What LIFE Was Like in 1930s America

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  @BacktoYesterday-1 · 11 months ago · pinned

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• WH

  @Whoremembersusa · 11 months ago

  Our grandparents had to go through some incredibly hard times.

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• HU

  @hungtraninh1726 · 11 months ago

  If I had to live through the 1930s, I think the sheer mental and emotional toll of the uncertainty and loss would be the hardest. This video makes me incredibly grateful for the comforts and stability we have today.

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• DO

  @dottyanaya · 11 months ago (edited)

  My parents grew up in the Depression. My dad used to eat navy beans and sliced onion on homemade bread. I never understood why. He said when he was young that’s what they had to eat but now he has acquired a taste for those sandwiches. When he was a kid instead of spreading mayonnaise on the bread he used bacon grease. My grandpa Axel died when my dad was 11 years old in 1933. They owned their own house and had a car so they weren’t too bad off but Grandma sold the car and my dad quit school after 8th grade so he could work and help his mom. He picked fruits and vegetables in the summer and in the winter would chop wood and do other odd jobs to help out. Grandmas cooked meals for boarders and took in wash. When he was 17, Daddy worked in the CCC camps then he became a soldier. He married my mom in 1944 and that’s when our family began. Daddy was always such a hard worker and a good provider. My mom’s dad hada construction company and he worked on grading hwy 26 in Oregon. For awhile there, while Grandpa was working on the road my mom told me they lived in tent which as a small child she thought it was fun but it must’ve been a nightmare for her mother. For the most part though, my mom’s family lived in a house and they always had plenty to eat because they had fruit trees, a vegetable garden and chickens. Grandpa always bought more chicken feed because he was a bootlegger and he needed the extra corn for making whiskey. He never got caught, in fact some of his customers were policeman. I am so interested in the 1930’s. Both of my folks have passed on so I depend on these videos to learn more about it. Thank you so much.

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• AN

  @anesiojrmanongas4502 · 10 months ago

  This 1930&apos;s life is happening today (history repeat itself).

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• AN

  @AnnacolleenEtters · 11 months ago

  I know one set of grandparents had a small farms, and the others had enough room for a large garden. Both grandmothers knew how to can, but church kitchens were crucial to the neighborhoods. This is where the sales we had even in the 1980s twice a year came from. Women grew food, and made quilts, crocheted blankets, and they made sure to be creative. When I was married in 1977, my grandmother gave me a small black box full of recipes. I gave it to my youngest daughter, so she would have something from her great grandma, who passed just after she was born. I went to my other grandmothers farm with my family, each Summer. We went to church each Sunday, it was church, Sunday school, and a 2nd church service at her Baptist. After the 2nd service, we had a potluck. On the Sundays we didn&apos;t do this, we made the rounds to cousins of my mothers, and went swimming in the bay, or Pensacola, and Mobile. It was great fun. On the way back to DC, where my father always stayed to paint the house, we stopped at his parents, and this gave me a glimpse of the relationship my mother had with her best friend, which was my fathers little sister. It is probably why my big brothers wife became my best friend after he married. She was the reason my children had a wonderful aunt, after my sister died. I miss her more than anyone, even my brother. Family was so important, even in the 50s and 60s.

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• HE

  @heidimisfeldt5685 · 11 months ago

  I am pretty sure many more people back then knew how to grow a few vegetables, and knew some very basic foraging, such as dandilion greens and plenty more. The average person back then had more basic survival skills, as compared to us today.

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• JE

  @jeffdalton6061 · 11 months ago

  How incredibly proud I am of my ancestors.

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• DE

  @deboraholsen2504 · 9 months ago

  When I was 7 years old in 1973, I was looking at my grandma’s photo album, and as I came across pictures of young men working near Sequoia National Park in the forested Sierra Nevada mountain range, she told me that her twin brothers were in the picture, my great uncles, and that they had been hired to work there in a program that FDR had instituted, the CCC. Since they were born in 1914, they were right in that age range of 18-25 that was required to participate.

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• CA

  @CarolSamuels-k7l · 11 months ago

  Grandpa was a carpenter, &nbsp;so he could usually get work. &nbsp;My aunt said that her sister-in-law pursued my uncle because she thought the family was rich. &nbsp;When my mother was born in 1932, my grandpa said he had to borrow $800 in order for her to be born. &nbsp;My aunt was 10 years older than my mom. &nbsp;She remember having received pickles to spend, but once the depression hit, she wasn&apos;t even allowed pennies.

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• WK

  @wk7060 · 11 months ago

  I remember Mom and Dad telling me about how tough it was during the Great Depression. They both lived on farms in Central Texas.

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• HE

  @heidimisfeldt5685 · 11 months ago (edited)

  🥨 🍲 🥣 🍛 🍜 🍝 Soup most definitely is a great way to stretch whatever little is available, and easily made from scratch. A bowl of soup, and a piece of bread. Bet many were still hungry, after eating their portion. But something is something to be grateful for.

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