1930s Depression

The family drove to their grandmother’s house near Fish Creek Canyon, Arizona. Rex and grandma have a colorful vocabulary, that Jeannette had caught onto. While in Arizona, Rex taught the kids how to use a pistol, bow, and a knife. The family later relocated to Las Vegas, where they settled for a month until their hotel burned down. Then they relocated to San Francisco. Finally they relocated to a place called “Battle Mountain” in Nevada. Rex gets a job there and the kids were sent to school at Mary S. Black Elementary. Rosemary gets a job as a teacher and leaves Maureen, who is two years old, with a baby

The television series, “The Walton’s” was about a family living through the Great Depression in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Virginia. Their daily struggles through all of

They arrived in Pasadena toward the end of May, 1920, and moved into tight quarters with her sister and brother-in-law, brother, a nephew and her husband’s cousin (Robinson 79). Though they lacked hot water and a kitchen sink, Pasadena seemed glorious with it’s blue hills on the horizon and it’s wonderful air. Mrs. Robinson accepted a job doing housework while the Welfare Department provided clothing for the children (80).

Nancy’s mother Elizabeth was the tenth out of thirteen children. She married at 16 and had six children of her own. Nancy’s father was 19 when he married Elizabeth, and he was the youngest of four children. They felt obligated to get married because Liz was pregnant and it was not socially acceptable for her to be a single teenage mother. After 16 years of marriage they got a divorce and Nancy’s mom moved back to New Jersey. Years later she moved to Arizona so that she could live near her own mother. Liz remarried in Arizona, but never had any more children.

The boys are living in an apartment at the Henry Horner housing complex with their mother, LaJoe, their younger brother and sisters – the triplets, and a constant stream of people from their father Paul to their sister’s boyfriend’s brother staying on and off with them. Henry Horner is a housing

It is the summer of 1970 in Northern Ohio. The Hadley family is the wealthiest family out of all the families that populates the city of Toledo. They all live in a subdivision called Old Timbers Valley with mother, Lydia, father, George, and Peter and Wendy. The Darling family lives in a sky blue house on top of clouds, the Tremaine family lives in the old, enchanted house, and Old Man Geppetto lives in an Old-Italian village home. Unlike the others, the Hadley’s house is future realistic, full of technology. From lights turning on and off as one walks, stoves making food, sinks washing dishes, a nursey that illuminates the children’s imagination, and so many more laborless enhancements. The children’s nursey is called the Veldt, which can

A small family of four, living in the Tory town of Redding. Life was great Mr. and Mrs. Meeker owned a small tavern that supplies their town with food, rum, and supplies. Their son Timmy helped around the tavern and did chores, because his older brother Sam was off at college. Everyone in Redding was close and knew the Meeker family, they all admired how they had raised Sam and Timmy. Every year after college was over, Sam would come home and visit, except one.

Jeannette explains, “Dad steered the Blue Goose through the dark, driving slowly so as not to alert anyone in the trailer park that we were, as Dad liked to put it, doing the skedaddle” (Walls 17). Jeannette’s parents explain to her that the FBI agents were after her father and they skedaddle at night so they could avoid the henchmen, bloodsuckers, and the gestapo. They justify all the moving to Lori, Brian, and Jeannette by telling them that it would not be permanent. Stated in the memoir, “All this running and moving was temporary, Dad explained. He had a plan. He was going to find gold” (Walls 22). Jeannette’s father worked on an invention he called the Prospector. He said it would help him find gold and then he is going to build the Glass Castle for his family. Lori and Jeannette enjoyed moving around very much. Lori asked Jeannette, “‘Do you like always moving around?’... ‘Of course I do!’” (Walls 29). They find it very adventurous to move all the

When O’Connor was 12, her father took a position with the American Legion Post of Georgia and spent most of his time traveling. Edward was traveling so much that he and the family started to neglect financial obligations, and ended up having to move to Milledgeville. A few years later, when O’Connor was 15, her father died at age 45 from Lupus. O’Connors father was always on the road, so he was hardly at home. With him always gone and then his passing, it was clear that

Many of the affected couldnt pay off their debts forcing them to live in shantytowns. One of the effects of the great depression was families facing eviction. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chillafoux of illinois were one of the many families that suffered during the Great Depression. A photo of children for sale was taken in August in the year 1948. The four children are displayed on their front step as their mother sobs in the background. The picture was displayed by the Valdatto vidette- missere where it included the ages of the children and a brief backstory. Lucille Chillafoux the mother of the children was pregnant with her fifth child when this picture was taken. The family faced critical living conditions, Ray Chillafoux lost his job as a truck driver therefore could not provide anything for his family. In the verge of beign homeless, both Lucille and Ray decided to auction off their children. All children were sold for two dollars to farmers. Ruth Anne being the second oldest recalls being sold to couple with his brother Milton, the second youngest because he wouldnt stop sobbing seeing his sister being taken away. Both Ruth and milton were sold off and used for work, many would consider them as slaves. While living with their new family Ruth and Milton were given different names, beverly and keneth. They were taken to a farm where they

On evening of Sunday June 9, 1912 at the Moore residence the Moore family attended service at the Presbyterian church where their children participated in the Children’s Day Program. The service ended at around 9:30 p.m. and the Moores and Stillinger sisters walked to the Moore’s house at around 10 p.m. The sisters had returned to the Moore residence because they asked their parents the Stillinger 's if they could spend the night. Once they all arrived at the residence they ended their festive evening with some cookies and milk followed by everybody at the residence going to sleep.

During the summer Mrs. Louis’s daughter and her family would come home from Colorado for two or three weeks to visit. While they were in St. Louis, they would all do things together, whether it was sitting around one of their living

The roaring twenties was a time filled with hope and change. President Warren G. Harding promised a “return to normalcy”, which reflected his own conservative values and the voters’ wants for stability and order. Americans felt that they had been through more than enough, and desired prosperity. During the years 1919 and 1920 the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments were passed; the outlaw of alcoholic beverages and the right for women to vote, which ones of the many reasons society was turning their backs on Progressivism. Republicans were beginning to return to their previous dominance. The 1920’s was an economic boom for America, including everything from an increase in jobs, a rise in plentiful goods, new consumer products, and the reduction of taxes. The country was filled with jazz music, dance, and what appeared to be a brighter future. The 1929 crash of stock market was the beginning of a downward spiral leading in to the Great Depression. The stock market crash is often to be confused as the cause of the Great Depression, although that is false. A few of the issues that lead to the Great Depression included; farming (which decreased in demand as farms increased through the states during World War I), banking, and mass unemployment. Capitalism took shape as what was once the individualistic Protestant work ethic was reshaped into industrial work on a grand scale. Each worker contributed to the greater good, and the workers were presided over by a boss

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,