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unusual facts about depression era



Booky's Crush

First announced in 2008, Booky's Crush is the third in a series of made-for-TV films about Beatrice 'Booky' Thomson, a little girl growing up in Toronto during the depression era.

Edgar Yaeger

Yaeger was best known for his contributions to the Michigan Federal Art project and the Works Progress Administration scheme during the Depression era, to which he contributed a number of murals that were displayed in public buildings.

Schuyler, Virginia

Schuyler was the birthplace and home of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.


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Carol Bolt

Her other plays include examinations of Canadian-specific motifs and political issues, such as Buffalo Jump (examining Canada during the depression era of the 1930s) and Red Emma (about radical anarchist Emma Goldman).

Carson City Civic Auditorium

It was deemed significant as a depression era works project and also "as a rare example of a monumentally-scaled Romanesque Revival-styled building in Nevada".

Clarence Lieder

Clarence Lieder (August 15, 1906-January 1969) was a mechanic and armorer for Chicago's underworld and Depression-era criminals, as well as the primary competitor to Joe Bergl.

Feature Funnies

Publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, deducing that Depression-era audiences wanted established quality and familiar comic strips for their hard-earned dimes, formed the suitably titled Comic Favorites, Inc.

Honey in the Lion's Head

One is Jim Garland’s Depression-era classic, “I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister”, and the other is a Brown original.

Jack Carl Greenburg

On January 29, 1940, Governor Culbert Olson called the Legislature into Special Session to deal with a myriad of issues, including the unemployment problem in Depression-era California.

Jack Tworkov

During the Depression Era, Tworkov met Willem de Kooning, among others, and together with a group of abstract expressionists including Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, founded the New York School.

Jimmy Cox

Jimmy Cox (July 28, 1882 – March 1925) was an American songwriter famous for his Depression-era hit "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out".

John Michael Manos

Like many Depression-era Cleveland kids, he worked odd jobs at the West Side Market.

Leon Wagner

After his playing career ended, Wagner appeared in small acting roles, prominently in John Cassavetes' 1974 film A Woman under the Influence and as a member of a Depression-era barnstorming team in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976).

Montgomery County, Illinois

Otto Funk (1868–1934) Violinist who achieved fame (and a Guinness Book of Records entry) by walking from New York to San Francisco in the depression-era, "playing the fiddle every step of the way." When he died in 1934 at the age of 65, he was accorded the biggest funeral in the history of Montgomery County.

Six o'clock swill

Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, an autobiography of a depression era barmaid, describes the six o'clock swill, at a time (1952) when it was presumed that the reader would be familiar with the concept.

ST Wattle

The Wattle was recognised by the National Trust as being significant as an example of depression era Australian shipbuilding and of the transition to welded construction from riveted construction.

The Tender Land

Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the Depression-era photographs of Walker Evans and reading James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Victorian Railways J class

During the early 1950s, Victorian Railways embarked on a massive upgrading of its ageing locomotive fleet as part of 'Operation Phoenix', an £80 million program to rebuild a network badly run down by years of Depression-era underinvestment and wartime overutilisation.