From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:32:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Good Old Days of the Gtreat Depression


If we stick around long enough, we can pretend to know something.

But having lived during the Great Depression, it does feel these days like

THIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN.

ALAN


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gamble
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:24 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Good Old Days of the Gtreat Depression


Dear Alan,

Wow, you and I are beginning to sound like those "Old" puppeteers we met long ago!  I used to go to the movies for 9 cents admission!  Since the movie changed every two days, and once on Tuesdays, my "paper route-job" was a daily bike ride at noon to the post office (to pick up daily mail) for the invalid lady living across the street.  For this, I was paid 5 cents.  My expenses were covered!  

But I later got smarter and approached two other ladies on the street offering the same daily service for them...then I was making 15 cents per day, but my expenses were still only 9 cents, since all I ever spent money on at age 9 was movies.....then I discovered girls...!  They increased the expense side ot my equation.  .(but the lsssons I learned were valuable to this day!!!!!)  i.e.>>>  Girls are still expensive...... 

Sincerely, Jim Gamble






----- Original Message ----
From: Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:10:52 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] Good Old Days of the Gtreat Depression

Back in the 1930s:
My Grandma rented a house for $50 a month and took in room & boarders. She had the back bedroom, there was a living room, ONE bathroom, a dining room with a couch I sometimes slept on and a canary cage, dining table and a small desk. The kitchen was large by standards of the day, wih a back porch with laundry tub.
Sheets and cloths were dried with clothespins  on a line in the backyard.

Milkmen made home deliveries, and the Helms Bakery trucks brought bread, rolls, cookies, cakes & pies to the neighborhoods, and another truck sold fruits and veggies.

One rental bedroom had a bunk bed and the other may have too. Grandma made sack lunches---most of the men worked at Braun Engineering, a major employer in the area. The guys read a lot of pulp magazines with bright color covers. Movies were cheap. Kiddie Cartoon matinees ran 15 cents.,  25 cents could get you into many double bills which ran all day into evenings--so people went to movie theaters whenerver they had time, not just as the movie started, and when the movie repeated, they'd leave at the " part where they came in" which is the story behind the phrase

THIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN

Braun Engineering had a noon whistle to signal the lunch hour--you could hear it in much of the towns of Alhambra & South Pasadena. During WW II an air raid siren was placed there too.

In the 1960s I paid $50 a month for a small apartment over a garage in Hollyood---walking distance to post office, movies, shops & department stores and an all night Hollywood Ranch Market that never closed (there were no doors to enter or exit). It was a livelier area then than now, and more interesting before high rise buildings went up. 

Not everything "new" is an improvement.


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