Thursday, October 1, 2015
Oklahoma Family - #37
Baby Ollie Joan was born in a little company-built house that followed a tent city that had sprung up for the new coal mine 40 years earlier. The Coal mines had closed because of worker strikes in the late 1920s. At one time, the city had at least 65 merchants plus carpenters, doctors,...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Undesired Changes
A little break from Oklahoma, mainly because my brain doesn't want to work on that subject. I think Rose and Hursel need a little rest anyway. I've been keeping them kind of busy. A big note was on our door this morning (actually on all the doors of people who live here). It is about a change here...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
#36 - The End Of Detroit
By the end of 1929, industrial production was down by 46% and unemployment was up by 607%. Struggling during the Great Depression, the Ford Motor Company was forced to reduce the scale of their operations, to lower wages and lay off workers. A month after their wedding in April 1930, Hursel got the...
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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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