Monday, September 28, 2015
#35 - The Crash
"During the 1920s, the U.S. Stock Market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August of 1929, a period of wild speculation. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value....low wages, the proliferation of debt, a...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
#34 - The Czechoslovakian
The telephone on Ben desk in his home in Atoka rang. He had to listen for the number of times it rang before picking it off of its hook because it was one of those new-fangled, four-party lines. Ollie peeked around the corner, always curious if it might be for her instead of for Ben and his...
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
#33 - Interrupted Tête–à–tête
Before I begin this post--a continuation of my story--I must admit to making a mistake in the last two posts. My Kansas City Sis read those posts today and immediately let me know in no uncertain terms that Dad's first girlfriend in Detroit was named Sadie, not Sophie. Of course, I must have had a...
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Friday, September 25, 2015
#32 - Rose
Slim walked down Woodward Avenue past Campus Martius and the Detroit Opera House without seeing much of anything. He almost collided with a nicely dressed couple before he realized that his mind was a million miles away from life on the main street of downtown Detroit. He had planned a really nice...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015
#31 - Sadie
The Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903, the year Hursel was born. By 1918, half of all cars in the U.S. were the Ford Model T's. The integrated moving assembly line had changed the time it took to make one completed car from 12.5 hours to 1.5 hours and greatly lowered the price of a new...
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