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re: I wonder what it was like during the Great Depression
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:11 pm to Ten Bears
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:11 pm to Ten Bears
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My grandmother told me they really didn't know it was a depression because they didn't have much to begin with. They lived in rural Arkansas, and she basically said they established a barter system to get by. My grandmother was really good at canning vegetables and making pies, so she would trade for things like getting clothes hemmed or hand-me-down shoes and stuff.
My dad was born in '25, also in rural Arkansas and he and his family told similar stories. They didn't have any money but that was nothing new. They had a little bit of land and a dozen kids to farm it so they had food to give away. Lots of crazy stories of how they ended up in LA after fleeing the Great Flood of '27. In the family lore some guy tried to kidnap one of my aunts from their camp and my grandfather gutted him with this oversized folding knife that my uncle still had back in the '70s. When all my aunts and uncles were still alive they would always have a big 4th of July get-together and cook a couple of goats. Apparently they ate a lot of goat as kids. I wouldn't order it in a restaurant but it wasn't terrible.
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Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:23 pm to shinerfan
I've probably told this tale before on this board but since it is in the heart of the strike zone of the topic I will tell it again.
During the Great Depression when there was a holiday gathering, a wedding, or some other family celebration my grandparents broke out the Mogen David concord grape wine (otherwise known as cough syrup with slightly better tasting alcohol). It was the most expensive wine they could afford. To this day, roughly 80 years later whenever my family gathers for the holidays, has a wedding, or a death in the family when we get together we have toasts with the same Mogen David concord grape wine.
During the Great Depression when there was a holiday gathering, a wedding, or some other family celebration my grandparents broke out the Mogen David concord grape wine (otherwise known as cough syrup with slightly better tasting alcohol). It was the most expensive wine they could afford. To this day, roughly 80 years later whenever my family gathers for the holidays, has a wedding, or a death in the family when we get together we have toasts with the same Mogen David concord grape wine.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 12:53 am to shinerfan
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big 4th of July get-together and cook a couple of goats.
Looked forward to that more than Christmas. The whole group of families would get together down by the swimming hole on Anacoco Creek. My uncle would supply the goats and that was the best eating and most fun of the whole year. We even made ice cream - one of the couple times a year we'd have that. And watermelons - always had watermelons galore.
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