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A Great Depression Christmas dinner of cabbage, potatoes, and pie in the home of Earl Pauley, near Smithfield, Iowa, 1936.






"Baby it's Cold Outside...." So ya think you have it bad.... this is a Woman/Mother in West Virginia, 1937 going outside in her front yard.. in freezing weather...with pick... and digging/chopping just to gather coal to heat her home.. Makes me glad we have central heat and air.


Tokyo is the largest and the most populated city on earth: the latest estimates indicate that more than 37 million people live there.


"Magnetic tape was first developed in the 1930s in Germany, and after the war the technology was taken to America by Jack Mullin and developed commercially by Ampex with investment from Bing Crosby. The first commercial tape recorder (the Ampex Model 200) was released in 1948."