What was life like in the 1930s?

That was during the depression, so the economy was bad. Banks foreclosed on homes, the farm lands were overworked. Lots of displaced people on the road trying to find a job. The rich were rich but the poor were very poor.

Life In The 1930s

America In The 1930s

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What was life like in the 1930s?

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This was the era of the Great Depression. The poor were the worst hit, they became even poorer than they had been. Enormous numbers of people were homeless, and living in old cars, piano boxes, anything they could find to make a home in. "I have seen fear grip the people around Hull House" wrote jane Addams.

Middle class households did not suffer so badly, but they had to cope with things like having the telephone and electricity cut off, and many people lost their homes through being unable to pay the mortgage, and had to go into rented accomodation. people took what jobs they could. One woman said her worst memory was of seeing a neighbour, who had been a proud captain in the US Navy, taking tickets at a neighbourhood movie house.

The marriage rate dropped, and many people of the 30s generatiion never married. "Do you realize how many people of my age are not married?" asked one woman, who was working as a schoolteacher when the local schoolboard ran out of money and started paying the teachers with I.O.Us.

The number of married women going out to work increased, as women tried to keep their families above water, and middle class women wanted to preserve the good things they had got used to, like electricity and the telephone and the ability to keep their children in school.

Listening to the radio was a great way for people to cheer themselves up in the 30s, as was going to the movies, which was relatively cheap. People enjoyed watching cheerful, escapist comedies and musicals that took their minds off their troubles.

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Like most industrial cities pretty grim ! Called the " depression "- high unemployment and squalid housing . It was the Thirties that gave Glasgow its bad reputation with razor gangs and violence and nasty religious bigotry .

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