1932

[asjr]

I have been going through boxes to see if I can throw anything away. I have been a pack rat all my life and really need to get rid of stuff. I found a birthday card someone had sent me that told of things happening the year of my birth. I found out Japan occupied Manchuria, Grand Hotel won the Academy Award for that year.Construction of Rockefeller Center was begun. Life expectancy was 59.7 years, eleven million Americans were out of work, King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor died at age 77, average yearly income was $1,652.00, a new home cost $6,515.00 and you could buy a new car for $610.00. President Herbert Hoover's VP was Charles Curtis. I can tell you now, if I hadn't already felt my age I certainly do now.

On the cover of the card is a picture of a 1932 yellow Pontiac with the hood ornament on it.

[monmouth]

1. I love stuff like that, I was born in '40. Folks may have been poor

but it was memorable. I remember summer nights in the early '40s my dad would take me for a walk (to tire me out I think) and I used to love the sound of the radio shows and the audience laughter coming through the screened windows and doors and people on their front porches saying hello to us and telling me what a pretty girl I was. Who got tired? I loved it. At least we have lived out the life expectancy of that time. Yea!!

[asjr]

4. I know this sounds awful but I sometimes

wish for the "good old days of WW2." I was a happy child then. Movies cost 10 cents. My father gave me an allowance of 10 cents a week and then accompanied me to the local used book store where I could buy Superman Comics without the cover for 5 cents. I can't remember if Wonder Woman existed then or not, but she was my favorite for years. Two for one! Listening to the radio was my favorite thing. Jack Armstrong, the all American Boy, Terry and the Pirates, The Shadow, and I can't forget Tom Mix. No television. Black curtains on the windows. Lights out if there were no curtains. The air raid warden stopping by. And I could almost swear there was a library on each corner. I lived at the library! It is true--life was simpler then.

[monmouth]

5. I loved Brenda Starr, Nancy and Sluggo and Archie. If you loved

those old radio shows you can listen to Jack Armstrong, Terry and the Pirates and The Shadow at
www.live365.com. Go to oldies and then to the year those stories were on. Fabulous. Do you remember the gas rations and the sticker on the family car? Who was poor? Also remember "lard" and bacon grease used to roast meat on "meat days." Ah, those were the days my friend.

[asjr]

6. I remember we had to have coupon books

for everything. Even for shoes. I remember embarrassing my mother in a show store one day. They didn't make "neat" shoes for girls in those days. My school shoes were plain brown oxfords that I called boys shoes. I pitched a fit, removed my uncle Bill's hat from his head, threw it in the floor and stepped all over it. Mother did her best for the war effort by saving grease for victory. She should have rubbed my face in it.

[monmouth]

7. Oh shoot, I wore those same darned shoes..Hahaha. Remember

in the big stores, your feet were put into the "x-ray" machine to determine size? Gawd, what a hoot. I one of those pair of oxfords and after they got wet the soles started to peel off. Hahaha.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Here's a fine, new fliver...

FDR checkin' out Eleanor's new wheels, 1933:

[Greyhound]

3. Cool. 1932 was the height of The Great Depression, right?

Your B-Day card demonstrates just how out of whack the economy is today, maybe this is something that would make the sheeple see how badly they've been taken.

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