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HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION???
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 317540
3/10/2008 11:59 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They were better people then...most were skilled in many practical fields unlike the overspecialized cubicle rats of today...even those in the cities knew how to garden and many gardens sprang up in vacant lots...compare them to the metrosexuals today and thats the reason things will get out of hand...the first day the welfare checks bounce in the hood will show what kind of people a nanny state produces...good luck to all... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 389449
3/11/2008 12:06 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
It was pretty bad when you only got 50 or 75 cents per day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 375964
hamburger was a nickle a lb, and bread about the same. they bought flour, sugar and coffee. didn't have cable or a cable bill. didn't waste their money at starbucks. |
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voodoochile
User ID: 381732
3/11/2008 12:07 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
i know a real old man who tole me bout it, he went hungry alot and ate lot of bolweevils with the corn and stuff, sound horrific. i Pray this does not happen this time!
the "emperors" have no clothes! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 353013
3/11/2008 12:08 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They were better people then...most were skilled in many practical fields unlike the overspecialized cubicle rats of today...even those in the cities knew how to garden and many gardens sprang up in vacant lots...compare them to the metrosexuals today and thats the reason things will get out of hand...the first day the welfare checks bounce in the hood will show what kind of people a nanny state produces...good luck to all... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 317540
Yeah, no kidding, huh.
Two years ago my sister and I decided to go to Walmart for their huge early morning sale the day after Thanksgiving. We got up at 4 am to drive over and buy a tv or something. When we got there, there was not a parking spot in the entire huge parking lot...she dropped me off so I could get a place in the line while she looked for parking. My gawd, the line wrapped all the way around the building, and this was at 4:30 in the morning. Let me tell you, I didn't know there were that many thuggish looking folks in my town! It was a real eye-opener, cuz I figure that was actually only a small percentage of them. I thought about what it would be like if all of them were starving and I had some food. It's not going to be pretty. |
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daughter
User ID: 389919
3/11/2008 12:24 AM
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I don't think people are any worst now than in the depression
times. It took a lot of people by surprise in those days as it well the shock it gave them. They came to grips with what happened and buckled down to do what they had to they survived.
Of course it well be hard on people today. I think after the shock wears off, survival kicks in and they well do just like
the others did. I well be hard very hard but you get use to
it. Time, a lot time to think. You get into the of the way thing have changed, the new routine and go on. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 389953
3/11/2008 1:54 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Feed yourself, because nobody else will.
google.com
micro farming
permaculture
tiny farming
container farming
urban agriculture |
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Wraithwynd
User ID: 360108
3/11/2008 2:00 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Back then most of America was still rural. Still a lot of people who grew their own food.
Those in cities usually ended up with the women folk moving back in with the parents (who actually did own their own homes not having banks own them and endless years of payments) or the family would all rent a very small place.
The Menfolk became hobos - sort of like the homeless of today - except these where honest men who were looking to earn an honest dime - they would go from town to town looking for work, either by train or by foot.
Women would do piece work, aka take in laundry, become house cleaners and of course took care of the youngun's and what not.
Middle class was much smaller - you had working poor and rich. The rich were the hardest hit. The poor barely noticed and those who were in the middle class quickly became working poor. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 375109
3/11/2008 2:27 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
My family was already poor when the depression hit. They didn't have electricity or running water. They grew their own food. Water was carried from the creek or well. They cooked on wood cook stoves. They raised their own pigs and chickens, and had a mule for transportation. So they were already used to living that way and it didn't effect them as much as it did those living in the city.
Like the song "Song of the South" by Alabama, "Somebody told us Wall Street fell, but we were so poor that we couldn't tell." |
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Dirtfarmer 
Forum Farmer and Gas Pumper
User ID: 388010
3/11/2008 2:45 AM
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Have you ever had a lard sandwich? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 376301
Interesting, my Dad talked about lard and bacon grease sandwiches. My Grandfather told me that he was unable to generate enough money living in the city to feed and clothe and house his family. He moved to a farm so they had their own home raised meat and milk from their livestock along with a huge garden for vegetables. Even when I was a child we still spent half our summer putting up vegetables and other produce we raised for the winter. We always had a freezer filled with beef and pork. Now I live on the farm and have a garden for fresh vegetables, but do no canning or freezeing of anything for the winter. I am a crop farmer and halve no livestock either. Unfortunately I live like city folk and go to the store for most of my supplies. Looks like I better get some of my grandparents and parents old recipe books out and learn how to can and freeze supplies for the winter. Maybe I should buy some livestock too, eh!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 389978
3/11/2008 3:32 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
hordes of hobos roamed the country looking for work and food. This time there will be Revolution |
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BUNDY
User ID: 388527
3/11/2008 4:00 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
hordes of hobos roamed the country looking for work and food. This time there will be Revolution Quoting: Anonymous Coward 389978
this time there will be chaos.
PEOPLE in this country during the depression werent like today.
THEY DIDNT BELEIVE IN CHARITY
OR STEALING
And they worked for a living, were independent and had brains.
A PERSON WITH AN EIGHT GRADE EDUCATION WAS BETTER EDUCATED THAN MOST COLLEGE STUDENTS TODAY.
Today most think the world owes them a living, and the feds are more than willing to support this nonsense with handouts.
Most people would starve if the burger shacks closed.
When the govt goes broke all of the starving in the projects
and slums arent gonna stay there, they will go looking for nonexistent food.
NIMRODS ON THIS SITE TALK ABOUT living in the country and being "self sufficent".
THEY NEVER STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT FIGHTING OFF HOARDS OF STARVING CITY FOLK, by the thousands.
And none of them have ever starved.
They have no clue as to the things they will have to do to surrive, or what starving people will do to surrive.
People I have met who surrived the depression tend to be as tough as a bag of nails, thats how they "surrived"
AND thats why we WON'T  |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 389978
3/11/2008 4:12 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Revolution was closer during the Great Depression than people think. Hordes of WWI veterans marched on Washington asking for their bonus money. They were put down by a massed bayonet attack ordered by MacArthur. Scores of workers were killed all across America in strike actions. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 387440
3/11/2008 4:29 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
I don't think people are any worst now than in the depression
times. It took a lot of people by surprise in those days as it well the shock it gave them. They came to grips with what happened and buckled down to do what they had to they survived.
Of course it well be hard on people today. I think after the shock wears off, survival kicks in and they well do just like
the others did. I well be hard very hard but you get use to
it. Time, a lot time to think. You get into the of the way thing have changed, the new routine and go on. Quoting: daughter
I have to respectfully disagree. The vast majority of people nowadays just don't have the skills that the depression era folks had.
These days you'd be hard pressed to find someone who knows how to pluck a chicken or store food without refrigeration, etc.
How can they survive if they don't even know how to anymore?
Sheesh, I shocked the hell out of my young sister-in-law, when she saw me add a little flour and milk to bacon grease and end up with milk gravy. Her jaw dropped, and she said "so that's where milk gravy comes from!" Good heavens, how is this generation supposed to survive when they are so ignorant? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 389998
3/11/2008 4:41 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT ? WHERE DID THEY LIVE WHAT DID THEY EAT???HOW THEY MADE IT? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162
They did not bitch on the internet everyday calling for doom when there is none. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 389998
3/11/2008 4:42 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
they worked hard and it sucked. Talk to your grandparents for five minutes. (or great grandparents) They will have stories Quoting: Anonymous Coward 389810
Yep, they were not whiners like you all... |
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bundy
User ID: 388527
3/11/2008 5:41 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
I don't think people are any worst now than in the depression
times. It took a lot of people by surprise in those days as it well the shock it gave them. They came to grips with what happened and buckled down to do what they had to they survived.
Of course it well be hard on people today. I think after the shock wears off, survival kicks in and they well do just like
the others did. I well be hard very hard but you get use to
it. Time, a lot time to think. You get into the of the way thing have changed, the new routine and go on.
I have to respectfully disagree. The vast majority of people nowadays just don't have the skills that the depression era folks had.
These days you'd be hard pressed to find someone who knows how to pluck a chicken or store food without refrigeration, etc.
How can they survive if they don't even know how to anymore?
Sheesh, I shocked the hell out of my young sister-in-law, when she saw me add a little flour and milk to bacon grease and end up with milk gravy. Her jaw dropped, and she said "so that's where milk gravy comes from!" Good heavens, how is this generation supposed to survive when they are so ignorant? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 387440
true enough, for most today "cooking" is ordering something or going through the drive in.
Forget about growing food, they can't even cook it!  |
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Riyu
User ID: 390048
3/11/2008 7:17 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
1.-To do backyard gardening,or,patio gardening,Room Hydro Culture
2.-How to driveslow starting,No braking,slow driving,use bicycle ,auto bike,walking, This maybe,less 30% of Fuel!
Of course,I do it
3.-Buy Hybrid car Toyota,Honda etc30km/h
4 No smoking due to high price,Health!
5 To care without doctor,Learn Herb,Edgar Cayce etc!
6 Plant Herb
7 Buy cold press castor oil ,Hand of Jesus
8 Sunday DIY
9 Buy sawing machine or Hand sawing,recycle cloths
10 Don't go Big Market,You buy many Inc,COpany product goods |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 5240
3/11/2008 7:47 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
My grandparents survived the great depression they bought a 3 family building with a deli butcher on the first floor.
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Slartibartfast
User ID: 362871
3/11/2008 7:49 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Having come a country with real issues, violence and poverty, I have to say that US folks are so soft and unused to the idea of 'having to fend for themselves' - that I'd guess any real glitch in the 'normal reality' will cause widespread panic and chaos.
When there's abruptly no food in the stores, and/or no money (because the banks have closed down the credit cards/debit cards) and no fuel to go riding around for any reason..
this society will grind to a halt..
You really think the immensely overfed people you see everywhere (66% of the population) - are going to be able to get a backpack and go walking for the required 10 or 50 miles, in search of food?
Folks will sit and starve, and eventually, I'd imagine, waddle down to where ever the patrolling loudspeakers ontop of the police cars, tell them to go to..
US people are soft, and unused to hard living, or violence, or self sufficiency.
The folks during the great Depression, were of stronger stuff than the current population. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 390077
3/11/2008 8:44 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 390100
3/11/2008 9:34 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
A PERSON WITH AN EIGHT GRADE EDUCATION WAS BETTER EDUCATED THAN MOST COLLEGE STUDENTS TODAY. Quoting: BUNDY 388527
Holy cow, I was just about to post this exact same thing. Not only were people back then better educated at a younger age, but they also had solid skills in life. That is to say, they knew how to hunt, fish, knit, sew, cook, kill and butcher animals, etc. They were self-sufficient and a people to be admired.
It all makes me think that it was the powers that be brought in the Great Depression in order to get these smart, self-sufficient people under their thumb. I hate to think what they have in store for us. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 321697
3/11/2008 9:50 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
My grandmother grew up on a farm during the depression. They grew their food and bums would stop by and work for food. They were never allowed in the house, but they slept in the barn. They were a fortunate family because they had apples, pears, corn, wheat, soy beans, and cattle.
My grandfather on the other hand, they'd usually eat wild berries. His father was a smuggler during prohibition in the USA. His father operated the St. Clair River smuggling operation to Marine City, Michigan from Courtright, Ontario. Their family earned cash that way. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 279896
3/11/2008 10:08 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
People were genuinely caring human beings then. They got by because they didn't need big screen TVs and SUVs. They enjoyed each other's company and were willing to share what little they had. It's called COMMUNITY.
Who was it who sang "Country folks can survive?" |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 388281
3/11/2008 10:14 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
go ask a homless person how they do it, that should give you a good clue, unless you own land and then you better know how to farm and shoot a gun. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 389809
I own land and have gun can hunt, We built our house ourselves and paid for it as we built it. We learned from our parents. My father processed all our beef pork and chicken himself and cured it himself . I learned food preservation. And the most important thing we are not afraid to get dirty, blisters or work till we drop. Sadly today a large number of people rely on stores to get what they need. If they cant buy it they dont have a clue. |
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JCD
User ID: 188983
3/11/2008 10:24 AM
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I have to respectfully disagree. The vast majority of people nowadays just don't have the skills that the depression era folks had.
These days you'd be hard pressed to find someone who knows how to pluck a chicken or store food without refrigeration, etc.
How can they survive if they don't even know how to anymore?
Sheesh, I shocked the hell out of my young sister-in-law, when she saw me add a little flour and milk to bacon grease and end up with milk gravy. Her jaw dropped, and she said "so that's where milk gravy comes from!" Good heavens, how is this generation supposed to survive when they are so ignorant? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 387440
Things change when you least expect it. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 356326
3/11/2008 10:27 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT ? WHERE DID THEY LIVE WHAT DID THEY EAT???HOW THEY MADE IT? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162
Talk to one for Christ's sakes, |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 356326
3/11/2008 10:27 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT ? WHERE DID THEY LIVE WHAT DID THEY EAT???HOW THEY MADE IT? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162
Talk to one for Christ's sakes, |
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Isaac Brock died for us
User ID: 337597
3/11/2008 10:30 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Canada was one of the worst hit countries during the depression. People couldn't afford gas for their Model-T's so they hitched them to horses and called them "Bennett Buggies" (after Prime Minister R.B.Bennett.)
Hobos marched on Ottawa and rode the rails. Some of our nicest riverside parks today were once "Hobo Jungles". The social services in the "jungles" were organized by the anarchist IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World or "wobblies".
Nevertheless, for some in Northern Canada, the Depression was a boom time. With deflation, gold mining became very profitable. Every high grade vein that broke out on surface merited a shaft being sunk and a little bush camp and mill going up alongside it.
Fortunes were made on the Vancouver stock exchange.
The city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories was founded in the Depression. The miners and their families lived in tents in -40 winters. The children crowded into a 16'x16' log cabin where Miss Mildred Hall taught all ages their 3 'R's.
It was the era of the float plane. Vast area that had previously been inaccessible were now a mere day's travel in Canadian made DeHavilland aircraft.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 353013
3/11/2008 10:35 AM | |
Isaac Brock died for us
User ID: 337597
3/11/2008 10:38 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
The really bad times in the Northwest Territories were the 20's - the flu years.
Whole communities were wiped out by the flu.
There was an old man in Yellowknife who used to tell me about his haunting memories. They stacked the bodies in cold storage in the winter, and then he spent his whole summer digging graves. He was convinced that we would see those days again.
In the Yukon, the flu hit again during WWII. They say it was brought by American soldiers building the Alaskan Highway. That never made sense to me, because the Yukon had experience a major gold rush 50 years earlier, so you would think everybody's immune systems were primed.
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