Its 1929, a couple of days before the Market Crash
Come Annabell, I need you to help me with dinner before your father gets home!
I guess I should get going everyone is going to eat soon, I'll introduce you there
Dad comes home from work fairly cheerful, but today was different
As he walked in I immediately knew something was wrong, I found out why the next day.
Welcome home father!
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 stopped everyone in their tracks. My family suffered because all of our money went down the drain.
Wow her outfit is way nicer than mine, but I wonder how her family is handling it?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE CANNOT GET OUR MONEY OUT!!!
Not too long after the Market Crash father lost his job
Mother then had to find a job so we could sustain ourselves. Father was afraid we might have to move to a "Hooverville"
Another day of work is another day for food on the table.
My family could not afford to keep our house anymore. We were already scrounging for money, so we had to move to a Hooverville.
I wish the government would just do something better about it
A couple of years later Franklin D. Roosevelt got elected president. He passed what he called "The New Deal" in hopes that it would ease the depression.
Father, I'm really hungry!
I know Annabell, but we've already taken our share from the soup kichten
By the end of it all though the stock market wasn't stopped by the Presidents actions.
I'm going to lose my father to the war! I cannot be the only one going through this.
Many men, including my father, gave up their lives to protect this country.
A stately home in the late 1920's
I cannot wait for the party tonight mother. It will be spectacular.
House of the Flynn's, a well off family who earns most, if not all of their funds from stock.
Me either Beatrice. Hopefully your father gets home from work early enough. He always seems to be at the bank.
After the grand party was over, I overheard father talking to mother about something
What's going on?
I got word from the bank that the stock market is not doing very well.
Date: October 28th, 1929
The next day, I went to the bank with my father. He said it was urgent business.
I will have my money! For heavens sake I am a banker and I know my rights.
I hope the girl behind us has better luck.
Date: October 29th, 1929
I'm sorry sir, I am going to have to ask you to leave. I cannot give you your money right now
Little did we know that our lives would take a turn for the worst. Father was laid off from his banking job. Mother and I had to go work as seamstresses.
Mama's wages were not enough to sustains us though. We had to give up our stately home and move closer to the city.
Please anyone just a little spare change will help.
On my way back home from the factory I noticed a girl begging on the streets.
I immediately recognized her from the bank not too long ago. I knew that I was not going through this alone.
Here you go!
A few years later we heard Franklin D. Roosevelts decree called "The New Deal", which was supposed to help relieve all of us.
My parents were skeptical of the plan, but all the same it gave us hope.
My parents were right to be skeptical. The thing that actually stopped the Great Depression was the start of World War 2. Not the programs and projects of the Government
In the end, social class did not matter because every man that was able would fight in this war.
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