You are correct Bob. Forgot about the time-line differential.
I'm not the only one to have noticed it. Consider this:
"People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long, but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."
Page six of Chapter One – Harper Lee, "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Published in 1960, but based on her memories of events occurring in 1936.
It was a time when time moved more slowly, the way I remember it too.