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re: New Orleans in the past
Posted on 2/22/20 at 12:24 pm to X123F45
Posted on 2/22/20 at 12:24 pm to X123F45
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This thread reminds me of how poor my family was only three generations ago.
When those balls were going on, my great grandfathers were struggling to feed 8,11,6,9 kids respectively. Wild to think about. They had no running water.
Not even ten years later, when the country was starving... They started doing alright.
The standard of living was so much different back then and also varied by location. For example, the house my dad and his three siblings were raised in was so freaking tiny, living room, 2 bedrooms and kitchen, and not sure if it had running water, yet my grandfather owned a dairy farm, plenty of land and about 40 head of cattle.
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Posted on 2/22/20 at 2:39 pm to Havoc
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The standard of living was so much different back then and also varied by location. For example, the house my dad and his three siblings were raised in was so freaking tiny, living room, 2 bedrooms and kitchen, and not sure if it had running water, yet my grandfather owned a dairy farm, plenty of land and about 40 head of cattle.
In the late '20s my grandpa bought his first house in Morgan City for $1200. It's still there, in the old part of Morgan City, two streets over from the river.
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