is it. We had to cook
it, watching the pot that it didn't boil over was my job. I did a good job I tell
you. That training (living thru that Depression made a dent in me). To this
day things recycled, re-used, thought over to make sure we need it, never
waste anything and so on. I often wonder what our grands (grandparents)
would do if all the fast food joints would close, the cell phones are taken away and they can't run to Wal-Mart for stuff one just has to have because it is on
sale....hope I love long enough.....would enjoy it immensely."
And all the younger people, of today, think they have things so bad and
as a result just complain.......How many are even willing to leave their
foreclosed house, which they could not afford in the first place, to live
in a cemetary?.....Even for free?........Boy has time changed so many
things, but if you read carefully not everything.......Pumps.......
"Just read your 'Depression' blog. Yes, it was a hard time for all. We arrived by boat in Sept. 1930 on a very cloudy and foggy day. The statue scared the life out of us. Like a Frankenstein movie. You saw nothing and then suddenly this
odd shape appears out of no where and no one could make sense of it. In the daytime she looked like a saint. We had a place to live. Was in a house in
Woodlawn cemetary that even the banks didn't want. A brick 4 family house
all to ourselves, rent free. Just the gas, water and electric was on. My father
had a job, $18.00 a week and we never went hungry to without the necessities,
he even saved money to buy a $50.oo car. He spoke not one word of English
but getting a license those days was easy. And we even had a dog. I doubt that
we ever knew we were poor. Didn't feel any different then we do today. Always had food cooked from scratch, no fancy stuff then. Even make chocolate pudding the hard way...no powder to add milk to and that is it. We had to cook
it, watching the pot that it didn't boil over was my job. I did a good job I tell
you. That training (living thru that Depression made a dent in me). To this
day things recycled, re-used, thought over to make sure we need it, never
waste anything and so on. I often wonder what our grands (grandparents)
would do if all the fast food joints would close, the cell phones are taken away and they can't run to Wal-Mart for stuff one just has to have because it is on
sale....hope I love long enough.....would enjoy it immensely."
And all the younger people, of today, think they have things so bad and
as a result just complain.......How many are even willing to leave their
foreclosed house, which they could not afford in the first place, to live
in a cemetary?.....Even for free?........Boy has time changed so many
things, but if you read carefully not everything.......Pumps.......
# posted by Pumps @ 2:32 PM 
