Posted by NY 986 on March 10, 2017 at 09:33:21 from (184.53.50.126):
In Reply to: Great Depression posted by davidt1 on March 10, 2017 at 09:06:16:
I don't know if I have what you are looking for but here goes. My understanding of both sets of grandparents was that neither family carried much of any debt going into the 1930's and that had to help. Further, I don't recall any stories of crop failures which would have affected income. Probably those two categories insured that they survived and even prospered here and there. Dad's father bought equipment during the Depression including a tractor. They were poised to take advantage of the prosperity of the 1940's and 1950's which they did.
Some folks were just caught up in bad circumstances where they did have poor years or happened to have money out in 1929. When they did have a poor crop year most likely meant the garden did not do too well which affected their diets. I know for my families that they certainly had very little money for anything beyond the basics but nobody never did not have three good meals per day. Some meals may have been oatmeal or eggs but the following meal made up for it.
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