Then+and+Now

(The Remainder of Room 205)

How Have Times Changed Since the Depression?
== **Rebecca Peraza** During The Great Depression Many artists and groups sang about what they saw and how the felt. There was a lot of Jazz, Swing, and The Blues. Here are some of the more popular ones: 1.Brother, Can You Spare A Dime- Leo Reisman & His Orchestra Poor Man’s Heaven 2. Bank Failures – Bob Ferguson & Scalawaggers Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left 3. No Depression in Heaven – The Carter Family 4. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live- Blind Alfred Reed Hard Times In The Country 5. Poor Man – Frank Proffitt Memorial Album 6. NRA Blues- Bill Cox 7. Death Of The Blue Eagle – George Davis Mountain Music Of Kentucky 8. WPA Song – unknown 9. Join The CIO- Aunt Molly Jackson 10. Join The Union Tonight- John Handcox Songs for Political Action 11. 35 Depression – Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah Poor Man’s Heaven 12. ‘31 Depression Blues – The New Lost City Ramblers Volume II 1963-1973 13. Jolly Banker – Woody Guthrie Library Of Congress Recordings 14. Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train – Uncle Dave Macon Classic Sides 1929-1938 Disc D 15. President Roosevelt Is Everybody’s Friend – Rev. JM Gates Poor Man’s Heaven 16. Roosevelt After Inauguration (excerpt)-From The Yage Letters – William S. Burroughs 17. Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt – McKinley Peebles Friends Of Old Time Music (Disc 2) 18. I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister – Tillman Cadle Songs for Political Action 19. 11 Cent Cotton 40 Cent Meat – Bob & The Boys Songs for Political Action 20. Pretty Boy Floyd – Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads Now we listen to music like Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Rap, and Country. ==

Sasa Miladinovic & Naomi Semb- Lovejoy
Can you imagine what your life would be like during the Great Depression? The differences from the 1930s and now, what would you do? Where would you go? For most, it is difficult to imagine what life during the Great Depression was like.

During the Great Depression, unemployment rapidly grew from a shocking 5 million in 1930 to an almost unbelievable 13 million by the end of 1932. Many countries were part of the Great Depression during the 1930s, but America suffered the greatest. Women didn't have the rights to work, and fathers were the only ones able to work. Unfortunately, many lost their jobs and became unemployed. Day by day, unemployed fathers watched their children get hired to work in factories. By 1939, 2.25 million girls and boys who were between the ages 10 through 18 were working in factories. Kids that were below the age limit to work in factories, became employed at farms. Kids had to drop-out of schools to work, in order to support their families.

During the Great Depression, many families tried very hard to keep their houses. In order to keep their houses they took in boarders and bartering. Another thing they had to do was stretch every dollar. This means that they had to get as much as they can with the money that they have, and the money they had was very limited.

Megan K.
The Great Depression didn't just affect the jobs and cars everyone had it changed what kids did. Children mainly played some type of sport than played with toys. In the 1930's, around the time the Great Depression hit, kids mainly played a sport called baseball. Double A Baseball was huge for the people of the Great Depression mainly because, it was free to go watch, and it was something to do to pass the time. Children then got into the sport of baseball mainly, and rarely played with toys. Though, that did not mean parents no longer went out and bought toys for their children. Parents and caretakers just bought less because of the costs. Also, the fact that during the Great Depression, not many people had a job, so they didn't have the money.

Games children and families played in the 1930s, would most likely be Monopoly, Sorry and Scrabble. Suggesting that Monopoly, Sorry and Scrabble, came out in the 1930's. Card games such as canasta, pinochle, whist and bridge were also a popular way to pass time for people. Other types of games and objects such as, dominoes and puzzles were also a favorite for everyone. The toy Sky Tot Tricycle was manufactured and sold during the 1930's, and was most likely a favorite for every toddler who saw it. Also, for younger girls and those of who collected, in the 1930's the first movie character to be made into a doll was Scarlett O'Hara from the movie, Gone With the Wind. So little girls who saw the doll, was a 'must have' for them. The 3-D View Master was another favorite for little kid because of the different, funky scenes you could flip through in those fake binoculars. The 3-D View Master is something that's still made today, and six year olds are still amazed with it.

What children play with in 2010, may not seem overly different from what kids played with during the 1930's and Great Depression. Kids still are into playing baseball today, but now, different sports such as, basketball and football, are other interests for kids to play these days. Also, there isn't much of a main sport every child wants to play, like there was during the Great Depression. Kids most likely wanted to play baseball out of every other sport during the Great Depression, but now, children have a bigger veriety of sports to play, and their options aren't so limited.

Younger boys and girls today, still have a love for cute, fake, stuffed animal toys, such as the children in the 1930's. Also, there's a huge difference in toys children play with now a days, and what a child played with in the 1930s. There are new electronic toys being made and created. A toy such as, Fisher Price's Tickle Me Elmo, a toy that both moves and makes noise. A Tickle Me Elmo is something that toddlers would fight over in the store to get in 2009, were something like a Tickle Me Elmo was nonexistent in the time of the Great Depression in the 1930's. Also an object from today, such as an XBOX 360, was a world away from the 3-D View Master binoculars that was a favorite in the 1930's. The XBOX 360 isn't just used to play some addictive game, but it's also capable of being used to interface with others from three blocks away, or across the world. The 3-D Master binoculars, you pressed a button, and a new picture would switch into your vision. No matter when the toy was created, or were it's being used, children have always been fascinated by the entertainment of toys.

Matt D.
During the 1930's there were many choices for entertainment, whether it was Snow White or a super hero. Most children liked to listen to the radio with "Little Orphan Annie". Little Annie was a brave detective child with a wild imagination. She also had her pet dog, along with her. Her name was and Sandy, she helped solving the mysteries with Annie. All the fans of Annie's would buy pins, books, watches, and other top secret detective things.

The adults liked the movie, __Gone With the Wind__, a Civil War romance story, with //The King of Hollywood//, Clark Gable! Also there was Shirley Temple, known for her blonde ringlets and her ability to sing and tap dance Shirley Temple became a favorite celebrity in 1934 when she first stared in the following: __Now and Forever__, __Little Miss Marker__, and __Bright Eyes__. By the end of the year she received an Academy Award, and was declared a favorite for the whole family! By the end of the decade, one of the first color motion pictures was released. __The Wizard of Oz__ made it's screen debut in 1939.

The inventions of the 1930s are commonly used today. In 1930, Warner Brothers made the very first all talking and all color wide screen movie called "Song of the Flame". Mail had started to cross the Atlantic Ocean. As of 1933, Scotch Tape was put on shelfs by the 3M company. The Volkswagen Beetle was one of the most best selling cars ever produced. It's roots are from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. It was created by Ferdinand Porsche and his chief designer Erwin Komenda. The car was made until 2003. The electric razor was made in the USA by Jacob Schick in 1931. The helicopter was made in 1936 by Heinrich Focke in Germany. The jet engine, which is a lot now, was invented by Frank Wittle in 1930 in England. the Radio Telescope was made by Karl Jansk in 1932 in USA. On January 13, the first Mickey Mouse comic strip was published in the New York Mirror. Ub Iwerks produced the first Color Sound Cartoon in 1930. A Flip the Frog cartoon called "Fiddlesticks."
 * Sara B. **

Serina M.
===As you may all know the Great Depression was a horrible past that people in America went through. The prices of things were very different and from the 1930's and now. These were just some prices of foods and clothes in the 1930's and now. ===