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In Reply to: Great Depression posted by davidt1 on March 10, 2017 at 09:06:16:
I was born in 1934. I remember as a little kid it was a Saturday afternoon ritual to take the week's accumulation of eggs and cream to town and sell them at a place called the "Farmer's Union". Then buy groceries and supplies for the upcoming week.
As I recall, my parents felt comfortable for the upcoming week if they had $3.00 left over when we headed home.
In the winter, it was a community effort to cut blocks of ice off of a frozen river a half mile from our house, then pack the blocks in straw below grade level in a neighborhood "ice house" for use during the upcoming year. It actually usually lasted until about August. My father had built an "ice engine" on runners out of a Model T Ford engine running a buzz saw blade to saw up the ice on the river.
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