170,000 depression era photo's 1935-45

[delbjork1937]

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/

click on a spot for that region's photos

Waiting for streetcar, Chicago, Illinois-1940

Poster, Chicago, Illinois

Movie theatre, Chicago, Illinois-1940

Adolescent boys dressed up for the Easter parade, Chicago, Illinois-1941

 

[delbjork1937]

Children playing "ring around a rosie" in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois-April 1941

 

[ShiftyDevil]

Those people don't look depressed at all!

 

[Scoot26]

Those people don't look depressed at all!

Looking through the pics displayed I was thinking of posting the same thing lol.

 

[DC]

Sometimes, when you don't have money, you focus on the good things in life and are grateful for just being alive and healthy. Or, it's the first time those poor bastards ever saw a camera.

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

inB4 the two minutes of desperado mad respect, and how one of his buddies dealt with the depression

 

[Mitchapalooza]

Looked through a few more pictures and all the kids seem happy. Shows how they can find fun and be happy even in bad circumstances.

 

[Unannounced Fart]

Cool site. I clicked on pics from Hawaii.

Pearl Harbor:

A truckload of Japanese Americans going to enlist for military service after the bombings:

 

[delbjork1937]

Looked through a few more pictures and all the kids seem happy. Shows how they can find fun and be happy even in bad circumstances.

because money wasnt the end all be all yet. People still bartered and there was less red tape. But government started to take over more than ever.

people had less things to do and had to rely on each other

 

[botfly10]

Just a bit of glorification going on in here. The great depression was in no way a happy go lucky time because people were freed from the attachments of money.

 

[ShiftyDevil]

Cool site. I clicked on pics from Hawaii.

Pearl Harbor:

A truckload of Japanese Americans going to enlist for military service after the bombings:

And how many of their families were interred? Even good presidents do some fantastically fucked up shit.

 

[JimJohnson]

Wish we could go back in time to experience it.

 

[Monster]

Just a bit of glorification going on in here. The great depression was in no way a happy go lucky time because people were freed from the attachments of money.

Good point. I know my grandmother (RIP) didn't have to many happy stories.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Cool thread man. I enjoy.

 

[Unannounced Fart]

And how many of their families were interred? Even good presidents do some fantastically fucked up shit.

That was indeed some fucked up shit.

Japanese American store owners in Los Angeles leaving signs before being interred:

From Los Angeles, off to the internment camps:

 

[botfly10]

Good point. I know my grandmother (RIP) didn't have to many happy stories.

My great grandpa was a doctor and my grandpa (who was a kid then) told stories about how he didn't have a practice or anything and wound up working out of his house, sometimes for food but mostly for free. The stories were pretty horrifying.

 

[Monster]

My great grandpa was a doctor and my grandpa (who was a kid then) told stories about how he didn't have a practice or anything and wound up working out of his house, sometimes for food but mostly for free. The stories were pretty horrifying.

My grandmother was young too. She said people riding the trains , Hobos she called them would come by their small farm and ask to work for food. She said they were nice and one time a guy told her there was a secret mark on their fence that meant it was an honest house. You could work for a meal. She told me she searched everywhere for that mark but never found it. Her mother would never turn anyone away unless they simply had nothing extra left, but they only got that low close to harvest. She was very generous her entire life. Her childhood might have been the reason. That was in Iowa by the way.

 

[BringBackDitka54]

My great grandmother lived to be 98. I remember her telling me how during prohibition, her and her husband would make their own moonshine in their basement out of a bathtub. And yes, she was as badass as she sounds...

I couldn't imagine being born around 1900. Say you were born in 1900, and lived to be 85... You've experienced the wright brothers, model T, world war one, the great depression, world war two, civil rights, Cuban Missile Crisis (Cold War), Vietnam, the moon landing... I'm sure I'm missing some major stuff, but good God, they were truly the greatest generation.

 

[wklink]

That was indeed some fucked up shit.

Japanese American store owners in Los Angeles leaving signs before being interred:

From Los Angeles, off to the internment camps:

Many of these people lost everything too. There were no reparations for the stuff lost. There should have been.

Of all the things we as a nation have done over the centuries this ranks right up there with the most despicable.

 

[Tater]

Many of these people lost everything too. There were no reparations for the stuff lost. There should have been.

Of all the things we as a nation have done over the centuries this ranks right up there with the most despicable.

Yep, pretty brutal.