https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx en-us 2018-02-16 10:15:13 UTC 2025-11-24 10:52:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233249796 Before the crash, Edward family was in good economical situation because his father was an investor.
During the Great Depression, the well situation turned into a tragic one.
His father lost much money, because of the failure investments and he couldn't find a new job because he was deaf.
In order to get over the situation, they all learned to do sweeping brooms and they started selling them around the city.
Edward thought that their situation wasn't as bad as the one of the other, until he found a letter addressed to his grandmother where his father asked for financial help.  ]]> 2018-02-20 13:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233249796 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233278827 Before the crash, Ernestine McMillan Hilton and all her family lived in a country shack. They were farmers and thanks to her father and her grandfather they moved in bigger house.
With the Great Depression, they were forced to leave their big house first and their country shack in a second moment. Ernestine left school because teachers weren't paid. The bank failed and new managers wouldn't loan money, so their cattle was actioned off by the bank.
They were helped by their neighbors, that bought their cattle and gave it back to them. They were also helped by grandmother's money.]]> 2018-02-20 14:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233278827 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233315822 Before the crash, Henry Hager, his two brothers and his mother (single) lived in a house under rent. They were part of lower middle class and lived in a poor area.
Their situation was very complicated and the Great Depression increased their problems.
Living conditions, in their condominium, worsened considerably with the overcrowding of housing and the abundant presence of alcoholics (unemployed).]]> 2018-02-20 15:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233315822 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233337792 Before the crash, Lawrence Brown's family sold watermelons and corn. They were self-sufficient in food because they had livestock. With The Great Depression nobody could afford their goods so they sent them to Chigago's Market, but they weren't paid back. Furthermore they got a call from the railroad company wanting them to pay the freight. They did have nothing to speak of, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, neither radio or telephone. One night someone had broken into their house and stolen all their food.]]> 2018-02-20 15:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233337792 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233354351
Fran Suddah tells that with the crash of Wall Street her father lost his job of accountant and her family was forced to move to another city, but her father still did not find work for the next 5/6 years, while her mother never worked. She and her sister continued to go to school despite the difficult economic situation and saw that their classmates also had the same problems. Parents never talked about money and their lack in her presence, she only knew that she could not have new things; only by growing up did she understand the difficult situation in the past.

]]> 2018-02-20 16:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233354351 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233376745 Before the crash, Roda and her family lived in a two-family house in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She remembers that well-dressed men walked in the streets near where her father had a factory. Infact her father owned a chemical company but during the Great Depression he fired his employees, both the workers and the salesman. So his father went out during the day to try to get orders for his plumbing and heating products and worked during the night with the help of an other worker. Despite this difficult period her mother continued to collect clothes and shoes for a refugee family. Roda learned to be conservative in her spending thanks to this period, in particular since when she didn't receive any presents for her birthday]]> 2018-02-20 16:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233376745 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233381118 Before the crash, Judith Crist and her family were very rich and they lived in some beautiful houses with servants. Her father was a rich fur trader. During the Great Depression they lost all of their houses and all of their servants. They moved from Canada to New York in search of assistance. They lived in her mother's family house, a very small one-bedroom apartment. She proposed her father to became a milk man to earn some money, but her father worked as a salesman.]]> 2018-02-20 17:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233381118 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233402958 Gladys Hoffman and his brother Robert tell the situation during the great depression. Their father never put his money in the bank; he stored it in a strongbox in the fruit cellar. This is the most important thing because not putting money in the bank save his family. He also help the other people the were in a difficult situation. Everybody in that period realized that they were in the same boat and the spirit of helping out was the thing that save them]]> 2018-02-20 17:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233402958 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233513767 Patricia was a young girl from Boston, she grew up with his father, an immigrant from Ireland. He was a headwaiter of an exclusive club. He took her child to downtown in order to show poor people that lived in street in very difficult way: with no house, money and neither good clothes, in fact they slepton benches, wore dirty clothes with holes on it. After the Great Depression poor people started to ask food to clubs, shops and houses. Patricia's father helped them, feed them on the porch and talked to them. He believed that people didn't appreciate what they had got untill they lost it.]]> 2018-02-20 20:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233513767 https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233535375 Before the crash he bought a farm with the money of his insurance policy. During the Great Depression the family renters lands and some rooms to other family, helping the poorest people. The children went to school and the bigger one, finished the school, started to work to pay his brother's school. They were lucky.]]> 2018-02-20 21:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elenafp1972/lfp0uixz7nwx/wish/233535375