Interesting colour pictures of 1930's America.
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Will these days return?
OT Pix.
Mar 25, 2013
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I hope not. This was during the Great Depression, and I was there.
Only if the socialists keep driving the country backwards.
Worse things could happen...isn't much of the UK like this? Hope so for your sake...it will bring you back to reality.
1939 - 1941 according to the photos.
Heh. Many americans have returned to the quality-of-life as depicted in those photos.
Certainly since 9/11.
I can remember similar when I was a toddler. Post WW2.
And Dust Bowl days. My mom grew up on a farm in south central Nebraska. She remembers red dust on clothes hanging on the clothes lines. That dust must've come from Oklahoma. Some pics here:
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I think that was when the first farm programs started. Unemployment was maybe 25% in the cities. The U.S. government didn't want a bunch of unemployed farm families adding to the problem.
Not without Kodachrome.
and never with a communist in the whitehouse.
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